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Mi Key :detailed review

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Few Months back xiaomi released a very interesting and useful teeny tiny gadget MiKey!!! How this can't be the part of my xiaomi collection ;) so i buy it along with some other accessories. Its so cheap (5 RMB-less than a US Dollar).

It makes your phone more useful and gives you an extra highly customizeable button in the place of Head Phone jack. Its also have a sleave which comes in different colores and can be snaped to headphone wire to avoid misplacing the MiKey when its not in use.

This is how MiKey looks like (More Pictures at the bottom of the post)

Mikey inside the sleeve (More colors are available for sleeve)

MiKey with Xiaomi Piston headphones

This button can be used for
Take pictures
Start Video recording
Turn On the Tarch
Start Audio recording
Scan 2D Code
Make a call to a slected number
Send a particular SMS to a selected number
Open folder of 4 selected apps
Launch any App from the phone.

Also there are few system toggle settings which can also directly be applied by the clicks of the button.

System toggle settings
Screen shot
Screen Rotation
Kill all Tasks
Phone Lock
Home
Silent Mode toggle

Thats pretty long list is'nt it ????; But how many of these can be used at the same time ? 10 of any of these functions can be used at the same time

So there are 10 number of clicks which can be configured

For example
Single Click -> Take a picture
Double Click -> Open QQ Mobile app
Tripple Click -> Call Home Number

and so on upto ten clicks

Oh I forgot to mension that in order to use and configure the MiKey you need to install a free app from xiaomi app store namee MiKey (米建, mijian). This App is in chinese but there is also a translated version of the app (Mikey English) @xiaomi.eu . There is also an other app english app Klick which can be downloaded from playstore. This app aslo work with Mikey but functionality is a little different.

Some people might have problem with the mutiple click interval and phone might be miscalculating your number of clicks but you can fix this problem by opening MiKey App then Settings (Top right corner) and then changing the clicks interval to your liking.

MiKey Functionality when phone is locked/screen is off

Even when phone is locked it can still take pictures (older pictures are not visible so no security breach)
turn ON the torch
But most of the other function you need to unlock phone by yourself

So here are some picture of the MiKey to give you the idea of the look and size of the device.

The MiKey Envelope
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The MiKey Size Comparison
4

I have Both (actually Three ;) ) types of xiaomi Piston head phones so here you can see how MiKey sleeve can snap to the different headphones. Because of the white color of the sleave it really look great with the white piston head phones.