Xiaomi Mi 11 review: Packed with potential! By Pocket-lint

In the recent past, there was a time when Huawei the then champion Chinese export looks set to take on the big name brands of the smartphone world, but thanks to some political turmoil, things have changed somewhat, and they've left a gap in the market abroad. Thanks to not being able to have access to google play now, one manufacturer, that's poised to put its foot in the door is Xiaomi, though this other Chinese tech mega company is no stranger to phone making. But it's now at a position in design terms, at least where it's at the very cutting edge for the 11, complete with its curved screen, design and fresh, take on cameras, it's a visual delight, but it's also the first phone to ever deploy a Qualcomm, snapdragon 8 processors inside it, showing that Xiaomi is a step ahead of all the other manufacturers. Currently, so are we looking at the next big brand ready to blow up or not, I'm km Bunsen from pocket lint, and this is our review of the Xiaomi me11. If you do like this, video, please do leave a thumbs up. As always.

It's always appreciated hit that subscribe and the little bell to make sure you don't miss any more of our videos. Now, there's only so far. You can push the mold when it comes to creating a rectangular interactive screen, but the mi 11 is refined at every turn, whether it's the gently curved glass edges on all four sides, the subtle gradients and light catching properties of the frosted glass rear or the deftly cut, punch, hole camera to the front. The me11 is poised to perfection wrapped into that design. There's a lot of top quality specs too.

The screen a 6.81 inch AMOLED panel is large but proportioned. So it's not ridiculous for thumb reach across it. Thanks that 20 by nine aspect ratio, the always-on panel can glow at those subtle curved edges as a not too intrusive alert mechanism which looks wonderful. The kind of blue purple aura, alerting you that you've got notifications coming in, as is often the case with OLED panel balancing. However, when the screen is dimmed, it crushes the blacks somewhat, not nearly as bad as say.

The Oppo find x2 pro did, but it's definitely there and to some degree the software seems a bit too keen to push the brightness down a notch, one of the number of quirks to Xiaomi's moon software. The screen spec doesn't stop reaching for the stars there either. It's got a who plus resolution with an adaptive, 120hz refresh rate, to help smooth out animations and gameplay. Oddly in the settings, though, the refresh rate page in the settings calls 120hz medium compared to 60hz as standard rather than having the highest one set as high. So it's not particularly well termed in the menu, as ever with refresh rate, it impacts battery life, as does the chosen resolution, but the mi 11 can run who, plus that's 3200 by 1440 pixels at 120 hertz, which is as good as things get at this moment in time, there's also full HD plus, which is 2400 by 1080 and automatic switching options to help save that battery life.

All the more. Whichever of the two resolutions you pick, though, your content will look glorious. The high spec screen is matched with high spec ibid's too, as the first device to support the Qualcomm snapdragon 8 platforms. It puts heaps of core power at your fingertips and a fair bit of heat to match a powerful processor. Even a five nanometer process platform such as the 888 can't exactly run cool so expect some hand.

Warming as a result which, given that it's pretty cold right now, is actually not necessarily a bad thing. So, while the setup will run your favorite games and apps at their best enhanced by the available refresh rate and resolution of the screen, it will of course impact your battery life. Now inside the 11 there's a 4 600 William hour cell, which is reasonable enough, and it also sports 55 watt fast charging and 50 watts wireless charging, but will drain faster than your average on account of the high-end specs we're not talking drain at a problematic level, though we ran the phone from 9am start to 1am finish, including 4 hours of gaming off and on, and those 16 hours of use took the battery into its final 15. So, even with pretty solid usage, the above meant nearly 7 hours of screen time. In short, the 11 will get you through the day.

Part of the reason for this is the fairly high impact of Xiaomi's moon software. There are lots of options to pick through and a number of alerts to suggest, limiting certain functions to retain battery and a lot of per app permissions that you'll need to tinker with to ensure everything runs as you. Please, that's a kind of good kind of bad all at the same time, because there's so much footwork to do to get everything functioning as you'd expect, and sometimes you won't know, there's a problem with a specific app until say it doesn't send you a notification which you later than find by manually opening the app itself now the mi 11 is expected to launch globally with moon 12.5, which should hopefully bring an updated and fresher approach. That's not the software we're running on this device, though, and how much difference this will genuinely make and what tweaks it will bring is yet to be seen, but as we find the tinker with nature of moon to be the biggest hurdle of this device and of Xiaomi devices as a whole, especially seeing as it's largely inconsistent from device to device. Seeing the software advanced to a more natural usable state is what will elevate this device to another level.

Now, on the camera's front, the mi 11 takes a different rather refreshing approach. Yes, there's quite a number of lenses here, three and all, but none are there for the heck of it. Each lens has its own task. The main camera is a super high resolution at 108 megapixels, there's an ultra-wide to cram more into a scene but far lower resolution at 13 megapixels, while the 5 megapixel tell macro camera is the best we've seen yet for close-up shooting, although it's still not quite perfect, that's refreshing compared to various phone camera setups that appear with four or five lenses, many of which do little or nothing at all. The mi 11's only real absence is there's no real zoom of any kind anyway, back to the cameras themselves, the main lens uses four in one pixel processing to produce 27 megapixel images.

Those are inevitably still massive at 6016 by 4512 pixels in a 4x3 aspect ratio. There are heaps of detail crammed in it's a decent optic with good results, though including when shooting in low light conditions. Indeed, the night mode does a grand job of handheld long exposure, shots aided by the optical image stabilization system to keep things steady. The telemetry, however, doesn't feature any stabilization which can make it a bit tricky to use you'll get some great close-up, but there's not the same degree of accomplishment with sharpness or detail, partly because it's five megapixels only and partly because the autofocus feedback here is limited and not entirely helpful. So overall, then not only does the me-11 hit a number of firsts, such as introducing the Qualcomm snapdragon 88 to the world.

It's also attractively priced with 749 euros set as the opening sum for all that's on offer. Here. That's super value. The 11's fresh take on cameras. There aren't any lenses here for the heck of it.

An accomplished design are, among its highlights, sure the moon software has its quirks, which we think is the most questionable part of the package, but it's stable and tinkerable enough to shape it into a strong overall experience. The me11 is packed full of potential at this price. It's certainly worth you're taking a moment of your time to mull it over as your next flagship android purchase, I've been cam, I'm at cam button on social media. If you want to follow me, ask me questions on there. You can do as always.

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