Master Lu, a smartphone benchmarking platform from China, has released the list of best smartphones for the first half of the year 2019. The list is led by Huawei P30 smartphone. Master Lu has also released other lists such as top 10 best performing smartphones, top 10 chipsets and top 10 mobile phone UI.

Huawei P30 has acquired 157.28 points to gain the first position in Master Lu’s top 10 best smartphone. The second place Nubia Red Magic Mars smartphone with 154.88 points. The OnePlus 7 Pro is placed on the third position with 150.54 points. The Honor V20, Huawei P30 Pro, Nubia X, OnePlus 7v, Xiaomi Black Shark 2, Meizu 16s and OPPO Reno Z are the devices that have made it to Master Lu’s list of best smartphones for first half of 2019.

The top list of best performing smartphones in the starting six months of the year has Nubia Red Magic 3 at the pole position with 459,463 points. Black Shark 2 is the second place with 425,758 points and the OnePlus 7 Pro is placed third with 413,669 points. The other phones in Master Lu’s best performing smartphones list are OnePlus 7, Samsung Galaxy S10+, OPPO Reno 10x Zoom, Vivo iQOO Monster Edition, Xiaomi Mi 9 Transparent Edition, Lenovo Z6 Pro and Meizu 16s.

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Master Lu’s top 10 list of chipsets for first half of 2019 has Snapdragon 855 mobile platform in the first position. It is followed by Snapdragon 845 (2.96 GHz) and another SD845 variant (2.8 GHz). The Kirin 980 chipset is on the fourth position followed by Samsung’s Exynos 9810 and Exynos 8895 chipsets. Snapdragon 835, Snapdragon 730, Snapdragon 712 and Snapdragon 710 chipsets have respectively occupied seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions in the list.

Next comes the list of top 10 mobile phone UI which is led by Hydrogen OS by OnePlus followed by Joy UI on Black Shark gaming phones. The Nubia UI, EMUI by Huawei, Flyme by Meizu have made it to the top five. MIUI by Xiaomi ranks sixth, Smartisan OS is on seventh, ColorOS by OPPO is placed on eighth, One UI by Samsung is on ninth and Xperia UI by Sony is on tenth position.

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A recent listing on Jingdong (JD.com) for the Mi 9 Transparent Edition brought to light the need to properly check if the memory variant on offer for any smartphone officially exists. The Mi 9 Transparent Edition was listed with an 8GB+128GB variant but the Mi 9 Transparent edition is only available in 8GB+256GB and 12GB+256GB memory variants.

The error was spotted by a netizen who reached out to Xiaomi‘s product director Wang Teng-Thomas to find out if such memory variant existed. The product director revealed that the Mi 9 Transparent edition with 8GB+128GB storage wasn’t produced. But then, the model was listed with a price tag of 3359 yuan, lower than the 3999 yuan price for the 8GB+256GB variant. Except Xiaomi is working on the 128GB storage variant, the listing could be fraudulent. Even the 3999 yuan price for the 256GB variant is higher than that on Xiaomi’s official website where the 8GB+256GB variant of the Mi 9 Transparent version is listed for 3699 yuan. Our check reveals the option to select 8GB+128GB variant for the Mi 9 Transparent Edition has been disabled.

The Mi 9 is Xiaomi’s flagship for 2019. It has an 8GB+128GB variant, as well as 6GB+128GB. The Transparent version is available in 8GB+256GB and 12GB+256GB memory.

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Xiaomi has today announced a new version of the Mi 9 TransparentEdition. The new version comes with 8GB of storage and 256GB of storage and has a slightly cheaper price tag than the original model. The Mi 9 Transparent edition was initially announced with 12GB RAM and 256GB storage.  This 8GB RAM version is 300 yuan cheaper, priced at 3699 yuan ($550).

The mi 9 Transparent version with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage is presently on pre-sale with shipping billed to commence in a distant 3 weeks instead of the 7 days shipment Xiaomi was implementing.  At the moment, pre-orders are no longer accepted as visitors complain of getting the “out of stock” message when they attempt to pre-order it online. Offline pre-sale is said to be ongoing successfully via Mi Home stores in China.

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The Mi 9 Transparent Edition is Xiaomi’s first phone with 12GB of RAM. This new 8GB RAM variant expands the available options buyers have to choose from. Xiaomi may even expand the variants further to include 6GB RAM or more storage options like 128GB. But the company has to deal with making the device available first.  Even though the Mi 9 Transparent edition shares the same 6.39-inch AMOLED display with the regular Mi 9, it has a different design at the back, thanks to its see-through glass. Also, its 48MP rear camera has an f/1.47 aperture and a 7P lens.

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Xiaomi‘s latest models, specifically the Mi 9 SE and Mi 9 Transparent Edition were scheduled to go on sale in China on Thursday, March 14 2019. But in the dying minutes, the Chinese company cancelled the sales. In an announcement made on its official sales platform, the Chinese tech giant cited insufficient stock as the reason for the cancellation of what would have been the second round of sales since the models were launched.

Xiaomi’s products are usually highly sought after. Besides, the company recently admitted that its production process needed to be streamlined in order to ramp up available stock. The company recently disclosed that it was embarking on in-house training in order to boost production. Xiaomi’s CEO had even assured fans that he would personally handle the screwdriver to participate in the process of assembling the smartphones so that there would be adequate stock. Apparently, we are yet to start seeing the result of these moves.

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It is possible that Xiaomi is trying to avoid a situation where only about 200,000 units will be available and the models will be out of stock only seconds after going on sale. The company has apologized to fans and did hint that all staff on its production line are doing their best to get enough units ready for the next sales. The models will go on sale again on March 19 which is just a couple of days away.

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When Xiaomi launched the flagship Mi 8 last year, what stood out was theLimited Explorer edition with a transparent glass back that seems to show the internal components. Well, that was later clarified that the components which are on display at the back aren’t exactly those of the Mi 8 but a dummy. That revelation did not in any way affect the level of interest the version commanded. But unfortunately, it was just a limited edition and so was never commercialized. Instead, Xiaomi launched the Mi 8 Pro with a similar design. Just a few days back, Xiaomi announced the Mi 9 and along with it came the Mi 9 Transparent edition.

The Mi 9 Transparent edition looks very much like the regular Mi 9, save for the design of the rear panel. The device packs a huge 6.39-inch AMOLED display with a water-drop notch at the top. The display is further protected by a sixth-generation Gorilla glass cover. At the rear side is where most of the beauty resides. The phone comes with the  USB Type-C interface with speaker grills on both sides of the port. Xiaomi also left out the 3.5mm audio jack on this one. The glass rear panel’s design is very similar to the Mi 8 Explorer edition. Thus it shows a dummy Motherboard with Qualcomm’s logo and wireless charging coil. Another thing is the red accent on the first camera sensor as well as the dedicated button on the left side. 

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As for the internals, the Mi 9 Transparent Edition comes with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Its primary 48MP camera also has an aperture size of f/1.47 and has a 7P lens. 12GB of RAM is huge but thankfully, the size of the phone doesn’t have to be as big as the dummy Mi 9 transparent edition in the picture above. Just kidding. Meanwhile, you can check out our compilation of the Mi 9 Transparent version in hands-on pictures from below.

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