Mi 11 Ultra Unboxing, Hands-On & Camera Review! By TechTablets

Now that you're, seeing that this particular phone has been getting a lot of hype. This is the 11 ultra finally got my hands on one. This was sent out to me from Xiaomi, so this unit here, why is it getting so much hype? Well, it's packing a lot in terms of spec. There's a huge battery in here very fast charging, 65 watts for both wired and wireless charging, and it will do it in under 40 minutes is impressive and then the cameras, that's where a lot of the hype is being generated. We've got the 50 megapixel with optical image, stabilization the gn2 248 megapixels one's ultra-wide, the other has five times optical zoom, so similar to what we had with the 10 ultra that I reviewed, and I've been so curious to see if just how Xiaomi has stepped things up with this model. Now the screen is also very good on this very impressive 6.81 inches 120 hertz is a 1440p screen super bright as well with well over 1500 nets in the right conditions. That is if it goes into like the sunlight mode.

So in this unboxing and hands-on, I will go into a little of detail. I'll, take a look at this and then at the end, give you my first impressions of just what I think here of the 11 ultra. So exactly what do you get inside the box of the 11 ultra here we've got our type c to type a cable. The charge is 67 watts, and you can also get a 67 watt charger for this one. So it will charge this phone in a very quick time which is under 40 minutes.

They claim 36 minutes and well it's about 39.38 for me, but depends on course, on what level you're charging from sim trade tool right here. There is a type c to 3.5, millimeter adapter great, that they do include this. There is no 3.5 millimeter jack on this one. Unfortunately, that has gone from most flagships. Now is a user guide, warranty card and a CPU case? This one, of course, has a very large cutout for the large camera module that this phone does have.

First thing you notice is: when you get this phone, you take it out of the box that wow it's got a bit of heft to it, that it is chunky, it is heavy 234 grams is their official weight. I measure 236, which is not far off, that thickness wise. It is a thick phone too, so 10 millimeters. The thickness here include that rather chunky camera module. That brings it out then, to 15 millimeters, and you can see that it is very, very large and of course it houses a lot in this.

A lot of techs and a lot of high megapixel counts here. So two 48 megapixel cameras, which is our ultra-wide, the five times optical and then the 50 megapixel camera there. That one has an f, 1.9 aperture two LED flashes, and it looks like it's three, but I'm only seeing two in there and then, of course, a little screen on the back of it. Now this screen, if you double tap, it will come on, you can display other things. It is a color screen.

It is, in fact a band five little screens that is in there, and it's rather handy, and you can use it also as a viewfinder, but just for photos at the moment. No video support with that just yet. So this has a curvature to the edges of it in hand. It does feel quite good, and I'll show you that in screen fingerprint reader, this one is very quick, the animation they're quite fast too. So it's about a second under a second to unlock.

You see when I touch that so really, really quick, no problems with that. Now, the camera right up here, this one you can see- has the cut-out. There's a little punch, hole, 20 megapixels this one right here, and I believe it is f 2.4. The ultra has a middle frame around the outside. Here is our sim tray tool, so it does take two NATO sims, and you can only run one of them at 5g.

If you try and run two at 5g, it will disable the other sim. So it's just one at 5g antenna line, type c port. So this does not support video out. Sadly, they have not added this yet with their flagships, and I do believe it's time that they did microphone and one of two loudspeakers which are downwards firing and then upwards firing. So over my years reviewing phones, I have seen a lot of displays- and I rate this as the best so far that I have seen for a display, so 6.81 inches HDR, Dolby Vision. This has a brightness that does top out at well over 1500 nets, and it is really, really bright.

You can make it out in direct sunlight now, I've seen the screen of the Samsung Galaxy s21 ultra. That is also excellent. This one, however, is a little better for me because it does have these advanced options like here DC dimming. Now this is great. It stops any low brightness flicker coming through the people are sensitive to that with OLED and AMOLED displays.

A lot of people do have the issue with that refresh rate 120 hertz and of course this does have the who plus resolution so 1440p basically, and you can adjust and change this. If you don't want that, you want to save on the battery a little lower down that resolution and when using the phone at normal distances, I can't tell too much of a difference on a phone screen when chopping that resolution down to the lower one there. So for those who want to save a bit of battery life, however, when I put it on to 60 hertz, I do see that, so it has a dynamic adaptive, refresh rate 2 as well, so it will adjust from 30 to 60 to 90, depending on the content as well. So with all your different options in here for dark mode schedule that reading mode color scheme, I really do love all the options we get in this, it's great for geeks, like me, so original colors, the one I prefer it is auto on recommended by default and to me, it looks a little too bluish the white balance, but hey that's just me personally, overall great display. I only really have one tiny little criticism with it.

I wish this was more symmetrical. These points here on the corners. I don't know why they've done this, perhaps to make it a little stronger, more resistant to drops, but I really wish it was more squared off. There would look a little better to my eyes, so the front covered with the Vitus glass should make it very drop resistant, and it does even come with a screen protector pre-applied out of the box, the ceramic on the back. I don't know how drop resistant that one is.

I think it might actually be a lot more prone to cracking. Furthermore, I guess we'll find out when people start to use and own these, and they end up being dropped or those silly bin tests and all that that other uh YouTubers like to do so excellent performance. This runs here the UI at 120 frames per second certain applications. You will notice at least I do pick up on this- that if I go into YouTube, it doesn't quite feel the comments. It's not running at 120 frames per second, but very, very quick here now I, with this review unit that I got from Xiaomi, have the 12 gigabytes of ram here, 256 gigabytes of storage, and it is excellent so far.

My time testing is this thing like the me11 super quick, and it's just of course, slightly different, better cameras, larger battery capacity, a little heavier. So if you're not really into the cameras, then the m11 still, of course, is a very, very good option. So, there's a couple of little things that I have been testing out and my first little hands on and look at it and wanted to point out, so it does come with mini 12.03 and this version doesn't have the big updates that are coming with 12.5 and pretty much. This apparently is like still a beta, or at least the camera software they claim is still a beta Xiaomi security patch level is march, okay, so we're in April. So that's not too bad there and, of course running android 11.

When the new updates come out, I will certainly probably post an update of that. Now. You do get a quite a bit of bloatware. This has been happening throughout all of their range of phones, not just the low end, the mid-ranges, but also the flagship. So I did count about 20 applications, so they've toned down a little compared to say the mid-range or the mi 11 light that I reviewed a lower end phone that had about 20 and about 2 gigabytes on that one.

This is only about 1.6 very easy to uninstall them. However, people say that I'm nitpicking. I don't believe that this should be here on such a premium phone now, advertising in the ROM with the uninstaller application or the installer application, I should say, and in the cleaner so far I haven't actually seen any advertising in it so crossing my fingers, that's going to happen so very, very good score here with an tutu, almost 700 000. Look at that GPU score, so Xiaomi really does push the thermal limits. Let the GPU perform to the maximum.

But as a result, I have found that this phone does get very hot with gaming, especially, I found that gens hen impact will start to get really, really hot internal storage speeds. They are good very, very fast here, not the fastest. I have seen, which is in fact the mate x 2 that I reviewed, which was really quick, but still for UFS 3.1 standard. This is perfect. That's not going to be a bottleneck at all for a phone like this, and we do have wide vine level, one search, so it does support HDR, 10, HDR, 10, plus 60 90 and 120 hertz, refresh rates too.

You can see listed at the top and camera two API support. That's as far as I've gone with the test, GPS and everything else will be in the full review with that onto our audio quality. So I've been reviewing Xiaomi phones for well ever since the 2s and the audio quality has most of the time been some of the best out there. Now we don't have the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, sadly, okay, but you have to use this. The adapter and the quality are excellent, really, really good.

So I've annoyed my wife with a few test calls with this phone and the audio quality, with the calls perfect, no issues with that at all and the loudspeakers. They do sound great. So they come out the bottom out of the top, and I like the fact when gaming, because it's so loud they're, powerful speakers and very rich, they add to the immersion of the gaming too, because it makes the case vibrate, while the back of it and the phone a little, which is great, but here's a sample now of the loudspeakers at maximum volume. What about the haptics feedback on this? So I rate the haptics motor in this as nothing special, so typing away. If I just type well just anything here that you do feel the nice little buzz from it, but it's not the best that I have felt out of these with a haptic engine.

I think the k30 ultra and even the Poco f2 haptics feel at least a little stronger and nicer with this. But overall I'd say it's average. It's just not exceptional! That's all, so this is the case on the phone, so we've got perfect cutouts for everything. A raised lip around the screen. There's a little raised lip here that goes all around the outside of this camera module cut out for the microphone for the audio zoom.

So I'm a little worried about this being all glass on the back here I don't want a big scratch over that camera module, so I will definitely be using this case. I'm someone that always places my phones down on the table like that. Always on display, of course, is present with this flagship phone, and you'd expect the spec of this phone, of course, and the price of it so lots of different options and customization. We can do here with mini 12. Now I don't go too deep into the UI into android, because I think a lot of you are already Xiaomi users.

You know that kind of stuff. So I'm not going to repeat too much of that, and I don't typically do this in my videos as well, so to demonstrate that always on display powering off there it comes up. It will give you messages about notification, battery life and, of course, you can still use the rear screen. You don't have to have this always on it does eat into the battery. This rear screen here won't have much of an impact at all on your battery life, because it is a super low powered screen from the mi band 5.

And a little preview here of gaming performance. So if you have been living under a rock, you probably don't know which title this one is, and it is gen Chen impact. This is the most demanding game currently on iOS and android. I believe it is, and it does really push systems very, very hard. Anything like your tablets and even PCs with a PC game, but here on android it does start to get quite warm when you're playing this game now performance is very good on even the highest settings you can swipe here, and you'll see that it normally runs around 60 frames per second all the time, which is great now occasionally there's a few little frame dips and that's not really a problem, but what I have noticed that, after about five to 10 minutes of gaming, if you are on the high settings, that is that this will happen.

So what happened here as you can see, the screen looks a bit dimmer and no. I did not turn down the brightness screen. Dimming takes place when the phone starts to get very, very hot, so touching it. It is warm to the touch uncomfortable, and it will get close to 50 degrees Celsius, even with my 23 degrees, ambient room temperatures here. So that's something to bear in mind now.

Let me talk a little about that rear display. I know it's getting a bit of attention, and it's a nice thing to have there. I probably wouldn't really be using it that much myself, but it's handy to have, so you can theme it there's a lot of different things. You can do. You can add an image, a photo of yourself on there.

If you wanted this, and it's handy to have don't get me wrong, and you can use it. Definitely as like an on-screen display, you can double tap it, which is handy, so you can see now when I flip the phone around that it will come on then, and that's handy if you just need a quick peek and look at the time, because that is a very, very low powered screen and that's that little OLED. That is a band, 5 screens it doesn't have a high refresh rate. I can see when I use the camera, and you use the rear camera to have this showing as a viewfinder that is quite laggy and slow and that's to be expected the type of screen it is, it's all about saving battery in that screen or that one of course double tapping it that tends to work most of the time. I found that sometimes when it's been off uh, that I've gone to double tap it, and I've taken two or three.

It goes then, to get it to show up, but there it's working for me. Fine, so we'll demonstrate this very quickly with the camera. So once you unlock it here, okay, flip over to the camera, and if you want to use it and use the main cameras you can use and enable it right here, you've got this option, so that is called the rear display preview. That is on now, and we're going to get an ugly shot of my lighting and the c-stand, and all that above me. But you can see that now, when you move it around, you see that that doesn't seem to be refreshing, at least for my eyes at 30 frames per second, but I still think it's enough for video.

I hope that it will support video. So yes vloggers out there that if you intended or were hoping to use this little rear screen as say the ultra-wide or the main camera to use those as vlogging cameras or for selfies, you can do it for photos like right now, but it won't work for portrait mode at the time of this video. I hope that if Xiaomi, are you watching this video that, please do add, support for video and portraits as well? So we can take advantage of these perfect main cameras now. Just to briefly show you what we can do with the cameras here in the application, some of the options that it does give us so video mode here. You've got the ultra-wide 48, megapixel, 50, megapixel main, and then you've got the five times optical and there's going to be some samples coming up shortly.

Super steady mode, all right, and you've got the two different options: you've got the main camera, and then they have that's the steady video and then the super. Well, the steady video pro sorry uses the ultra-wide to try and get it even more steadier. It's very, very aggressive. Uh stabilization they use with that. So with video options, what have we got? We got a lot.

Okay, you've got AI camera audio zoom. You've got tracking moving objects, which is very good for faster moving three-year-olds, like my own three-year-old, that doesn't sit still for more than two seconds macro here as well. Now the macro range to get up really close to things, isn't as good as the dedicated macro cameras. It uses the ultra-wide, the main camera. It can't really focus any closer than about five or six centimeters.

Furthermore, it doesn't like to get up to objects too close. Furthermore, it just simply will not focus so 4k 60. This has electronic image. Stabilization, 8k 24 frames per second. This is a proper 8k, not the 30 frames per second AI AK that we have seen, so there's a lot of options in their photo mode, AI, HDR, auto you got different filters' portrait.

You can adjust the background blur more filters there, as well under more 50 megapixel mode, various different other options. supermoon is one I need to also test out and over to our cameras now. So this is the front facing camera. With this one. We have electronic image stabilization, 320 kilo bits per second audio bit rate, but it does not have 4k, which would be perfect.

I mean come on. This is their top ROG when it comes to cameras, their top smartphone Xiaomi. I really do think that the flagships now should have 4k 30 and 60, and not just this 1080p, which is very good quality. As you can see, stabilization is good. There is quite a bit of a crop to it and if you move around very quickly, you don't tend to see too much rolling shutter effect come through this I mean it is only 1080p footage rear camera now.

So this has electronic image stabilization, I'm shooting with the ultra-wide, and I do apologize for the wind noise. It is very windy here on the coast, as you can imagine so, 320 kilo bits per second audio. This is 4k 30 and now, as I zoom in the great thing, is it swaps over to the other cameras, you'll see the transition right now that is one times so jog down these stairs' stability is very good. I have noticed sometimes some panning butter, noticeably on areas where the exposure changes a little or very bright scenes. It doesn't seem that smooth to me, so I'll now demonstrate the digital zoom that we have with this I'll focus on the ion tower.

So take it up to five times. Five times is now you see how it transitioned it swapped over so five times optical looks all right going up to 10 times now. The quality definitely does degrade a little there. So that also has the optical image stabilization I'll, pull right back here back to the ultra-wide and very, very good quality. With this you can shoot 4k, 30, 60 and even 8k with the ultrawide and the main camera okay, so bear in mind.

I've only had this phone for one day, so I'm not going to make any outrageous claims or anything like that, but first impressions, looking at the camera, there were some areas that I can see already that do need just a little of optimization. For example, bright colors. I've noticed that, with at least bright red some of the flowers I took photos of there's a bit of clipping over saturation, so there's some tweaking definitely needed there don't get me wrong, though it does take a very, very good photo, both the ultra-wide and the zoom camera. I am impressed most with the zoom camera on this one, just as I was with the me10 ultra, very, very good, great stability from it, and it takes detailed shots thanks to the megapixel count, the optics on there and even zooming in a little like 10 times, is still very usable and even 15 and 20. Well, it's starts to get a little less.

Of course, it starts to degrade a little there. Now video performance seems very, very good. I've noticed a little of panning butter from time to time, and I've seen this with other phones with Xiaomi, but thankfully, finally we can- and it's not the first phone to do this. I believe that we can start to now use all the cameras in video, so you can swap over, as I showed you to the ultra-wide, the main camera and then the zoom one. The transition, just like other manufacturers, is noticeable when you chop over different white balance between the different lenses and the cameras and the sensors, so that's normal and then okay, the rear screen on this for selfies.

You can only take a normal photo with this rear screen. So at the time of this video, my just first impressions here, we cannot shoot vlog video with it. Okay. So that's a bit of a disappointment to me. I'd love to use the ultra-wide for some vlogging video.

Even the main camera would be okay for that, and you can use the viewfinder even if it was just a choppy, 15 frames per second or 20. I do hope that Xiaomi implements this and also portrait mode. You cannot use with that rare with a rear finder, but normal portrait photos perfect. I did love some of those photos of my three-year-old daughter. She was always moving around even when she was holding those snails great shots and by the way no snails were harmed in the making of this video.

They went back to chewing on the grass and the weeds and other bits and pieces. We put them back there, so they weren't harmed there. So don't worry about that battery life on this okay, it's looking similar to the me11. It's going to be about six to seven hours of screen on time at 120, hertz and then around eight to nine. If you put it on to 60, or you lower.

The resolution as well. Both of those will extend the battery life, and I'll probably cover that in my full review. Rom performance is good now the areas that I think show me if they're listening to some constructive criticism, the bit of feedback here would love to see video out. Finally, that should really be here now come on with a flagship, a desktop mode with video out or even just desktop, mirroring screen mirroring would be handy to have with this and then the 3.5 millimeter jack. That went of course, okay.

That was bound to happen front facing camera, so only 1080p for vloggers, again just 1080p, so it's not really a vloggers mobile just yet, unless they can, of course, add the support for that rear screen, as I mentioned just before there. So what other areas in this one so charging time? Great, brilliant, it's so fast under 40 minutes, around 38 minutes or so to fully charge it I've only tested out the wired charging. I don't have the wireless charger that this one does support here.10 watt, reverse wireless charging, also an impressive feat now screen dimming, it's there. It's present it's been on a few other phones when it gets very warm like recording, especially 8k, video recording that and even 4k in the sun, even though it's white, the screen did start to dim down on me, and I've seen this before. I saw it on the mi 11, so that is there that is present and when you play games, so gentian impact is super demanding game that really makes phones cook.

So Xiaomi clearly to me, pushes the thermals on this. They allow for a higher surface temperature. They don't seem to throttle the phone at all, but yes, it will get up to about 49, 50 degrees, so very warm to the touch and my full and final review. I probably will touch on that I'll get my thermal imaging camera out, but I know the temperatures are going to be quite toasty there. So if you're in a hot climate, and you're going to gain ginseng impact, I would certainly lower the settings down just to keep the temperatures under control, maybe even consider running it, even though it's not that great 30 frames per second.

So, thank you so much for watching my first impressions, unboxing video here of the 11 ultra now, if you did like this video, please do subscribe and thank you so much for watching my video on this, because I know that there are now like about 200 other videos on the 11 ultra, so you've got a lot of people to choose from others that have really high production quality, and things like that. So do thank you for choosing and selecting my video to watch it and I do hope to see you back with the full review and more up-and-coming reviews of Xiaomi products and well all sorts of tech.

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