2 Screens, 1 Lac 😉 - Mi 11 Ultra Hands On Impressions! 💧💧💧 By C4ETech

So yeah the primary is cool, but now this is the first time we are seeing that on a Xiaomi phone. Now, if you thought all this was cool, the 11 ultra, it has one more trick up its sleeve. Would people pay that much for a Xiaomi, the ultimate android phone? That's what Xiaomi calls the mi 11 ultra. So is it worth that tagline? What makes it ultimate? Is it better than that other ultra, hey guys ash here, you're watching c4 retch and let's see what Xiaomi's been up to? Let's do things a little differently and get the unboxing in a bit. Let's start with what this phone is really about. These cameras to the back.

There are three, and they are kind of sort of what make this phone ultra. So what three cameras? The primary it's a 50 megapixel sensor, the largest on a smartphone, yet at one by 1.12 inches, and it's quite brilliant. It's paired with the f 1.95 lens. I love the images it shoots. There's a lot of detail.

The dynamic range just looks at the sky in the shot and the detail in the shadows. It's pretty impressive, now larger sensors they make for better background, blurring or better both. So there is an obvious subject and background separation. That kind of makes the image look a little better. Now, that's not the only thing a larger sensor does.

It also lets more light in which results in parallel light performance, or it should, as far as I've seen it does on this phone as well. Uh the low light performance seems impressive. As you can see, the lights here are not blown out. The darker areas still have a good amount of detail and the noise levels remain low, so yeah the primary is cool, but the other two sensors they are cooler having a strong primary is something we can take for granted with flagships right. We've come to expect that we see that on almost every flagship, but the other sensors they could sometimes look.

I mean feel like an afterthought. Xiaomi, though, has used a couple of 48 megapixel sensors, not just any 48 megapixel sensors, but the mix 586, a Sony sensor that we've seen on primary cameras on flagship phones from just a little while back and Xiaomi's got that on the secondary, so whether it's the ultra-wide or the periscope zoom, the performance is excellent. Now, let's talk about that periscope zoom for a minute, it adds to the versatility of this setup. It gives you such a wide range uh. Of course, 120x is just typical marketing.

BS, like it is with every brand uh, but this is 50x, 10x, 5x, 2x, regular and ultraviolet. So this to this, that's the range we're getting now once again. Just to reiterate this all the way to this. This is the range we get impressive right. You know what else is impressive.

The fact that Xiaomi lets us shoot a 8k video via all three sensors- we've not seen this before on any other phone, and I can't really wait to play around with the video capabilities of this phone talking about which you know, there's something very insane here: full HD super slo-mo yeah we've seen that before right, but this is 1920 fps, 1920 fps, which believe me it's just nuts. Now, if you thought all this was cool, the 11 ultra, it has one more trick up its sleeve everything. I told you so far. You can also do that with selfies. I know that doesn't mean you've got all these sensors to the front.

It's just that there is a display to the back. This is a tiny one-inc holed screen. It makes using all those optics for selfies a reality. No, it's not just selfies. You can set up this little display to do a lot more.

It can display the clock. There are different clock styles. It can display the date and day battery levels, or you could have any text as a signature. As you can see, there is a lot of granular control. You get to choose the color of the text, the alignment, the text size, the font, weight spacing and a lot more.

I really like how there is a preview here with the cameras and everything you know it gives you an idea of how things are gonna. Look. You don't have to keep flipping the phone back and forth to actually see that, and you can even set a picture here if you want to uh. Well, it's a vanity option, but hey uh, even pinch to zoom works at this point. It's something small, these things uh.

These are nice. Little touches. Xiaomi's attention to detail here is commendable. You get to activate this display with a double tap, and it's got a very short timeout, a max of 30 seconds, so it shouldn't really adversely affect battery life. Now.

The fact that there is so much crammed in here means the camera pump is pretty pronounced. It's one of the largest you're going to come across. Just look at this. Well, the fact that it is spread all the way through the back across the back, and it's not just aligned to one side like with most phones, means hey. This phone does not wobble when you put it down on a surface.

In fact, this camera bump acts almost like a wedge, and it tilts the phone towards you, which could be seen as a positive, but it's still a huge heavy camera bump to the top, which makes this phone a little top heavy, and that is something you can notice when you're using it. It's not just a theoretical detail. I can see this being a dealbreaker for some, but if you can put up with that, the rest, it's very impressive, Xiaomi's gone all out. The back here is ceramic the most premium material they could have used. It still picks up a truckload of fingerprints and adds to the weight and all that, but it does look and feel good to the front you get.

The latest uh corning has to offer gorilla glass thickness for protection, there's even a tiny bit of glass up top adding to the finesse. What you see here is the secondary speaker, so we do continue to get dedicated stereo speakers, Harman Kardon, as the branding indicates well. Xiaomi, has managed to retain the IR blaster, the headphone jack. No such luck for it. There is ip68 water and dust resistance, though now this is the first time we are seeing that on a Xiaomi phone guys.

Personally, I feel this phone is a little too heavy at 234 grams. That's not really anything else for me to say, but even me as somebody who doesn't particularly care for heavy phones, even I can't help but be excited for all the tech that's baked into this camera setup. Now talking about baked in packed in package. I know it's a sad segue, but hey, let's actually get to the unboxing here. This is the box.

It's basically a very small box, and you know why it's small, like we've seen with other Xiaomi phones in the past, there is no charger in the box. This seems to be market dependent because I've seen Mr who's, the boss, get a larger box with the charger and even a headphone adapter, but that seems to be more of a Europe thing talking about different countries, legislations, phones, availability and all that 28mobile. com. That's our sponsor for the video. If there is a phone that you really want to get, and it's not available in your market, 28mobile.

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That is basically the unboxing experience. So we've seen what these cameras have to offer. We've seen the built-in design and the fact that the charge is not included in the box in a lot of markets. Now talking about the charger, this phone supports, 67, watts of wired and wireless charging, Xiaomi claims it can go from zero to 100 in about 35 minutes, wired, 45, minutes wireless, and since this is a solid 5000mah battery, that is perfect. News.

Do note that the 67 watt, you know 467 watts of charging you're going to need to use Xiaomi's proprietary chargers uh, they do sell an 80 watt wireless charger that should support this phone to get the most out of this battery. The display has also been optimized. This is a variable refresh panel. They just maxed everything out. It goes all the way up to 120, hertz and, depending on what you're doing it can kind of drop that refresh the resolution goes all the way up to quad HD plus it's super AMOLED there's support for hdr10, plus ROG vision.

It also happens to be the brightest panel. At the moment, it can go up to 900 nets for regular use, 1700 nits for HDR, which is a few hundred nets over even the galaxy s21 ultra yes, generally Samsung's series displays are usually the benchmark for phone screens and Xiaomi is even out doing that in certain areas. There is a tiny punch hole to the top left here, and this is where you're going to find a 20 megapixel left, 2.2 camera the same, the same setup from the regular me11 and given AMOLED the fingerprint scanner is buried under the display. It's reasonably fast now talking about buried inside what else is inside the chip? No points for guessing it's Qualcomm's flagship, snapdragon, triple eight, it's paired with 12 or 16 gigs of ram. I think, there's even an 8 gig variant.

I will confirm that in the description uh, then there is 256 or 512 gigs of storage, uh, lpddr5, ram, UFS, 3.1 storage, so all top of the line stuff so expect new performance hiccups. Here on the software front, this here is me: UI 12, built on top of android 11 and UI is well me. Why there's nothing new for me to okay? Actually, you know what there is something new for me to talk about with the UI 12. I actually noticed this. While I was testing out the Redmi k40 pro and the same thing happened with the 11 ultra 2.

Meanwhile, it does not allow for gesture control with third-party launchers, so you're going to have to resort to using a navigation bar which feels so 2019 uh, if you want to use, say, launch air launcher or nova for gesture. If you want to use gesture support, then you're going to have to stick with the standard, mini launcher now. Is this only for the Chinese ROM, or is this limitation even going to be applicable for the global or Indian ROMs? I don't know at this point if you have a global or Indian ROM on any phone mini 12.5. That is, please try using navigation gestures with a third-party launcher. Let me know how it turned out in the comments below and that's basically it.

This is the 11. Ultra Xiaomi is expected to price it pretty high in India. Hanuka machine is kind of setting expectations he's committed to a sub one lakh price point uh. As of that's a very normal thing for a Xiaomi phone, basically guys, I don't expect it to be. You know in the higher 90 thousands uh.

If you ask me, I would expect this phone to come somewhere around 80 000 rupees. Now, yes, the European price is uh 1300 euros, which is your know, which indicates a one lakh rupees pricing and that is even higher than the s21 ultra price in Europe, given the s21 ultra sales for one lakh, five thousand or six thousand in India. Yes, you could expect uh higher ninety thousands, but I feel it's still going to be priced around eighty thousand rupees because they've come out and said it will be under a lack which kind of means they're setting expectations so that when they, when they eventually say it's 80 000 uh people are going to be like hey. It's still good value now. Another reason why I say around 80 000 is because in Malaysia, it's selling for what converts to about 78 000 rupees.

So I would be very surprised if this phone uh gets. I mean it comes to India for in the high 90s. Now the big question here is: let's say: even if it's priced in the higher 70s or lower 80 case, would people pay that much for a Xiaomi end of the day? The brand value is something people are. I mean at least buyers in India are very interested in, so it does seem to matter in the Indian market. Are people going to choose this over other phones? Will people pay above 80 000 rupees for a Xiaomi phone that remains to be seen now, I'm going to continue using this phone as my primary for a week, 10 days after which I will come out of my full review and in that video? Let's discuss more about.

If I feel uh, the pricing is justified, we will know the pricing by then and let's take a look at how everything pans out, how the theory converts to actual practical performance. Now, if there is anything in particular that you guys want me to address in the review, leave a comment below and for the 30 or so of you who've made it this far. Thank you. Thank you for your time and if you're not already part of 30 squads, go ahead, hit that subscribe button. Hey you watch this long shouldn't hurt hitting that subscribe button.

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