1 00:00:00,130 --> 00:00:03,290 - It wasn't that long ago that a Xiaomi phone was off my list 2 00:00:03,290 --> 00:00:07,080 for potential daily drivers, just for being a Xiaomi phone. 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,990 The cameras weren't very good. The skins were ugly and unintuitive, 4 00:00:10,990 --> 00:00:15,320 and you could pretty much kiss your Android updates goodbye. 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:20,680 But a lot of that has changed. And the Mi 11 Ultra looks like a serious contender 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,440 for daily driver. I gotta say, right off the hop 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:29,510 I love this little dig at Huawei. You see that? Mi 11 Ultra with easy access 8 00:00:29,510 --> 00:00:33,620 to the Google apps you use most. (laughing) 9 00:00:33,620 --> 00:00:36,920 You can tell who their primary competitor is, right? 10 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,380 Look at that, look how hard that was. 11 00:00:40,380 --> 00:00:46,120 A type-C to three and a half mil adapter. Rest of the industry, take notes. 12 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,400 Maybe don't take notes on the pretty unexceptional included case. 13 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:55,550 This is something that's always a challenge with anything but basically an Apple or Samsung phone. 14 00:00:55,550 --> 00:01:01,803 Unless the first party accessories are excellent. You're pretty much stuck with kind of junky options, 15 00:01:02,790 --> 00:01:06,440 but the phone itself, this is where things get really interesting. 16 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,660 This thing is freaking top spec. 17 00:01:09,660 --> 00:01:14,030 We're talking Snapdragon 888 up to 12 gigs of RAM, 18 00:01:14,030 --> 00:01:18,240 up to 256 gigs of storage and good Lord. 19 00:01:20,620 --> 00:01:25,923 That is not a camera bump. That is a camera mountain. 20 00:01:27,803 --> 00:01:31,390 It's at the point where it's not, this isn't even a camera bump anymore. 21 00:01:31,390 --> 00:01:35,430 It's like having another smaller phone attached to the back of your phone. 22 00:01:35,430 --> 00:01:41,180 I mean, look at this phone, it's got a camera, it's got a full, you know, glass front. 23 00:01:41,180 --> 00:01:44,300 It's got a screen, that's right. 24 00:01:44,300 --> 00:01:48,940 There's a little, 250 nit. I think it's like a 1.1 inch screen on the back. 25 00:01:48,940 --> 00:01:52,600 And it serves a couple of functions. You can use it as a preview for your selfies. 26 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,300 So, we're gonna check that out in a moment, as well as as an always on display 27 00:01:56,300 --> 00:02:01,230 to just give you notifications I guess, if you're the kind of monster 28 00:02:01,230 --> 00:02:06,900 that lays your phone face down on the desk because you're not familiar with the basic concept 29 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:10,970 that little micro grains of crap that sit on the top of things 30 00:02:10,970 --> 00:02:17,140 are what scratch your freaking screen. Oh, conveniently Xiaomi has included 31 00:02:17,140 --> 00:02:20,410 a built-in screen protector that contours reasonably well 32 00:02:20,410 --> 00:02:24,750 to the curved glass. And I didn't want it dark too many marks for the camera bump 33 00:02:24,750 --> 00:02:30,200 because the included camera is really impressive. Okay, we've got three lenses on the back. 34 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:35,040 We've got a Telephoto that does 5X Optical Zoom. That's a 48 megapixel camera. 35 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,350 We've got an ultra wide, that's also 48 megapixels, 36 00:02:38,350 --> 00:02:41,473 and a 50 megapixel mainstream shooter. 37 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:48,660 I mean, it's thick enough that I could see this getting caught on your pocket, 38 00:02:48,660 --> 00:02:51,730 Like let's do. I mean, it's been a while since I've done a pocket test, 39 00:02:51,730 --> 00:02:56,013 but Andy, you ready for a pocket test? Okay, let's do a pocket test here. 40 00:02:59,290 --> 00:03:02,760 It's not that smooth, you know, getting it out easy though. 41 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:07,610 Okay, let's say I was more of a camera down kind of gentlemen. 42 00:03:07,610 --> 00:03:12,007 Okay, that definitely goes in easier. Okay, what if I was a left hmm. 43 00:03:12,910 --> 00:03:16,350 See as long as I'm coming around, 44 00:03:16,350 --> 00:03:21,630 Oh, that's still a little, oh boy. I'm thinking, especially the ladies with tighter pockets 45 00:03:21,630 --> 00:03:26,463 we might have to get a lady. Special agent Janice is here to investigate, 46 00:03:28,701 --> 00:03:32,143 the usability of this phone. So, here, do you notice anything? 47 00:03:33,540 --> 00:03:37,210 - It's heavy, and it has this extra thickness. 48 00:03:37,210 --> 00:03:41,510 - It does, it has, I think extra thickness is a good way to describe it. 49 00:03:41,510 --> 00:03:47,220 - I can try my back pocket. That's pretty typical, just like sticking out. 50 00:03:47,220 --> 00:03:52,256 - Yeah, but did it go in easily? - No, well, coming out actually was worse, 51 00:03:52,256 --> 00:03:55,630 'cause of the way the seam is. - Oh cause of the way the seam works. 52 00:03:55,630 --> 00:04:01,623 - When I took it out it definitely caught on the, going in is fine, coming out is slightly weird. 53 00:04:02,540 --> 00:04:06,635 I don't feel like it's gonna rip my pockets off. - Got it, okay, all right, thank you. 54 00:04:06,635 --> 00:04:08,873 - No problem. - Thank you very much. Thanks technology. 55 00:04:11,950 --> 00:04:17,453 Oh my goodness, holy crap, the balance of this phone, 56 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,510 it is very, 57 00:04:22,510 --> 00:04:27,403 top heavy. Like does that look like about 50% Andy or halfway? 58 00:04:29,940 --> 00:04:33,990 Let's take a short break from the chunkiness though. And talk about charging for a moment. 59 00:04:33,990 --> 00:04:39,690 It's got a 5,000 milliampere battery, includes a 67 Watts charger. 60 00:04:39,690 --> 00:04:43,560 Apparently it even supports 67 Watts wirelessly. 61 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,790 I'm more of a slow charging kind of guy, but your mileage may vary on that. 62 00:04:47,790 --> 00:04:51,340 Okay, there's no putting this off then, normally I'd want to spend time now, 63 00:04:51,340 --> 00:04:56,210 talking about the 120 Hertz display. Oh, oh, oh. 64 00:04:56,210 --> 00:05:00,200 So smooth, oh, okay. That is really smooth. 65 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:03,640 Okay, it runs at 3,200 by 1400 resolution. 66 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:07,090 So, super high res. 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It's may, there, pickaboo. Okay, let's switch over to the 5X. 84 00:06:21,590 --> 00:06:27,610 Okay. That is a sharp Telephoto 85 00:06:27,610 --> 00:06:31,010 and actually pretty pleasing natural voca to it as well. 86 00:06:31,010 --> 00:06:34,520 How about the ultra wide? Now you can really see the studio there. 87 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,730 Interestingly Andy's life comes back into his skin a little bit more 88 00:06:38,730 --> 00:06:43,190 with the ultra wide. Thing you gotta remember guys, is that your different lenses 89 00:06:43,190 --> 00:06:48,300 are completely different imaging pipelines, so you can get very, very different color reproduction 90 00:06:48,300 --> 00:06:51,163 from one to the next. So here's our Telephoto. 91 00:06:52,380 --> 00:06:56,880 Here's our regular, and here's our ultra wide. 92 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:03,310 So you can really see that the reds are more rich in red on this ultra wide. 93 00:07:03,310 --> 00:07:07,420 This is our Desk Pad lttstore.com. They are a little bit more muted, 94 00:07:07,420 --> 00:07:13,030 on both of these other ones. Man, that's a cool design lttstore.com. 95 00:07:13,030 --> 00:07:16,957 Creepy one. (Andy laughing) 96 00:07:16,957 --> 00:07:23,070 One cool feature, is it supports recording video in up to 8K which frankly, 97 00:07:23,070 --> 00:07:27,107 a 24 FPS which frankly nobody should do. 98 00:07:27,107 --> 00:07:29,774 - [Andy] Dude, oh, what is that? 99 00:07:31,140 --> 00:07:34,480 - It's 8K on a mobile phone. 100 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,800 Like there's no point. They just don't have the sensor size 101 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:42,433 to record 8K, To record 8K. 102 00:07:43,370 --> 00:07:46,680 Wow those speakers sound pretty good. You know, that's a funny thing, 103 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,890 they've got dual stereo speakers tuned by Harman Kardon. 104 00:07:50,890 --> 00:07:53,910 But Harman Kardon got bought by Samsung like ages ago. 105 00:07:53,910 --> 00:07:57,690 Like how weird is that, going to a company that's owned 106 00:07:57,690 --> 00:08:02,700 by one of your primary competitors? For help tuning your speakers on your phone, right? 107 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:07,150 You know what? There is jutter cause it's 24 FPS 108 00:08:07,150 --> 00:08:11,180 but the preview is way worse than the actual recording. 109 00:08:11,180 --> 00:08:15,120 Right, of course. One of the features that I've been really supportive of, 110 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:20,980 even though there's never been a device that's implemented it, that I've been willing to actually use, is having a display 111 00:08:20,980 --> 00:08:25,770 on the back of the phone, so that you don't really need a selfie camera, right? 112 00:08:25,770 --> 00:08:29,970 Because if you could just use your primary shooter every single time, 113 00:08:29,970 --> 00:08:33,240 why would you need like a mediocre selfie camera? 114 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:37,750 This one right here is 20 megapixels which is like, fine, I guess, 115 00:08:37,750 --> 00:08:41,150 I could take me some selfies, you know, 116 00:08:41,150 --> 00:08:44,370 just like that. But what if I didn't have to do that? 117 00:08:44,370 --> 00:08:47,720 What if instead I could use the rear camera 118 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:51,133 with their like selfie assist thing? Okay, how do I do this though? 119 00:08:51,133 --> 00:08:53,863 Oh, hello, how are we doing here? 120 00:08:54,810 --> 00:08:59,170 Why the hell would I wanna take a picture like this? 121 00:08:59,170 --> 00:09:01,453 But I guess, oh boy, 122 00:09:04,020 --> 00:09:05,733 am I in a video recording mode? 123 00:09:08,050 --> 00:09:13,440 What am I looking at? I guess you could just see the composition of it and all. 124 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,740 Hmm, okay that looks it's always on display. 125 00:09:16,740 --> 00:09:21,960 This has to be like a super simple thing that I'm just totally missing. 126 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:26,540 Rear display, for crying out loud. It was right there the whole time. 127 00:09:26,540 --> 00:09:31,540 Okay, let's take the greatest selfie of all time. 128 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,170 Now you can't really see very well what you're taking a picture of, 129 00:09:37,170 --> 00:09:41,100 but there's no doubt that the image quality of this selfie 130 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:45,020 vastly exceeds what you can get with the actual selfie camera. 131 00:09:45,020 --> 00:09:49,050 I mean, look at this. I clearly need to pluck my eyebrows. 132 00:09:49,050 --> 00:09:54,063 I got a serious wicked mono brow going on. Let's see if the selfie camera can catch it. 133 00:09:55,883 --> 00:09:58,910 (selfie camera shuttering) Yeah, it's got it, but it's definitely blurrier. 134 00:09:58,910 --> 00:10:03,200 You see that? Very noticeable. So if you're not that into grooming, 135 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:08,940 then I guess you'd probably prefer doing things real. Oh, I never went through the IO and all that. 136 00:10:08,940 --> 00:10:13,570 So USB-C port for charging, got one of your speakers right here, 137 00:10:13,570 --> 00:10:18,790 got your dual SIM slot, over in the side you got a whole whack load and nothing 138 00:10:18,790 --> 00:10:23,970 over on this side, you've got look at that, another speaker an IR blaster, 139 00:10:23,970 --> 00:10:27,730 freaking love it, especially now that Logitech Harmony remotes aren't going to be a thing. 140 00:10:27,730 --> 00:10:30,730 I guess we're down to using phones as universal remotes. 141 00:10:30,730 --> 00:10:34,910 Volume rocker and of course lock button. That's another interesting feature. 142 00:10:34,910 --> 00:10:39,330 So it's got Bluetooth 5.2, which comes with additional bandwidth 143 00:10:39,330 --> 00:10:42,500 as well as some really cool functionality, including the ability 144 00:10:42,500 --> 00:10:47,140 to have a single source go-to multiple devices. 145 00:10:47,140 --> 00:10:52,550 Now I wanna talk a bit more about this display, 900 nits maximum brightness under normal conditions 146 00:10:52,550 --> 00:10:56,690 1700 nits peak brightness in HDR 147 00:10:56,690 --> 00:11:01,030 and support for both HDR 10 plus and Dolby Vision, 148 00:11:01,030 --> 00:11:04,730 which is pretty unreal. And we're going to have to give it a minute 149 00:11:04,730 --> 00:11:08,300 to not be at a craptastic bit right here. 150 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:12,410 Why you do this? I'm trying to look at a pretty display 151 00:11:12,410 --> 00:11:16,370 and you're ruining it Netflix. Okay, that way it's picking up a little bit. 152 00:11:16,370 --> 00:11:21,120 That looks way better. Not bad, okay, I wanna crank these speakers though. 153 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:25,170 So far, very promising. (video clip playing on phone) 154 00:11:25,170 --> 00:11:31,193 That's too much. (video clip playing on phone) 155 00:11:31,193 --> 00:11:35,863 Pretty good. (chuckles) Pretty good good job Samsung. 156 00:11:36,742 --> 00:11:41,030 (Andy laughing) Couple other housekeeping items then not only is it a high refresh rate display 157 00:11:41,030 --> 00:11:44,910 it supports adaptive sync. So, 30, 60, 90, and 120 Hertz. 158 00:11:44,910 --> 00:11:49,450 So it can drop down if needed. It's got IP 68 water resistance 159 00:11:49,450 --> 00:11:52,610 and the Gorilla glass on the front, which is their Victus glass. 160 00:11:52,610 --> 00:11:57,340 And then on the back, of course, ceramic. So, should be fairly drop and scratch resistant. 161 00:11:57,340 --> 00:12:03,500 But of course I'll leave it to the bold experts to tell us exactly how it holds up. 162 00:12:03,500 --> 00:12:09,290 As far as that goes. I think that's pretty much it for my take, it's heavy, 163 00:12:09,290 --> 00:12:14,290 it's not particularly well-balanced, but it is certainly, 164 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,210 for a weapon snappy, the screen and speakers are great. 165 00:12:18,210 --> 00:12:23,000 And the camera's looking pretty good so far with a little bit of work required in my opinion, 166 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,353 on the color science. But other than that, 167 00:12:26,410 --> 00:12:31,100 I'm pretty darn impressed by this thing. So subscribe to ShortCircuit and see more videos 168 00:12:31,100 --> 00:12:33,550 kind of like this or different ones I don't know.