1999 yuan! Xiaomi once used this phone to dry up Samsung HTC

Two days ago, Xiao Lei saw Lei Jun send a Weibo and briefly reviewed Xiaomi twelve years ago.

At that time, Xiaomi's logo was still a combination of Chinese characters + English, the design style was simple and unpretentious, and the number of companies was only about a dozen people.

Who would have imagined that such a small company could develop into today's mobile phone giant, and even win the second place in global sales at its peak.

In retrospect, Xiaomi can have today's achievements, inseparable from its early explosion of peers in the cost performance and playability of the Android custom system MIUI.

It can even be said that MIUI is Xiaomi's earliest entrepreneurial product, which was widely praised as soon as it was launched, attracting the attention of many enthusiasts in the machine circle.

At that time, many old brothers who loved to engage in machines, the first thing to get a new machine was to unlock BootLoader + brush MIUI ROM.

For no other reason, MIUI is rich in functions and very easy to use, which is simply a dimensionality reduction for native Androids that were not yet functionally mature at that time.

And ah, at that time, MIUI was indeed feverish and open enough, and it was specially adapted for many third-party models.

The system update is also very fast, and Orange Friday is definitely an indelible memory for the majority of fever rice noodles.

Some small partners may wonder why Xiaomi is so selfless and selfless, making ROMs for other manufacturers?

Cough, the reason is very simple, at that time Xiaomi has not yet begun to launch mobile phones, taking the "mobile phone is not sent, the system first" road.

Later, the xiaomi mobile phone was released, and the cost performance of the explosive killing circle was combined with the MIUI with full word of mouth, which officially announced that xiaomi embarked on the road of soft and hard collaboration and became an Internet mobile phone manufacturer.

Today, Xiao Lei plans to take this opportunity to review the classic models of Xiaomi with everyone.

Of course, Xiao Lei will appropriately combine the MIUI version at that time to chat, otherwise it will be too boring to pull the phone.

Xiaomi Mi phone 1

Turning back the clock on August 16, 2011, Lei Jun released Xiaomi's first mobile phone, the Xiaomi Mobile Phone 1, at the Beijing 798 Art Center.

At that time, the domestic mobile phone market was relatively chaotic, and the mobile phones that sold well were basically made by foreign manufacturers.

Manufacturers such as Samsung, LG and Apple are all mixed up in China, and prices are generally high.

The price of three or four thousand makes ordinary people unbearable, and more people use customized low-end Android machines sent by operators.

Wait for more than 2 minutes to start the machine, open the WeChat tactical frame drop, and the used small partners know what it tastes like.

Eh, at this time the sudden emergence of xiaomi mobile phone 1 is very competitive, buddy not only good configuration, but also sold very cheap, just ask you whether to buy or not.

Of course, it may be difficult for new friends to understand how outrageous the configuration of this phone that only sold in 1999 was at that time.

Here is a comparison chart of Lei Jun's press conference, the Samsung Galaxy S2 at that time.

The processor is not top-notch, and the battery is not as big as the Xiaomi mobile phone 1, but the price is sold to 4999 yuan.

The Xiaomi mobile phone 1, which used Qualcomm's strongest MSM8260 processor at the time, became China's first dual-core 1.5G smartphone.

Image source: Short press conference

Even without talking about the processor, other configurations of Xiaomi Mi 1 are also very capable of playing, 1G + 4G royal storage configuration, 4.0-inch large screen.

In human terms, we can buy the same or even better configuration at half the price of the YOUSHANG.

This also made Xiaomi Mi 1 a huge success in the first online sale, and it opened for booking on September 5, 2011, with more than 300,000 units booked in less than half a day.

In June 2012, Lei Jun announced that the shipment of Xiaomi 1 exceeded 3 million units, which not only confused major manufacturers, but also made life difficult for many small cottage factories.

The MIUI on the Xiaomi Mi 1 is not the original version, but the MIUI v3 (based on Android 2.3) that has been optimized after several years of iteration.

You may not be impressed by MIUI v3, because it is essentially on the basis of v1.

Compared with native Android, the biggest change of MIUI v3 is that the drawer desktop is eliminated, reducing the tedious steps for users to open the app.

The icon and clock design also adopted the popular skeuomorphic design at the time, and the brother next door shouted skeuomorphic yyds every day, which was actually not unreasonable.

Compared with the formulaic and serious flat design, the imitation is more recognizable, and at a glance, you can know what this icon is for.

Other system interfaces are also very distinctive, compared to the original Android rough room design, MIUI in the v3 version to achieve distinctive, recognizable and easy to use.

Practical localization features such as "Versatile Themes" and "Dial T9 Search" have been featured in the v3 version.

You can even see some shadows of MIUI v5 from v3, and we will put it later.

Xiaomi Mi 2S

In April 2013, Xiaomi's generation of divine machine - Xiaomi 2S was released, there are many small partners who can't buy Xiaomi 1, that is, from the 2S generation into the pit to become rice noodles.

The reason is very simple, that is, this machine is really easy to use, whether it is hardware or software, this machine is ranked above the level of equilibrium.

The old rules ah, let's first briefly go through the appearance and hardware situation of Xiaomi Mi 2S.

Xiao Lei personally feels that the Xiaomi Mi 2S is one of the few good machines that can take into account the appearance and feel of the machines in that year.

The front of the fuselage is rounded and soft, and the Mi Logo is also placed directly on the upper left, and the recognition of this piece is full.

Turning to the back of the machine, the material is a relatively backward polycarbonate, but the color matching is the classic white that never steps on the pit, forming a "panda color" of black before black and white.

There is a saying that this design is not very outdated when looked at today.

As for the internal hardware configuration, this machine highlighted a "madness" in that year.

It follows the tradition of Xiaomi Mi 1, selling only for 1999 yuan, pulling the price of high-end mobile phones to the level that everyone can afford.

At that time, manufacturers still pursued "running points to be king", and Xiaomi 2S, with the blessing of the Snapdragon 600 processor, ranked in the top three of the Android camp.

Coupled with the combination of 2G +32G memory, not to mention WeChat, mainstream mobile games can run smoothly.

Even in the image part, it was equipped with a 13 million main camera + F2.0 aperture, which was the flagship level at that time.

So, what was the price of other machine emperors with similar configurations at that time?

Don't need us to guess ourselves, Xiaomi made a PPT at the conference to compare, HTC One priced at 4699 yuan.

Samsung Galaxy S4 is more expensive, the price of 4999 yuan makes students hopeless, Xiao Lei was still using the ZTE custom machine sent by the operator at that time...

Even opening a QQ will be stuck for a few seconds, I really don't know how I used it.

Talking about the System of Xiaomi 2S, it is equipped with MIUI v4 from the factory, and it is normal for everyone to be unimpressed, after all, the light of MIUI v5 is too big.

Xiao Lei said that the biggest change in v4 is still integrated into Xiaomi's own cloud services.

The biggest advantage of Xiaomi cloud service is that it can help users synchronize various contacts, albums and SMS data at any time.

This estimate is very familiar to everyone, and cloud services are now the standard features of major domestic manufacturers.

Of course, although the Xiaomi 2S is equipped with the v4 version, it has become the longest maintained mobile phone in the history of Xiaomi because of factors such as strong enough product strength and enough users.

From MIUI v4 maintenance to MIUI 9, Xiaomi Mi 6 has to shout a big brother.

It was also from this time that the openness of MIUI gradually contracted, and by 2015, MIUI stopped adapting to third-party models.

After all, I have a mobile phone to sell, of course, I must combine soft and hard to form my own set of Internet system.

Xiaomi Mi 6

Fast forward to April 2017, the Xiaomi Mi 6 was released.

There is a saying about how to say: "Buy new, do not buy old, unless Xiaomi Mi 6".

The above sentence, after the million meter powder certification, last year Lei Jun had done statistics, there are still 2.15 million users in the use of Xiaomi 6.

So the question is, what is the charm of the Xiaomi Mi 6 that can make the nail households stick to it for several years?

Thinking about it carefully, Xiao Lei feels that it has a lot to do with the stable play of Qualcomm Snapdragon in that year.

Snapdragon 835 is called "a generation of ice dragons" by the motifs, it not only has good performance, power consumption is not high, is a rare good chip.

Although put to this year's point of view, the 835 running score is stretched, passive millions of running points of the Snapdragon 8 leapfrog hanging.

But when it comes to game stability, snapdragon 8 and sanjo 8 may not be able to do 835.

For example, Snapdragon 835 plays king high picture quality can stabilize 60 frames, while this side is several generations ahead of the big brother Sanjo Eight... I understand everything.

Coupled with the small size of the ceramic body, LCD eye protection direct screen, infrared, NFC and asymmetric double Yang blessing, it can be said that it is a very bucket flagship machine.

It is no wonder that there are always rice noodles who hope that the Xiaomi Mi 6 will come out with a re-core replica.

Compared with the emergence of MIUI 5, the MIUI 8 equipped with xiaomi 6 is relatively mediocre.

However, this does not mean that MIUI 8 is not excellent, because since MIUI 6, Xiaomi has made a drastic change in the system design style.

From the original skeuomorphic style to a complete flat, from the notification bar to the various system-level interfaces, you can see the designer's pursuit of flat wind.

In those years, Lao Luo dared to be a head iron monster and moved towards the imitation wind.

Xiaomi Mi 10

The Xiaomi Mi 10 is probably the best year for the meter to rush high.

That year, another generation of god U Snapdragon 865 was born, and it just so happened that the Xiaomi Mi 10 was very balanced in all aspects.

High brush, fast charging, symmetrical double yang, large bottom 100 million pixels, high-quality Samsung screen... The short board we can think of, Xiaomi has made up for it.

At the time of its first sale, the circle generally believed that xiaomi 10 sold expensive, and what "millet is inflated, dare to buy 3999 yuan" remarks emerge in an endless stream.

But when friends successively launched the 865 flagship and sold more expensive, everyone realized that the Xiaomi 10, which originally sold for 3999 yuan, also had a cost performance...

Originally, the Xiaomi 10 series is also very good, the hardware is placed there, and it is a bucket flagship machine.

But soon, a big unlucky thing happened, MIUI 12 precision card point, launched not long after the release of the Xiaomi Mi 10 series.

It is also from here that the experience of Xiaomi mobile phones has become incomparably crotch-pulling, and a new bug is made every day, giving users unlimited freshness.

Now go to the B station to search, you can also search a lot of [Speedcom MIUI 12 Bug] videos, really one than one outrageous...

The follow-up MIUI also launched 12.5 and 12.5 enhancements, but everyone who understands it understands it is essentially a patch for the remaining bugs.

Harm, MIUI 12 victims here, said more are tears.

At last

Looking back at Xiaomi's popular classic models, they are inseparable from good chips and good systems.

Just like the Xiaomi Mi 2S met the S4 pro, the Xiaomi Mi 6 met the Snapdragon 835.

Xiaomi Mi 10 originally had a bright future, but unfortunately, miUI 12 was killed halfway, which destroyed the original good system experience.

Although the follow-up Xiaomi Mi 10 Extreme Commemorative Edition is stacked very fiercely, the screen is really a very obvious shortcoming, and even the video recording has problems.

The Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra was originally a fierce stacking flagship, but it encountered the enthusiastic "three eights".

Sometimes Xiao Lei will think that if the Xiaomi 11 Ultra meets a better chip, it will definitely have a milestone significance for Xiaomi to impact the high-end.

Just like the Mate 20 is to Huawei, the iPhone 6 is to Apple.

But, the truth is, the three strips are pulled.

Well, today's review of the Xiaomi classic model ends here.

In fact, the rice noodles are not high on millet now, and it is very good to optimize MIUI well, those fancy animations, which have the importance of system stability.