Xiaomi Mi 11i review: A filler phone? By Ryan-Thomas

With Huawei largely out of the running in the Europe and in the US, Xiaomi is swept in, and it is now saturating as much of the market as it possibly can. You'll notice that in the Xiaomi mi 11 series alone, there are eight phones that is insane. So then what is the mi 11i, and how does it differ from other me 11 devices? Crucially, though, should you be buying one, hey guys, I'm Ryan Thomas- and this is my review of the Xiaomi mi 11i. Before we get into detail. I want to take some time to compare the mi 11 to the mi 11 I to cut a long story short the mi 11. I have the same flagship, processor, ram and storage as the mi 11, but is a very slightly smaller battery, a slightly dimmer screen, a cut down camera stack and is built into a more cost-effective chassis with a flat display and thicker bezels pricing is rather hard to find online.

To be honest, I had a hard time trying to find it. It's around 700 pounds given different regions, give or take around 100 pounds, which puts it about 100 pounds less than the 11, the normal one, and for that obviously you're getting a more cut down phone than the 11. That does, though, put it in contention for your next phone, with sort of the iPhone 12 mini the OnePlus 9, the galaxy s21 on it on a deal. That kind of thing so just have that in mind. When we go through the review, Lucia 11i is made out of glass and metal.

It feels very well-built with no rattles nor creaks, but has a huge and thick camera bump on the back. It only has three cameras in it, so to call it excessive is probably quite an understatement there. This thing feels huge, and maybe that's because I've got more use to sort of the pixel 5 and the galaxy s 10, but yeah this thing with its 6.67 inch, 1080p 120 hertz display just feels massive. It might feel normal to a lot of other people, but compared to this to like an iPhone 12 Pro max, and it feels still very big, which is worrying about a lot of people. The OLED screen looks and feels very impressive.

It's a very solid display for a device at this particular price point. It gets very bright. You can adjust the fresh rate from 60 to 120 hertz, and it feels incredibly responsive due to that high refresh rate there's also a center place punch hole which I think looks spotless, and the larger bezels aren't that distracting. To be honest, I do prefer this flat screen than the curved one, but that's more of a subjective thing. Ergonomically.

If you have smaller hands, you will struggle to touch all the corners, but a display at this size is pretty much ideal for watching or YouTube Netflix, because it's so big, and you feel so immersed it's not quite as crisp as a quad HD screen at this size. But personally, I'd go full HD anyway, because it adds battery life and good performance, speaking of which the 11i showed no struggles in either of those categories. The 4520 million pound selling. This thing with 33 watt charging is more than adequate, and it got me through two full days actually switched the thing four times really hammering it, and it lasts me well over a day and a half of just sort of hammering the phone, but with my more relaxed style. As I've said before, I set a computer all day, so I tend to use that for sort of social media and stuff.

This thing lasts me easily two days and performance. Well, I mean he's: got a snapdragon 888, that's like the fastest Qualcomm chipset at the moment, eight gigs of ram. It's its fast! There 's's no getting around that, especially with this 120 hertz display as well. It feels really, really fast and probably will do for the next two or three years. Mini 12, based on android 11, is what you'll find on the 11i.

What does this mean? Well that you get the latest and greatest software version with a pretty good skin I mean mini has come on leaps and bounds in the past couple of years. I don't think it's quite the level of one UI or pixel experience, but it's still pretty good. There is a lot of bloat when you first, you know, set the phone up now. That might seem quite daunting. However, you can uninstall the majority of it.

I mean pretty much everything you can either uninstall or you can disable most of it is actually uninstallable, though, which is fantastic, because you know it's great, that it comes with all this stuff for some people who want that, but for the majority of us we just want our own apps on there and getting rid of them is pretty easy onto the cameras. This one is probably the biggest area of a modern smartphone, and it's probably one of the biggest areas that Xiaomi has cut corners to keep the price down. The two main cameras, the 108 megapixel rear and the 20 megapixel front are pretty good. To be honest, the main rear camera has a huge sensor with a huge resolution. It's very impressive, however, the two additional rear cameras, namely the 8 megapixel ultrawide and 5 megapixel telemark camera, really aren't as good they're, not as high quality due to poorer sensors and poorer optics used.

When it comes to the samples, I have to say, I'm pretty impressed sure the over saturation and over processing might annoy some, but I happen to quite like the splash of color, and also a lot of people are going to be viewing these images on sort of smaller screens. That's not going to be as much of an issue as if you put it on like a big 50-inch TV or something like that. If I had to rate the quality out of 10 with the pixel 5 and iPhone 12 Pro max at 10 and a potato at zero, this is a 7 or 8 for its main camera. It's pretty good but, of course, without a solid suite of quality cameras. You really can't compare the mia11i to those other devices in low light.

The MIA 119 does really struggle due to its processing and its overzealous use of noise reduction. As for portrait mode, the processing is also a weak point in these images. Don't look awful by any means, but the computational photography is what differentiates a good smartphone camera from the best of the best. In this regard, google Samsung, Huawei and Apple are leading the charge, the mi 11 eyes. Cameras overall are decent, but nothing that will blow you away for 700 pounds and given the rest of the device.

I'd call them more than enough to justify buying it, which brings us on to the question of the hour. Should you be buying a 11i now? If you can actually find one in the first place, then you know, maybe you have the option there, but for a lot of us in a lot of different regions. Finding one of these, as opposed to like a, 11 normal, like standard me, 11, is going to be pretty tricky now it does have some very, very stiff competition, namely the iPhone 12 mini or the OnePlus 9 galaxy s21. Those are all phones that I personally would buy over this now. Maybe it's because this is a very specific phone.

It's for people who want speed, 120 hertz display snapdragon 88, it's a very fast phone, and it's got good battery life and a decent charging as well, but I actually value the cameras a lot more than I think Xiaomi put effort into making this camera good. I know that sentence doesn't make a lot of sense for most of you, but some of you will understand what I mean there. There doesn't seem to be a lot of emphasis on the cameras and that's the main corner cutting piece which for people who don't actually care about cameras is ideal because you're, essentially getting a 11 for 100 pounds off. That's fantastic, however, for those of us who do care about cameras, this is going to be a bit of a worry if you're, just using the primary camera you're fine, you know like the quality, is probably about as good as a 11 anyway, so you're getting a high quality main camera. However, the additional cameras yeah leave a lot to be desired.

So yes buy it. If you don't care about the additional camera, suite don't buy it if you care about the additional camera suite and that about rounds out. Today's video guys Xiaomi sent this one out for me to review, but didn't see this video before you guys, so it's all going at the same time. It's not sponsored video or anything like that. No affiliate links to it in the video description, uh yeah.

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