A brilliant little competitor to the GoPro but at a much better price!

After deciding to pick up an action camera for my up coming holiday, I purchased the Xiaomi Yi due to the constantly impressive products that are produced by Xiaomi. The camera arrived in a plain but stylish brown cardboard box, with a quick start guide printed in Chinese, however this is not an issue as this camera is very easy to use, more on that later. The first thing you will notice about this camera is its impressive build quality, all the buttons feel solid when pressing and give both an audible hardware click and software beep when pressing, giving no mistake that you are taking stills or capturing video, the camera also has three LEDs to report on the status that can be seen when the camera is housed in a waterproof case. One slight issue is that the LEDs can be a little hard to see in sunlight. The camera is also very lightweight. The camera can also be controlled via WiFi using the Android or iOS application, it also offers a live viewer (which makes up for the lack of screen) and also a way to change the setting of the camera, for example, then powering up the camera it is set to take still photos, the application will allow you to set the default to video, it also (via a firmware update) enables the option to start the camera recording video when it plugged into a power source, making it ideal for a car cam. The camera is capable of taking a 64GB MicroSD card which in my tests I ample storage (it is also useful keeping multiple cards with you, or using the WiFi application to delete or download videos or photos). There is also a Micro-HDMI output, this is a feature I have yet to test. Operation of the camera is very simple, after powering on the device the red LEDs (when is video mode) will stay on when ready, pressing the button on the top of the camera will and the LEDs will flash, to stop recording, press the top button again, very simple. Overall this is a truly excellent action camera, and the minor issues I have encountered can easily be overlooked to the price. If you are looking for an action camera you cannot go wrong with the Xiaomi Yi.Read full review

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