Xiaomi 11T Pro review

Xiaomi 11T Pro full review

 Hey everyone Xiaomi is refreshing its

premium phone lineup and dropping theme

branding from their devices but a rose

by any other name would smell as sweet

and the same goes for phones

names and branding adds the cool factor

but what matters is what the

the flagship of this lineup can do

with that I'm Angie for gsm arena and

this is our review of the Xiaomi 11t pro

unsurprisingly the Xiaomi 11t pro shares

the design language of previous me 11

phones including the mi 11 and the mi

11i

perhaps the biggest difference on the

back is a slightly more angular camera

bump it's a massive rectangular one that

makes the phone wobble a bit but with a

case it's not an issue

and we recommend using one at least for

aesthetics the meteorite gray colorway

we have here looks elegant but it gets

smudgy very quickly there's ip53 dust

and splash resistance but we are a bit

disappointed that there's no ip68

protection here

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the front of the 11t pro is protected by

gorilla glass Invictus the frame is made

of aluminum covered by a plastic

exterior and the back is glass

it feels nice in the hand and the frame

provides some grip and contrast to the

the phone's back at 204 grams it's not the

the lightest phone out there though the

buttons are nice and clicky and you'll

find a side mountain fingerprint reader

which is blazing fast super accurate and

quick to set up you should leave the

unlock method to press in settings so

that the phone doesn't attempt to read

your palm by mistake

one of the most striking features of the

11t pro is the 6.6-inch AMOLED display

it has a full HD resolution 10-bit color

for more than a billion colors and has

an adaptive 120hz refresh rate with up

to a

hertz touch sampling rate the adaptive

refresh rate works well and the phone

kept the refresh rate at 60 hertz when

the picture was static or when playing

videos and at 120 hertz throughout the

UI most of the system apps and with some

supported games

when set to auto-brightness the screen

went as bright as 837 nits which is

plenty for great sunlight legibility

colors are fairly accurate whether it's

vivid mode or standard mode and you can

enable an option called adaptive colors

which works similarly to apple's true

tone by adjusting colors based on the

ambient light

the 11t pro supports hdr 10 plus and is

Dolby Vision is capable of launching the phone

offers two standalone speakers on its

top and bottom sides the top one also

doubles as an earpiece they scored a

good mark on our loudness test and had

balanced output

adobe atmos are on by default it improves

the quality of the sound with better

bass and mid-tones switching it off

makes the sound more shallow so you

should leave it as is

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the Xiaomi 11t pro has a large 5 000

milliamp-hour battery and it got a 92

hour endurance reading on our battery

life tests it's okay for a phone with

the snapdragon 888 but we've seen better

what impressed us was the

charging it's crazy fast thanks to the

120-watt Xiaomi hyper charger in just

five minutes the battery was already at

40 percent and for a full charge in our

test the phone got from zero to 100 in

21 minutes while that's not quite as

speedy as the 17 minutes Xiaomi

advertised it's still more than an

impressive result

the Xiaomi 11t pro sports the snapdragon

888 chipset and comes with either 8 or

12 gigabytes of lp ddr5 ram you can also

choose between 128 or 256 gigabytes of

ufs 3.1 based storage the chipset is a

flagship one and you'll get top of the

line performance especially when gaming

the only thing you should keep in mind

is that despite the phone's vapor

chamber based cooling tech the phone

throttled very quickly in our test and

it got unpleasantly hot around its

camera

out of the box, the phone has a mini 12.5

on top of android 11. mini 13 should be

available by the end of the year

Xiaomi has promised three android system

upgrades and four years of security

patches which add to the

longevity of the device we hope other

manufacturers follow suit the UI has

something called super wallpapers which

are dynamic wallpapers that

zoom each time you pass a certain screen

adding to the visual experience of the

phone in general miui is incredibly

customizable it has a theme store which

lets you change wallpapers ringtones

system icons and more

you can choose whether to have an app

drawer or not too there are also a ton

of always-on display themes the curved

edges of the display will flash with

colors when there are notifications a

a feature called pulse light the task

switcher shows all of your recent apps

and two columns and you can press and

hold on to a card to see the options for it

whether that be locking it or using the

split screen shortcut there's a floating

window option in the top left but you

can only have one floating window at a

time

some versions of mui include ads but we

didn't find any on this unit which makes

sense considering how much you're paying

for it

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the Xiaomi 11t pro has a 108 megapixel

main cam that shoots 12-megapixel photos

the phone also has an 8 megapixel

ultrawide and a 5-megapixel telemacrocam

shots we took in broad daylight are good

for the class though not the best we've

seen there's great dynamic range good

contrast and enough detail we didn't

spot any noise either

the sharpening was more hit or miss

some areas were excessively sharpened

and others are okay while colors were

accurate for the most part at times they

seemed punchier and cooler than they

should be in short the shots are very

good but we did expect a little more

from this camera

if you shoot in the full 108 megapixel

resolution and then downsize the photos

yourself

you'll get shots with more accurate

colors more detail and more balanced

sharpening but it's an extra hassle

hopefully, Xiaomi will tone down its

default processing with a future update

if you use the two-time zoom toggle you

will see that zooming is not lossless

there's some minimal processing that

smooths jagged areas but these photos

are merely cropped and upscaled nothing

fancy when shooting portraits the

subjects are nicely detailed and sharp

the background separation seems

proficient and the blur is convincing

though we didn't expect too much from

the ultrawide camera we got some

surprisingly detailed shots from it

noise is notably low there's good

dynamic range and the sharpening was

balanced the colors could be better

though and they could use a small

saturation boost

macro shots were very detailed and

colorful though they had a very shallow

depth of field capturing them was made

even easier thanks to the autofocus

in low light the phone supports auto

night mode so the camera app decides

when and where to use night mode shots

with it were nicely exposed had good

the dynamic range had excellent sharpness

and were rich in detail

color saturation was true to life and we

didn't see much noise

now if you want brighter than

reality shots you should use the manual

night mode it takes a little longer to

capture a photo and shots are noticeably

brighter some of them are sharper and we

spotted more detail in the shadows

while these photos look amazing they're

not as accurate to the real scene

so whether you use it depends on what

you're trying to capture

the steroid camera also has auto night

mode photos look okay with alright

detail natural colors and well-developed

highlights the ultrawide camera really

benefits from the manual night mode

photos have better exposure more detail

and lower noise

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the 11t pro has a quad Bayer 16

megapixel front camera that however

saves shots in the full 16 megapixel

resolution

this means that selfies are a little

softer than they could be

but they're still good

sharpness is acceptable noise is

tolerable and colors and contrast are

very good

the phone can record up to 8k at 30fps

there is no electronic stabilization

here though and there is a limitation of

6 minutes

otherwise, the footage looks good with great

colors contrast foliage and fantastic

dynamic range

detail is more on the average side and

the picture is softer than we'd like

though 8k is a cool feature we really

recommend sticking to 4k

4k videos are brilliant there is a ton

of detail sharpness that's just right

spot-on white balance and colors that

are both accurate and lively

in low light videos have average detail

because there is a lot of aggressive

noise reduction and there's poor dynamic

range

at least the color saturation was good

the Xiaomi 11t pro is the definition of

a great all-rounder photos and videos

are dependable and the speaker setup is

a very good one the old screen is

fantastic the chipset is a flagship one

and the charging is class-leading

of course, it's not perfect and we wish

that there was a zoom camera ip68 water

resistance and that the battery life was

just a bit longer

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now in a few weeks or months when the

price has dropped a little bit this is

a phone that you should check

out