Xiaomi Mi 9T Deals & Offers

I've had mine a few days now. Upgraded from a Redmi Note 5 Pro, doesn't feel a huge upgrade if I'm honest, but its nice none the less. My only criticism is that the in screen fingerprint reader is very hit and miss, at least for me. I much prefer a rear mounted one that is infinitely more responsive.

Life's tough sometimes, so many phones to choose from.

No mate, still contemplating.

Same here, no need of larger capacity handsets

Yeah, $265.99

MrSwitch: No mate, just commenting on colour I would choose. Agree on boring phone colours, designs, fancy that crazy jazzy note 10+

No mate, just commenting on colour I would choose.

So this over the mate 20 X? Feeling like a switch up?

Wow, yeah I doubt you'll be disappointed for the price! :)

This or the refurb mate 20 pro?

There has never been an Xiaomi phone that has successfully had extra bands unlocked, whether it's by messing with the Qualcomm QCN tools or flashing roms, the hardware is different, not going to happen, occasionally people claim it has but proof never materialises. Band 20 is used by all networks afaik (except a few MVNO's) and most use it for VoLTE which can make a huge difference to your coverage, I'd personally never get a phone/network without it again.

I'd actually already removed the comment about my work as on reflection Its not relevant. Many people on here know I've worked for (and still do) some of the worlds largest computer corp's supporting large enterprise IT......but to be honest working in IT has little relevance to Mobile hardware... You are quite right about NFC, my previous reply was badly worded regarding NFC. The NFC chip is part of the SD855 SoC so it's quite likely it can be enabled yes, I wouldn't expect even teamwin recovery is needed, you can probably just download a Dev rom direct from Xiaomi and flash it and it will enable the NFC chip as I believe the India market version of the K20 Pro does have NFC enabled Flash away all you want though but a K20 Pro will never have Band20 though..... I hope that your K20 Pro gives you the 4G coverage you want, and it turns out to be a great handset for you.... on some networks lack of Band20 is not much of an issue but please don't tell people that the K20 Pro and Mi 9T Pro are the same....they aren't. Many people need Band20 and I'd hate people to buy a phone from a Chinashop, find it doesn't do what they need and not be able to return it. Think about it, if they were the same it would be a whole lot cheaper to just release the K20 Pro globally......I don't claim to know why Xiaomi do this, why they can't release a single handset for all markets...but they aren't the only ones who do this.... I can only speculate that perhaps it's something to do with licensing from Qualcomm, really not sure but intrigued to know why if anyone does know.

1998 i properly started becoming an IT Technician, I'm 46, but got into computers when i was at school aged 11,so let's not get into a boasting discussion thanks! Getting back to the point, how do you know this exactly? Nobody has even got their hands on the Mi 9T rom yet to try to see whether it works on the K20 pro, so that's put that theory to bed, until they release it, someone has the chance to install it and find out first. The NFC, as i said on one of my MANY replies, you have to read the reviews on that seller's page, because i read at least one person who was outside of Asia that said it was working after they installed a rom for it, I've now found the thread, on the xda forums, and one poster said that they used TWRP to install the xiaomi.eu rom and it fixed it, here I thought that you have 25 years of experience, no? Did you forget how to use a browser search? :/ What have you been doing for 25 years then?

Nope....someone's told you a porky.... Xiaomi Asia market models never have Band 20, they always later release a Global version with Band 20 ...not a Global Rom, a Global version....(A Global Rom is just a multi-language version of the software for the same asian market handset... It can't be added via a Rom, Same for NFC, in China NFC is rarely used so the handsets don't have it, they add it to some Global versions but not all. it's not missing hardware, but the config of the SoC and modem's baseband is likely in an encrypted partition that cannot be updated via a simple Rom update. The phone you have bought has no Band 20. This is the very reason people have been waiting for the Global version , the Mi 9T Pro. All of the networks use Band20, but they all use other bands as well, You will find that with no Band 20 on some networks you will not have 4G in many locations (Especially on Three network). The phone will also have very little resale value.... We are all capable of searching AE.com and finding cheap K20's but the reason they rarely get posted here is that people want B20 (800Mhz) so please stop spreading mis-information. Personally If you can still cancel your order I'd do so and order a Mi 9T Pro instead.....you can by these from AE.com as well for just a few ££'s more...Amazon Spain even now have the Mi 9T Pro for around £370

And no, band 20 is not used by all networks at all, I'll say it again, so some research! I've read up on this for a LONG time, so i know all the ins and outs, I'm one of these guys who wouldn't throw my money around for no reason, I'm also a 20+ years of experienced IT Technician too, so it comes as second nature to not do that 😄

I paid an extra £7 for the guarantee delivery and it arrived within a week.

Same situation here.

There's definitely something gone wrong for you. :( That really sucks. I've literally received 2 since you ordered your first one! My first order was 23rd July, and I received it 5th of August. Neither of mine had accurate tracking, though. They just turned up randomly. The first one was left... under my doormat, and the second arrived today with a Royal Mail 48 hour sticker on it. Even when I track both of them now, there's actually no indication that they were even delivered. (:I

I'm still waiting on mine from when I ordered way back on the 18th of July. Tracking from Yodel still states that "your parcel will be with us shortly". I contacted Gearbest regarding the order and they effectively just said that it'll be with me soon and if it's not here in another few weeks to contact them again. It's especially frustrating as at the time the shipping said it would take 5-10 days, I knew I was moving house on the 11th of August and assumed that giving it an extra 2 week window afterwards would be fine. I'm now in my new place and as far as I can tell the phone still hasn't even been sent out for delivery to my old address. Plus I'm getting emails almost daily with new prices for the phone, if I had ordered one last week I'd have saved nearly £50 on what I initially spent.

Just received my second one, took exactly a week (ordered 7th August, arrived 10mins ago). (y)

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who the hell is selling a mi 9t 160

I recently bought a B grade phone from CEX (not this one, it was a Sony Xperia 1). Turns out I got lucky, the phone came in the original box with all the accessories in mint condition! CEX's grading scheme can kinda come down to a luck of the draw I guess...

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Different experiences from different people mate, I've never used BangGood personally thoigh, so I can't comment. That's good news about the letter, keep us updated

Is the MI 9T the same as K20 Pro. Can someone clarify. Or are these 2 different phones...

Thanks very much for the comparison. I'm not a big gamer anyway I'm always more interested in the performance of the OS & apps and from what you say it sounds excellent.

The 9T is very solid for how little it costs. Did a comparison between my brothers Mi 9 and my 9T. I cant really notice anything, both are as fluid as each other and in games I didn't notice any difference either (even the high end ones) The only downside is the lack of a front facing notification light which is a real bummer but hardly any newer phones have them nowadays. Samsung added a screen version to the hole punch alittle while after release that works way better than any third party one. I hope Xiaomi add one to MIUI eventually as-well. I wonder if they have a suggestions email or something....

Really tempted by the 128gb version of this. Reviews suggest that even with the SD730 is very smooth and responsive. The mi9 I ordered from Gearbest on 27/06 is still somewhere in transit around the world and if I don't get any tracking update by this week I may well contact PayPal to sort it and go for this instead.

Thanks. That's great. Appreciate your help.

I don't have the phone to hand to show you but found this article to get rid of the adverts though How to remove ads from Xiaomi phones with MIUI

I also love the multitasking screen. It's a lot easier to navigate than other OS I've used. Android and iOS.

What is weird about that? Makes a lot more sense than the horizontal scrolling on OS's like Huawei's EMUI. I also have a Note 5, and don't see adverts.

Hi Neostar, I recived the phone after 21 days

Just a thought but did you buy other items like a case or screen protector? as judging by the speed I received my phone they must have stock piled certain items in a European warehouse, the thing is it's likely that other items like cases and screen protectors are stocked in China... so if you bought them together as 1 order then you might get a delay

Ordered on the 20th and came on the 6th

Still waiting for mine.

Thanks for the info. I'll check them out :)

I'm rather new to the Android stuff, and I'd read horror stories about launchers eating memory and whatnot. At the minute the apps I don't use are on the furthest page lol. I might just wait for MIUI to bring the app drawer in an update.

Launcher isn't a permanent change. You can switch between MIUI and Nova and others very easily, there's no permanent change. It isn't jailbreaking/rooting/unlocking, it's just a skin that you can alter, but it's absolutely worth the change.

Only minor headache is that Android Auto isn't working yet for some reason. Well documented around the internet, so I know it isn't just me :) Will use Car Play with work phone for now, but a little irksome in the meantime - just in case anyone wondered why it won't work for them!

So HK version, even better. Yeah, they offer 2 year "local" warranty on some items now, though what that entails I've no idea.

I know, right? I also received emails to say it had dispatched, that it was with the courier and also one from the courier advising of the 2 hour time slot it was being delivered. Sounds to me like eGlobal have upped their game. It has a UK plug as well, 18w as well - happy days.

Jeez, that's a good turnaround, Mr Ian B must have had a word :{

My 128GB 9T arrived today from eGlobal. Ordered 22nd July 4.30pm, arrived 10am this morning via Hermes. Who says you wait 12 days from eGlobal, eh?

Just saw this comment - ditto with mine. Most annoying thing is that a mate bought his on 23rd (while I sat smug thinking he was miles behind) and has now received his (took 8ish days)!

I ordered on the 11th, upodated until 18th with 'arrived at airport'. After about 2.5 weeks of this I contacted GB and they admitted that the order was lost by the carrier... Have reshipped one now with a different tracking code (starting MN) that appears to have not been scanned yet as gives 'package not found'. Lets hope that 2nd time round we can get a bloody phone out of this! If others have also had no update in several weeks perhaps it was a whole batch mislaid?

Really sorry to hear that, glad to hear they are sorting it out for you

Got this email/ticket from them yesterday - We are extremely sorry to inform you that the delivery has failed. The parcel was lost during transportation. Unfortunately, in cases like this the shipping company is responsible for the loss. As a gesture of good will we can offer 3 solutions to resolve the issue: 1) Resend your order out immediately 2)Refund your parcel in full to your wallet. The money will be in your Gearbest account with extra points within 1 business day. 3)Refund your parcel in full to your original payment account. Have asked for option 1 and they have responded saying they will ship it out. What a pain, hopefully will get it in the end though!!

I have a feeling this may have happened to some people. I also ordered screen protectors (tried them all none lay flush properly with the screen they bubble up around the edges) and a few cases. This came in a separate package much later and delivered although not stated on tracking.

Wireless charging ? ,My 12 year old lass wants to "inherit" my Mi Mix 3 for her birthday next month so have wireless chargers everywhere (Home , work, bedroom) so looking for a replacement that has wireless charging........

They have no stock, I think it said stock between 11th and 15th.

Great price, but I ordered one from Gearbest (£255) almost a week ago and it has not even been shipped yet (despite having asked twice for it to be dispatched more quickly). Don’t hold your breath

It gets to a point where you are waiting and waiting and you never get to enjoy new tech. Phones nowadays are powerful enough to do whatever you want. The 730 vs 855 is obviously no match when it comes to benchmark scores but when it comes to real world testing, the difference is so negligible in all areas, that it's irrelevant for the time being. Hoping for a deal on the 128GB at the weekend....fingers crossed!

They normally don't confirm things that far in advance. The Mi 9T EEC certification< was early April but it wasn't officially announced until the end of May and then it was launched a fortnight later.

Cheers, expired. For the 15 of you who ordered (there was no buyers before I posted this here) enjoy (y)

1.99 now ;(

Black with mine too but I ordered the one here for 99p as I find the black a bit slippy. Hot

The case that came with mine is loads better than those clear bendy ones, the I got was black and rigid

The 9T doesn't, its a black clip on.