Review: Xiaomi 11T Pro Snapdragon 888 120W Charging

HEADLINES - Hi guys, here with a review of the Xiaomi 11 D Pro, so they don't the me party got na just calling it numbers now 11 D Pro is a bit of a four flagship which excels in charging that's because it comes as you saw in the unboxing with a 120 watt charger or premier for the mainstream segment. Priced at around 650 euros The device has to offer a cinematic experience that's what they're calling it, focusing a lot on this Dolby Vision enabled screen and also the triple back camera with its cinematic modes, also Harman Kardon speakers and a big battery. Now first of all I'm going to refer to the design so let's start I will say that the bezels have a medium thickness not too similar to fake. 

At the same time we find the backside of glass with a aluminum texture if you look closely, there is that metallic imitation it's a mirror finish and also it gets modularly pretty easily but luckily we have a case in the box. So there is an aluminum frame there is Gorilla Glass Victor's at the front and glass of the back 8.8 millimeters in thickness and a weight of 204 grams is what you're getting here. And aside from that, I will say that the buttons on the left excuse me on the right are pretty comfy. The power on is flat and also integrates the fingerprint scanner which is quite easy to access. For the sake of protection we have IP three certification which means dust and splash protection, ip 68 would have been nice, but that's about it. This hue is called meteorite gray and it's quite the Looker. This one is a comfy phone I would even go ahead and say it's okay to handle with a single hand. However, if you have a smaller hand you may have some problems reaching the top part of the screen which is you can see not much of a problem for me. 

Okay, so that's pretty much it. I think it's time to discuss the screen you're seeing here I would say it's one of the selling points. After all we are dealing with the six point 67 molar excuse me six point 67 inch AMOLED panel with resolution of 2400 over 1080 pixels to nine aspect ratio Gorilla Glass victus protection, Dolby Vision support which is something rare, if not unseen, so far from all the phones we've tested, and also 1 billion colors to show 120 hertz refresh rate HDR 10 Plus it's crammed to the brim with innovation and technology, this bell now the actual experience involves the video playback which we have here prepared for you let's turn down the music a bit and check it out. Okay, so first of all, the punch hole for the selfie camera doesn't bother me it's not that big. The same time we're playing with a very bright screen which is pretty crisp in image it displays with colors, which I would say are a bit whiter than usual. That's just my impression. The contrast is solid you want in the full sunlight the screen remains legible so the text can be easily comprehend even on an extremely sunny day. We also have very wide view angles both vertically and horizontally. 

So it's a quality panel indeed, as promised by show me now, if you want to talk about the results award tests we have our sister site here and let's first talk about the brightness. Okay, so this amulet panel achieved in our tests 603 Lux units. This is an excellent score surpassing the likes of the Motorola edge 20 Pro the Galaxy S 21 Plus, and also the galaxies Don't you want older even it's below the vivo s 60 Pro Xiaomi level and the Huawei P 40 Pro. As usual which such solid screens we're also getting a lot of settings to tweak it. I will start with the always on display, which can be tweaked from here again certain inspirational message and I want to give you a tip. 

If you have something like I don't know smoking addiction or try to give up a certain food, you can write a message here to always remind you to give it up more easily. Okay, next up we also have display section where you can find your light mode and dark mode brightness level and anti flicker mode or reading mode, which is kinda on the eyes gentle on the eyes color scheme with a huge amount of options ranging from the colors to the adaptive colors, color temperature and even more color gamut options here oreeginal p3, sRGB color space hue saturation value contrast gamma and so much more. There is the refresh rate which can be set to 120 or 60 hertz. This is the standard from the factory was set to 60 hertz, but I prefer 120 for gaming. And that's about it quite a few options have to say again. Now we go inside the phone and we find the friendly face the Qualcomm Snapdragon 880 which has been pretty much a staple The flagships from the year 2021. 

This five nanometer 5g optical CPU has the Adreno 660 GPU, and the current case is accompanied by only eight gigs of RAM. There's also version as far as I know they should be working with 12 but we have eight and 256 gigabytes of storage which is actually not that bad. No microSD here just so you know also no lag and overheating. We played asphalt nine a lot. You can also play games in impact Call of Duty mobile with zero problems and with zero overheating. As usual, we've done a few tests but not all of them. The device doesn't support 3d mark and GFX bench for some reason, but it does support on two to eight where we scored on the 18 spots. Now we surpassed iPhone 12 Pro Max, also the galaxy z flip three but we score below the Galaxy S 21. And vivo s 60. Pro also the one plus nine pro in Geekbench five in the multi core sub tests were just a smidge above the Galaxy S 21. With our 5g and the iPhone 11 Pro max. 

We also surpassed the Oppo find x three pro which was a pretty powerful phone but it's still below the experior one Mark three and one plus nine as well as the real me Gt 5g. Now 3d modeling work so let's see for example base Marco is here we're just above the real me Gt 5g and we're also below the one plus nine pro we scored the 10th spot so the phone feels like it should finish the year around top 15 Top 20 that the performance we're getting here. And as far as the temperature is concerned, you shouldn't be concerned we only reached at a value of 34 degrees Celsius in benchmark so there is no overheating here. Now as far as the battery is concerned, we have here a 5000 milliamp hour lithium polymer unit which has a crazy 120 watts charging promising on paper to juice up the phone in just 17 minutes. And after a 10 minutes you're at 72% apparently. 

Now I'm going to start with a video playback test. Typically Snapdragon 888 phones have been a disappointment this year. When it comes to battery life. This one isn't we 18 hours and 37 minutes of continuous video playback. It's actually one of the best when it comes to Snapdragon 888 phones, it beats four we made 40 Pro it beats iPhone 12 Pro Max, one plus nine series and also quite a few other handsets with that CPU. It's below the one plus HD, the show me eleventy and the Galaxy Note 10 Plus, if I remember correctly, when it comes to continuous usage, we're also doing fine perhaps even better than the previous result 14 hours and 29 minutes. This is even more surprising. It surpasses Huawei, p 40 Pro iPhone 10 from Max Expedia five mark two one plus nine and quite a few other phones. It's below the real me eight pro show me 1131 plus eight and show me then the Pro. Now the charging is something out of this realm. It took me 25 minutes for a full charge from zero to 100%. With a bit of a correction. As the phone gets to 0% it requires several minutes to figure out what's happening to it so it loses about three, four or even five minutes reaching from that status of uncharged to 0% that is that moment after it gets to zero when it starts to charge up. So it actually may be lower than 25 so that's pretty cool. Basically after just 15 minutes you're 60% and good to go and that's a crazy charging time crazy good of course. 

As usual show me when it comes to the 11 or me 11 series it goes all out. It gives you Harman Kardon acoustics they've been doing that ever since the mid level and it separates the top speaker and bottom speaker from the earpiece here which is a pretty cool decision. We don't have an audio jack but we do have Dolby Atmos and quite a few customisations if you go to the area here and go to the sound effects we have Dolby Atmos presets dynamic video, music and voice and a graphic equalizer with genres and then channels to play with. Okay, now I'm going to resort to YouTube and play a copyright feature.

Okay, so one of the best bases I've heard recently very slowly base, I would say a pretty large volume although far longer than that. Excellent high notes are very good separation of the frequencies and true stereo phony. The bottom speaker doesn't overlap the top one and vice versa. Okay, so we don't have to believe me. We have decibel meter test here the power of the volume which is 85.7 decibels at the bottom and 85.2 decibels at the top measure with a special tool and an acoustic sample, which means were above Motorola at&t Pro and Galaxy A 52. 5g, but at the same time below the Xiaomi Mi 11 Galaxy S 2103 and real APR in games there was a little bit disappointed we just reached 91.4 decibels which require above 100. 

In real life It felt louder but in this case, we're just beating Galaxy S 20. Plus and scoring below dozens of other flagships including the Mi 11 and the S 21 series. I think we're done with the acoustics and it's time to discuss the front camera. It's a 16 megapixel shooter which I find to be odd. They should have integrated or could have integrated a 20 megapixel camera from the mean level light from the me level from the entire me level series anyway 16 megapixel in a punch hole on the backside, triple setup 108 megapixel camera, not optical image stabilization this time it's a Samsung isocell agent to sensor combine them pixels in one has phase detection autofocus it's accompanied by the windrow wide camera here the back eight megapixel Sony fixed focus and atella micro five megapixel Samsung camera with autofocus this time there is the dual dual tone flash here we have 8k 30 frames per second video capture a Pro mode, ai mode, night mode, vlog mode, slow mo movie facts and so much more. 

Now if you go to the gallery, we have quite a few shots actually almost 300 of them get taken during the day during the night and even some on my very own balcony because I have some pretty flowers to show off. Okay, so these ones were meant to show off the close ups of the camera which are quite solid back in the days of the Galaxy S 20 altra and the whole ep 40 Pro close ups were disappointing while this one takes some pretty nifty ones and the colors are spot on. 

These are the selfies I've taken on the balcony but I think that the ones taken outside are more relevant so here we go. Here have photos of a statue with a pretty unnatural sky color which will not be repeated book it is quite well done with the main camera and these are the first selfies I would say that have a lot of details here you can see the pores you can see the eyes and facial expression and you can see the hair down to each thread. So that's a lot of detail. I'm also happy with the focusing but the face is a bit too white for my liking anyway, also very good cut in the book a very good highlight of the main subject from the background. So so far so good, solid close ups of flowers, no matter the color and another set of selfies against the eyes better this time. I've activated any sort of beautifying effects so you can get the real deal lovely texture of the water which you have here. 

So this one is a regular shot. This one is an ultra wide shot which doesn't deform the colors too much but if you look in the distance in the details, they fade away a little compared to the main camera. Okay, more colors here they're pretty much kept in check so reds are totally red. blues are truly blue. The only thing that's weird is maybe the grass behind it's a bit oversaturated compared to the real grass. This is a CRO which has so this is 2x zoom which is okay but when you go to 5x there's quite a bit of noise we're definitely missing the telephoto camera here. 

These are some fantastic macros some of the best I've taken so you'll be sure to take some nice macros with this phone this one are very successful I had to bend over and capture this knot or whatever this is just not so didn't come out very well. More shorts here in color. Regular shot will throw a short irrigation not much difference both details are being lost in the three in the foliage and macros again with an amazing amount of detail of the most on the rock so that's pretty much it I would place this daytime camera performance between the Galaxy S 20 series and the S 21 maybe with slightly better colors bursting with oversaturation. Okay so now let's analyze the low light short we've taken here have to say that there is an AI here aside from the one who can activate which quickly figures out the tonight short and activate its own flavor of night mode. And I mean it's pretty efficient, but we reactivate it things are a bit sharper and a bit darker.

I mean the choice is yours if you want more light or more sharpness. In general the photos were okay the only underwhelming ones were the ultra wide ones, I would say behaves like a true flagship in most scenarios. Especially with the night mode own it's not one that makes the night become the it's rather a more I would say pragmatically one which keeps things in check so too much lighting would be odd doing My time and I have to say that the colors are pretty spot on especially when there is a lot of artificial right around you be happy with the results even ultra wide which is actually not bad. And one of the most relevant scenes aside from this ice cone with a perfect portrait is actually here. So this is a typical shot no night mode. 

Actually excuse me This is the typical shot in a very dark situation. This is the AI activated the night mode. This is the actual night mode from the settings after a few seconds of exposure and this is once again the AI and this is a photo with a flash on so this is slightly bluish honestly actually prefer the AI this time. It's a bit Kinder on image as you can see here even if some shades This one makes it brighter, but it doesn't exaggerate with the brightness, although there is that, I would say cartoonish effect which appears sometimes in night shows things tend to look a bit like a sketch drawing a pencil drawing. That's one drawback I've seen on many forms including high profile ones, and there are also quite a lot of reflections and the lights are quite big particularly in the ultra wide shots. I would say it's something like you will get on a 2030 flex ship. Okay, so we're done with the photos let's talk about videos. And to keep things easier I want to resort to the video app here provided I can find it. Here we go Me video. Local and we have quite a few of those here. 

Okay, so to keep things relevant, we're going to see them one at a time we have to have an 8k video and what I can tell you about the 8k video is that it's quite quite shaky. Here it is. I mean it's clear and all there is a bit of oversaturation for the glass for excuse me a bit of oversaturation for the grass a lot of details excellent clarity but you can clearly see that as the musician is lacking a lot of shakiness going around here and the sky is a bit too wide in certain areas. Okay so if you're in color that is definitely the video want excellent color calibration here once again except for the grass which at times appears to be a radioactive to intense green however not as bad as we've seen on the Galaxy S 20 plus this is a focus test on a Mickey Mouse ear and on the background alternating between them in a pretty fast manners autofocus is very fast that's a big plus was not a big plus is the stigmatization which are tested with a special study mode on at first it looks okay what descending stairs here quite rapidly I would add and if you look closely the images stripy they think a bit it's trembling. 

So there is that stimulation is a bit lacking in this regard. Okay, so we also have a dual mode here capture with the front camera and the back camera at the same time. And we have this cool effect alternate world. It is powered by the movie inception, one of the core cinematic modes of the handset. And we also have one more here, 4k video with some very crisply rendered water. This is one of the few videos will actually have zero bad comments about the colors that pretty well calibrated. And we also have a selfie video, which feels more like something you would achieve with a galaxy a series formula a 52 a 72 or even the AV 71 from last year because it's a bit too bright and has an intense contrast. Those were taken during the day one conclusion would be that though it feels more like a hybrid range phone except for the level of details in 4k and 8k Too bad for the civilization during the nighttime video will definitely look like this. It's actually not bad. 

To be honest it's a bit surprising actually. And also surprise is the difference if you change frame rate I mean this is a typical 4k 30 frames per second video with auto reflections but check this out had a surprise so 4k 60 frames per second very dark feels a bit off. But once I change these 4k 60 FPS in exactly the same scenario to a 4k 30 FPS this happens

a much larger quantity of light which leads me to believe that we're probably using another camera for this the difference in quantity of light is huge. It's actually a decent filming in 4k 30 frames. Okay, we're done with the camera overall I would once again place in between the Galaxy S 20 series and the S 21. And as far as connectivity is concerned you have all the bells and whistles. I mean you do have 5g you also have Wi Fi six here. There's also NFC for your payment needs. There is Bluetooth 5.2 To connect two pair of headphones at the same time, GPS dual band, we have an infrared emitter here on the top side, you can use the phone echo remote for your TV set. And we also have USBC 2.0. At the bottom, the calls were loud and clear. And we also did perform some speed tests. So let's see how that panned out. This is actually a fast.com test 590 mega per second repeated multiple times 650 megabit per second upload. And we have a series of download tests here. 675 mega per second download speed, and 687 excuse me, 697 megabits upload speeds, I will say we're doing quite fine when it comes to this. Now as far as the software is concerned, we have done a ton of reviews of the Xiaomi phones this year. It's the same experience. I mean, it's me why 12.5 applied on top of Android 11 we have the Google News Feed here we have the recent like bs on two columns with the ability to clean everything and do a security scan. 

The drop down section is actually split in the control center inspired by iOS and the Notification Center which you can see here we can also unify them in a typical Android experience but show me wants to stand out. Aside from the recent you also have floating windows for an extra layer of you know multitasking, pinch the screen and you're greeted with some excellent looking wallpapers the super wallpapers which have geometry far away rings, the rings of Saturn, which I honestly don't remember seeing actually tested most of them and they have the super cool dynamic 3d effects, which will probably go into enjoy. You also have the home one and the red planet. And let's see how this one is. That's pretty mind blowing. 

Okay, we also have themes so you can change the design of your phone and the look, you have widgets. And you also have the app drawer which is organized in categories at the top communication the theme was photography, tools, news, shopping and games. Now aside from these if you want to quickly get into the settings, we have the connectivity options always on display sound notification and control center teams password security. I'm using this power button and its fingerprint scanner for the log it's quite snappy, that digital wellbeing and Parental Control extra settings here like the quick ball collection of widgets one handed more than screen recorder. Special Features include the game toolbar for gamers which sometimes is activated by World benchmarks. And I will say that's about it, give or take a few apps the most useful one of them's being called security which is basically your hub for everything performance related. There is a cleaner security scan, there is a battery area there is a booster there's Facebook cleaner, and so much more. I think we've covered everything and if you have on there is always the text review for the handset. Now, let's go back here and show you our website some more and let's talk about the pros and cons of buying the Xiaomi 11 the pro on the pro side we we obviously got the premium built here in premium materials and the imitation of metal from the glass back is interesting. 

The screen is excellent actually one of the best we've seen around I have to admit that it's one of the best printers on the market. I'm talking about the fact we have Dolby Vision 120 hertz and the whole HDR thing. Also bright and crisp, solid performance all around when it comes to the Snapdragon 888 and enough Ram. Okay battery life and very fast charging the fastest on the market. Great stereo speakers fast Wi Fi good selfies, good close ups and bokya was also nice. This encourages if you're not talking about the vegetation, and three major Android updates, those are the pros and the cons. The back gets a bit smudgy and stained by fingerprints there is no ip 68 no wireless charging ports the position for the video let's not call it poor let's call it underwhelming rather, I would also mention the lack of a proper level of zoom.

I will also remind you of the ultra wide shots of taken during the nighttime which were also underwhelming. Some oversaturation here and there in photos and videos were lacking optical image stabilization. And I would say that the selfies were a bit white in the sun. That's it. So basically the phone covers everything you need except for optical image stabilization and zoom is definitely a traveler's phone because travelers are on the go. And the fact that you can charge it in around 15 to 2025 minutes is a big plus if you're a traveler, a traveler Danita 108 megapixel camera, which is quite solid and also needs a dependable selfie camera which we also check out and needs to consume videos on this very crisp Bright screen. 

So if you don't need optical image stabilization and a lot of zoom, this covers all the other aspects. It's a media phone it's a media creation for you can create content on it and consume content with it. And it got some pretty solid speakers with Harman Kardon and Dolby Atmos. So media phone with a lot of power in 3d future proof. There's the best description for the Xiaomi 11 D Pro.