The Xiaomi Mi A1 is an excellent device for its price – decent hardware, a good camera and stock Android, making it the perfect smartphone to represent Google’s Android One vision.
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Pure Android at a fair price. The Xiaomi Mi A1 is the European version of the Mi 5X. Equipped with LTE band 20 and Android One, for a low price, it offers not only regular and timely security updates, but also a 2-year update warranty on the security...
The combination of Android One optimisation and good quality hardware means the Mi A1 punches way above its weight: it's comparable to phones costing twice as much. The main disadvantage isn't the phone, but the phone company: Xiaomi's presence in the...
The Xiaomi Mi A1 offers stock Android and a dual-camera setup for under £200, making its minor omissions easier to stomach. This is the phone with which the Android One initiative should have...
The Mi A1's clutter-free, Android One-certified experience combines elegantly with tried and tested hardware, while the dual-camera capability gives you a premium feel on a budget. Xiaomi ticks all the right boxes with this affordable but feature-rich...
With a premium metallic build coupled with an intuitive stock experience under the Android One program, the Mi A1 has turned out to be the top contender in the budget smartphone segment. The average camera performance and delayed Oreo update are the two...
Xiaomi's Mi A1 offers impressive hardware and software at a low price, making it one of the breakout mid-tier phones of the year.The $349 smartphone punches above its weight, with features like dual rear cameras, an all-aluminium body and a Snapdragon...
We're big fans of Xiaomi phones, but have been frustrated by MIUI on many an occasion. The Mi A1 and Mi 5X are to all intents and purposes the same phone, except one runs Android One and the other MIUI 8.5. That's huge news: at last we have a Xiaomi...
There is no shortage of affordable Android phones. ZTE and Motorola are bombarding the low end market with sub-$200 phones, but the trade off is an always-present compromise, whether it's a cheap build or bloated software, you get what you pay...
Xiaomi is a tech company with an amazing background. What started boldly in China 6 years ago as a software house, providing a heavily modified Android version called MIUI, has now evolved into a global tech giant. She is fourth in China and fifth...
Xiaomi has always been a name associated with phones that undercut the similar-performing competition in terms of price, and we see it happening here again with the Mi A1. And there is more to the Xiaomi Mi A1 than just the competitive price.To start...