6 Reasons Why The Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer Is Just A Glorified Apple iPhone X

1. The Design

As it is normal, we’ve always known Xiaomi to strictly copy every thing that apple does, but in the case of the Explorer, they were not just copying, they were rebuilding.. “Oh God, why do i still keep using the word copy?”. So placing the Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer side by side with the iPhone X without their logos, you might have a pretty hard time telling which is which, because these phones are two identical piece, except for the Mi 8 Explorer flaunting that its new cool transparent back that’s gonna make other phone manufacturers jealous for the next few months.

2. A Real iPhone X Like 3D Face Unlock That Works Using Dedicated Hardware (Face ID)

So like i said in my previous post, the Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer is the first android smart that have made something meaningful out of the notch.. yea you heard that right.

Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer Infrared Face Unlock

So instead of just putting a notch there because you felt you needed one because that’s what trending, what xiaomi did was quite different, with the Xiaomi’s Mi 8 Explorer’s notch, you’d get a real working face unlock feature that works using a dedicated infrared lens and infrared lighting to make sure the face unlock doesn’t get fooled using a picture of you, and also to make sure it gets unlocked even in the darkest of environments, remember the iPhone X Face ID now right.

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3. A Real 3D iPhone Like Animoji

So the Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer also got all those fancy animated emoji stuff of which we don’t know its name for now, so for now let’s just refer to it as Xiaomi’s own version of the Apple iPhone X Animoji.

So instead of doing the normal 2D Animoji that all android OEMs are doing, people like the Samsung’s Galaxy S9 AR Emoji, Xiaomi chose to adopt the iPhone X like animoji which even has a very striking resemblance to what you’d get on the iPhone X.

4. Xiaomi’s Photo Studio Lighting Which Is Nothing Short Of The iPhone X’s Portrait Lighting

Even from the name, you can sense the resemblance already “Studio Lighting and Portrait Lighting“.

So Xiaomi, with the Mi 8 Explorer, also stole Apple iPhone X’s portrait lighting feature, and renamed it to Studio Lighting, and they are basically much the same thing. And in case you know what studio or portrait lighting is, it is simply a fancy photo feature that skillfully crops out the background from a photo and changes its lighting effect to whatever color you like.

5. Swiping Navigation Gestures

So alongside the new Xiaomi Mi 8 phones, xiaomi launched a new version of its iconic MIUI, the MIUI 10 version. So with the latest version, you’d get a couple of some new sweet features of which one of them is Swiping Navigation Gestures. So with the new MIUI, Xiaomi has finally ditched the native button navigations and have switched to complete swiping motion. Like swipe up to go to home screen, swipe left from the edge of the screen to go back and many other swiping swiping.. Although these swiping exercises might not really look exactly what you’d get on the iPhone X, but it is safe to safe to say that they were inspired by it.