Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra Review - The Only Review You Need To See By Geeky Stuff

Hey guys welcome back to the channel. If you, okay, let's try again hey guys, welcome back to the channel. If you are new here, then please do consider subscribing, so I've used the 11 ultra for a full two weeks. This device is probably going to cost around a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom roughly there thereabouts. Now you do get a lot for your money, but as always, there are still room for improvements. So, let's get into the review.

So the mi 11 ultra boasts a whopping 12 gigabytes of ram, a gorgeous 6.81 inch, quad HD, plus Samsung e4 AMOLED display with a screen resolution of 3200 by 1440p. If that's not enough, the display also has an adaptive refresh rate of hertz. Now that makes the display. So it looks so much better and very responsive to the touch as well and protecting this stunning display is gorilla, glass, Invictus, so there's less chance of getting any scratches on there. The m11 ultra is powered by the latest and greatest snapdragon chipset, the snapdragon triple eight.

Yes, the phone is fast and handles pretty much everything you throw at it. But one thing I have noticed over the last couple of weeks is the device does get very hot uh, especially when gaming, I did do a gaming review recently uh about an hour's worth of gaming, all condensed into like a 30-minute video, but it got so hot. I really didn't want to touch it any further, so it does get really, really hot. Sometimes when you're using the video camera for a long period of time as well, it can get quite hot there, but the performance was never affected. There was never any errors or overheating errors or anything like that.

It's just the phone does get extremely hot. Sometimes so, when you pick this device up- and you hold it- you know you are holding carrying a premium phone. It is absolutely solid. The ceramic back is the icing on the cake. It makes it feel so smooth and silky.

It just feels really, really premium, and it is over a thousand pounds with it being ceramic um, a ceramic back. Furthermore, it is very, very slippery, and if you have dry hands like I do, sometimes it can glide out of your hands. If you have sweaty sort of clammy hands, then you can get a bit of a grip on onto I suppose, but when you're laying this down on any surface, try and make sure it's flat like a flat fabric, because otherwise it's going to be sliding off, and I've had a couple of near misses before, but the ceramic back, the aluminum frame, the gorilla glass Vitus on the front all together the package is beautiful. It's a pleasure to hold but hold it tight, yeah, so overall, build quality is excellent, there's no sort of bend or flex. I know people do these silly bend tests and stuff like that um, but yeah, even the thickness as well.

It's just about right for my hands um! I do have huge hands. It's a 6.8 inch display as well uh. That fits in the palm of my hand like that, but yeah I am. I have no problem handling this phone. Maybe people with smaller hands might struggle a little, but in terms of thickness I think it's just right.

Okay, so one of the things I'm not too fond of on the me11 ultra is the under display or under screen fingerprint sensor. Now, don't get me wrong, it is rapid once you've got it, you've got it, it is rapid, but it's just the getting it the first part actually finding if it's not as reliable as a trusty fingerprint sensor on the back or maybe um. You know a built-in one like here on the Poco f3 built in with your with the power button at the side perfect. If this had a fingerprint sensor on the side built into the power button, I'm confident unlocking will be 100 successful. All the time, I don't feel there's any benefit of having an under screen fingerprint sensor in a smartphone.

For me, all it does is just ticked the box as a futuristic sort of specification or feature um. I think it's not 100 practical built into a button on the side or at the back is more practical than it is under the screen as well. I don't know why they do it. There's no benefit in my eyes. If you feel differently, let me know down in the comments below on your views.

So not a big fan of the in-screen fingerprint sensor, but you do have the know. The option to do face unlock and the face unlock on here is rapid. It works. It also works, sometimes when you're wearing a mask um, which is good, but then also makes me question the actual, the security, how strong that is on the face unlock on the mi 11 ultra, it's not as secure as say like the iPhone 12. So whether you want that enabled on this phone or not, is obviously entirely your choice.

But yes, it will be less secure than an iPhone, and it does struggle in dark sort of environments to unlock your face as well. But the feature is there, but the fingerprint sensor is a more secure solution. So I want to jump onto one of my other favorite features and that's the speakers one at the bottom, one at the top equal amount of power and frequencies. So it's a nice stereo sort of experience when you're listening to music. It has the stamp on the top of the phone sound by Herman, pardon and they're excellent, excellent, sound quality crystal vocals and nice low ends for the kicks as well.

The loudspeaker is a huge tick on the box. For me, the m11 ultra has a 5 000 William battery, which is quite big, but this does have a quad HD plus display 120 hertz refresh rate as well. I stripped it all back on one of the days, so I was down just full HD plus and 60 hertz, now the battery or the screen on time. For that day, I've got a very good seven hours and 56 minutes, which is plentiful for, for most people, didn't do a huge amount of gaming really on that. It's just sort of an average use really and then on one of the other days.

I whacked it all the way to full quad HD plus, but I kept it at 60, hertz, refresh rate, and on that day I achieved 6 hours and 34 before I went to bed, but I still had 17 battery left on there. So I think the battery performance, obviously depending on what you're doing, can get you through a full day, but if you're a heavy user, and you're gaming, a lot then do not expect it to last a full day, so the mi 11 ultra ships with android 11 and their own mini 12 over the top on this actual device. This is the mini 12.0.6. The OS is so configurable there's so many settings on this operating system is unreal or one of the uh. The little features that stuck out in my head is the clear speaker feature if you turn that on it will basically play a certain frequency and try and blow out any dust or crap in the speaker.

The OS is pretty slick and the menus are very easy to navigate. But what I did find over the past couple of weeks is sometimes I'd. Have very slow notifications come through, or even sometimes miss notifications altogether, and I experienced that as well on the Redmi Note 10 pro, obviously with the same uh same software, the mini. Obviously so, there's an issue or two there for me. Why? I think we need to iron out in terms of notifications on the pixel 5 they come through, like that, I don't miss a notification, so there's a couple of little things in there that which I think would be good if they ironed out so to the nitty-gritty.

The main talking point is that camera bump. That is the main talking point for me on the 11 ultra there's a lot going on here. A hell of a lot and first, is that 1.1 inch, AMOLED display, which is taken from the me band 5. It is touchscreen as well, you can tap it and that will appear, which is just as there you can display pictures on their like. I have also little quotes or little messages on there and little themes, and also notifications and phone calls you can see on the back of the device, but that does beg the question: how many people lay their phone flat with the screen down and that facing up? I don't know so.

Some people will find that feature useful and some. It might just be a waste of time now that screen also integrates in to the camera as well. So when you're taking a photo, you can switch it around to yourself, and you're, using the main rear camera to take a photo that'll, also work in ultra-wide as well. Unfortunately, that is it doesn't work with video so for all you vloggers out there who wanted to make use of that rear camera. You can't, it's just actioned or enabled for photo, but I'm sure Xiaomi will be looking into that to get that working on the main camera for video, because that would be excellent.

I mean I'm not saying you can't use that people could still use that you could line your face up in photo mode on the rear screen then switch to video. Then you sort of know where you've got to hold it, so you can still get away get around it sort of there, although yeah not in photo, I'm not a video mode to video mode, I'm using my camera to cheat now yeah. So it's that that's the one yeah just look straight down the camera. All lined up you can line that up there and make use of that fantastic big sensor on the rear of the phone so quickly coming away from the back and moving to the front. That is a 20 megapixel, front-facing camera 2.2 aperture. Now in terms of video, you can shoot up to 1080p at 60 frames per second with stabilization, which is good, very good, but for an ultra phone I probably would have liked to have seen 4k 60 in there as well.

That would have made it obviously a lot more ultra in terms of quality of the front-facing camera. It produces very good photos. Color accuracy is perfect. Also, the both mode video stabilization is very good as well. Obviously, when you take this into darker conditions, then the photos do soften okay.

So let's talk about the rear cameras. There's three: we have a 50 megapixel main sensor, 48 megapixel ultrawide and a 48 megapixel periscope telephoto. So I want to show you first some video clips. It can shoot up to 8k in 25 frames um. I have tested that, but I'm not going to include that in the in this video.

This video is not going to be 8k anyway, but the maximum I shot at was at 4k.60. um have a look at these videos, hold the hole in there 4k wide 60 frames per second, it's a nice wide field of view and stabilization is on, which is superb, is working really well and there they are hiding you hiding all right. Let's go down the steps a little. Judging us down the steps, 1080p 60 frames per second stabilization is on here as well. It's a nice wide field of view in the ultra-wide stabilization.

Is nice and smooth as well? It's looking really nice, hey aria. Are you dancing, so now we're on the standard, the ultra-wide sort of wide field of view, with 1080p 60 frames per second stabilization enabled as well. So it's looking really smooth. We have the castle just over there. Now it's perfect that there's stabilization throughout 1080p or 720p, actually all the way up to 8k, because wrist stabilization there as well.

I think the stabilization works really well. I think the quality of the video is excellent, and they also offer super slo-mo 1920 120 fps. Now I tested um, you know a few shots at 1920 fps in slow motion with my daughter and my partner and achieved some interesting results. Surprisingly, the quality is perfect. A lot of smartphones.

You can see the quality reduce when this sort of settings is being applied, but I think the actual quality is perfect, so actually, when you're shooting in 1920 fps you're, there's only like about five seconds of footage. You get anyway, so you have to be pretty quick with whatever you're capturing. Now, if you drop to 480 fps for slow motion, then you can record for pretty much. However long you want, and you can choose and drag where you want the slow motion to occur as well and again as long as the subject's in focus. I think the quality is perfect, so the slow motion can be found in the camera software settings and there are loads of other options and features you can play around with there as well.

There's also the vlog setting you can jump in. There choose a certain feature, and it will just chuck a few video clips that you put together and record and create a tiny little vlog for you in movie effects. You have a slow shutter effect, so this is called the slow shutter effect, and you use this in low light conditions. Look at that slow, shutter effect. Not why you'd want that.

I do not know, hey looks very blurry, and they also played around with the parallel world as well and the long exposure feature. That's a pretty cool feature to test uh. You can sort of draw lines with light as well in there, and that does a pretty good job as well. So I think the m11 ultra ticks a lot of boxes in the video mode, let's now jump over to the stills, so it has the massive gn2 sensor, the largest sensor on a smartphone in the mass market and obviously that lets in lots of light and helps you produce a nice bulky, bulky both creamy effect. I said this before in a video about the mia11 ultra 11 ultra things.

Uh portrait mode will be no more on smartphones. They also have a nice large sensor, nice wide aperture as well, and you're going to achieve this portrait looking effects the both effect, and this comes naturally on the me11 ultra beautiful shots. I've captured, so I quite like Xiaomi's image processing they do make it look very vibrant in the photos. The color accuracy in most cases is pretty much spot on, but there are times when it might over saturate and maybe sometimes overexpose so. It's not always perfect, but on the whole video quality and color accuracy is damn good.

I love an ultra-wide picture, and again I captured some fantastic ultra-wide pictures on this. It's using the 48 megapixel sensor as well and another thing I've noticed on the mi 11 ultra. Just like the Redmi Note 10 pro is, you do get quite a bit of lens flare in some shots, so some of these you can see the lens flare just across the photos and obviously in a couple of videos as well. Some people really like the lens flare if it's actually applied correctly, but sometimes it can be a little off-putting. So the m11 ultra excels quite well in night mode and with the larger sensor it has it's going to let in more light and when you do put it into night mode or even just normal camera mode.

There will be a little setting that automatically detects is dark, it will say knight, 1s or knight, 2s, that's basically one second, two seconds four or five seconds of exposure. The camera will let in before, actually capturing the actual picture. Now, even if you're in absolute pitch black conditions, it somehow produces light from somewhere yeah. The pictures might not be absolutely amazing, but you can definitely see what's there and even outside as well, if there's a tiny light source that probably obviously will help, but look at these absolutely insane. So let's talk about the 120x zoom a little of a gimmick, if I'm being honest so actually on the interface, you can go all the way to 120 times.

I think uh, when using it. I've got the best results at five times. Really anything above that especially 120 you're. Looking at um, it looks like a oil painting where they's a bit of a sort of mess, a little of a rugby mess. So in most cases the 120x will not really be usable, but it's a feature that they've crammed in there, and they've plastered on the back of the device.

But it's not something that I would use, and I'm pretty sure a lot of people wouldn't either. That pretty much concludes my review of the 11 ultra. It has pretty much everything if you do like a smartphone with all the bells and whistles with all the latest tech, then this does has it just has its does have it that little neat display on the back there, but it is going to drain your battery. That's another thing: you've got to consider that will drain your battery more but yeah. This has everything and because I'm a tech reviewer there are things that could be improved or things that I would change, and I've been through that for the review.

But just to conclude, I put the fingerprint sensor in the power button that would be perfect. I'd make that work in video mode, which I'm sure will come I'd optimize the software in here. So all the notifications were snappy, bang bang as soon as they were there they delivered, but that for me those are the things that they could do to make it pretty much perfect. Now guys, I appreciate you all for watching- and hopefully I haven't bored you too much, but now I'm going to be using the Poco f3 I'll be jumping onto this properly. Now I did do my unboxing.

I've just installed an update, and I'm going to store some games on this now and to test it. But that's got the nice side loaded fingerprint sensor in there. You see, I know where the power button is. I know where the fingerprint sensor is it's going to unlock 100 of the time any questions about the m11 ultra or anything, well, anything related to sort of smartphone tech. I don't want to know, like you know, questions like audio for breakfast stuff, like that, just tech related stuff.

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