Affordable Flagship Face-Off: Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 vs OnePlus 5 vs Nokia 8

In the league of flagships, the China-based smartphone maker OnePlus had introduced the OnePlus 5 in June this year, taking the spotlight away from Samsung and other high-end smartphones in the market. Just one month later, it had good competition in the name of Nokia 8 by HMD Global. Now, Xiaomi has launched its most expensive flagship smartphone in the country – the Mi Mix 2 (first impressions).

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On paper, the Mi Mix 2 comes with some powerful specs but when stacked against each other, which one of these three smartphones will come out as a winner? Let’s find out.

Display and Design
Starting off with the Mi Mix 2, the handset comes with a bezel-less 5.99-inch IPS LCD display with Full-HD+ resolution and features a full ceramic body carved out of 7-series aluminium alloy. The OnePlus 5 does not come with a bezel-less display but bears an uncanny resemblance to the iPhone 7 Plus with its 5.5-inch Full-HD display and a fingerprint sensor doubling as the home button. Just like the OnePlus 5, the Nokia 8 comes with a unibody metal design and sports a 5.3-inch Quad-HD IPS display encased within the thick top and bottom bezels.

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Hardware

All the three phones pack the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC under the hood, that is also found in high-end flagships like the Samsung Galaxy S8. Storage-wise, the Mi Mix 2 offers 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage and there have been rumours about an 8GB variant which may or may not make an appearance in the Indian markets. The OnePlus 5 processor is paired with either 6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage or 8GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. Meanwhile, Nokia 8 only comes with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of inbuilt storage.