WEBVTT 00:00:00.130 --> 00:00:03.290 - It wasn't that long ago that a Xiaomi phone was off my list 00:00:03.290 --> 00:00:07.080 for potential daily drivers, just for being a Xiaomi phone. 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:10.990 The cameras weren't very good. The skins were ugly and unintuitive, 00:00:10.990 --> 00:00:15.320 and you could pretty much kiss your Android updates goodbye. 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 00:00:20.680 --> 00:00:24.440 for daily driver. I gotta say, right off the hop 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:29.510 I love this little dig at Huawei. You see that? Mi 11 Ultra with easy access 00:00:29.510 --> 00:00:33.620 to the Google apps you use most. (laughing) 00:00:33.620 --> 00:00:36.920 You can tell who their primary competitor is, right? 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:40.380 Look at that, look how hard that was. 00:00:40.380 --> 00:00:46.120 A type-C to three and a half mil adapter. Rest of the industry, take notes. 00:00:46.120 --> 00:00:49.400 Maybe don't take notes on the pretty unexceptional included case. 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. 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, 00:01:02.790 --> 00:01:06.440 but the phone itself, this is where things get really interesting. 00:01:06.440 --> 00:01:09.660 This thing is freaking top spec. 00:01:09.660 --> 00:01:14.030 We're talking Snapdragon 888 up to 12 gigs of RAM, 00:01:14.030 --> 00:01:18.240 up to 256 gigs of storage and good Lord. 00:01:20.620 --> 00:01:25.923 That is not a camera bump. That is a camera mountain. 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. 00:01:31.390 --> 00:01:35.430 It's like having another smaller phone attached to the back of your phone. 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. 00:01:41.180 --> 00:01:44.300 It's got a screen, that's right. 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. 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. 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 00:01:56.300 --> 00:02:01.230 to just give you notifications I guess, if you're the kind of monster 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 00:02:06.900 --> 00:02:10.970 that little micro grains of crap that sit on the top of things 00:02:10.970 --> 00:02:17.140 are what scratch your freaking screen. Oh, conveniently Xiaomi has included 00:02:17.140 --> 00:02:20.410 a built-in screen protector that contours reasonably well 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 00:02:24.750 --> 00:02:30.200 because the included camera is really impressive. Okay, we've got three lenses on the back. 00:02:30.200 --> 00:02:35.040 We've got a Telephoto that does 5X Optical Zoom. That's a 48 megapixel camera. 00:02:35.040 --> 00:02:38.350 We've got an ultra wide, that's also 48 megapixels, 00:02:38.350 --> 00:02:41.473 and a 50 megapixel mainstream shooter. 00:02:43.040 --> 00:02:48.660 I mean, it's thick enough that I could see this getting caught on your pocket, 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, 00:02:51.730 --> 00:02:56.013 but Andy, you ready for a pocket test? Okay, let's do a pocket test here. 00:02:59.290 --> 00:03:02.760 It's not that smooth, you know, getting it out easy though. 00:03:02.760 --> 00:03:07.610 Okay, let's say I was more of a camera down kind of gentlemen. 00:03:07.610 --> 00:03:12.007 Okay, that definitely goes in easier. Okay, what if I was a left hmm. 00:03:12.910 --> 00:03:16.350 See as long as I'm coming around, 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 00:03:21.630 --> 00:03:26.463 we might have to get a lady. Special agent Janice is here to investigate, 00:03:28.701 --> 00:03:32.143 the usability of this phone. So, here, do you notice anything? 00:03:33.540 --> 00:03:37.210 - It's heavy, and it has this extra thickness. 00:03:37.210 --> 00:03:41.510 - It does, it has, I think extra thickness is a good way to describe it. 00:03:41.510 --> 00:03:47.220 - I can try my back pocket. That's pretty typical, just like sticking out. 00:03:47.220 --> 00:03:52.256 - Yeah, but did it go in easily? - No, well, coming out actually was worse, 00:03:52.256 --> 00:03:55.630 'cause of the way the seam is. - Oh cause of the way the seam works. 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. 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. 00:04:06.635 --> 00:04:08.873 - No problem. - Thank you very much. Thanks technology. 00:04:11.950 --> 00:04:17.453 Oh my goodness, holy crap, the balance of this phone, 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:22.510 it is very, 00:04:22.510 --> 00:04:27.403 top heavy. Like does that look like about 50% Andy or halfway? 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. 00:04:33.990 --> 00:04:39.690 It's got a 5,000 milliampere battery, includes a 67 Watts charger. 00:04:39.690 --> 00:04:43.560 Apparently it even supports 67 Watts wirelessly. 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. 00:04:47.790 --> 00:04:51.340 Okay, there's no putting this off then, normally I'd want to spend time now, 00:04:51.340 --> 00:04:56.210 talking about the 120 Hertz display. Oh, oh, oh. 00:04:56.210 --> 00:05:00.200 So smooth, oh, okay. That is really smooth. 00:05:00.200 --> 00:05:03.640 Okay, it runs at 3,200 by 1400 resolution. 00:05:03.640 --> 00:05:07.090 So, super high res. But we've got to go straight to the camera, 00:05:07.090 --> 00:05:12.030 because if you're gonna have, this gigantic, fricking hill on it, 00:05:12.030 --> 00:05:16.730 it better have a really impressive camera, you know, this video is brought to you by Grammarly. 00:05:16.730 --> 00:05:21.240 Grammarly is a digital writing assistant that helps you with your grammar and spelling suggestions. 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:26.710 Let me tell you as an employer, flipping use Grammarly on your job application. 00:05:26.710 --> 00:05:30.130 Okay, it's simple to install. It's just a browser extension. 00:05:30.130 --> 00:05:34.410 So you just log in and start typing, and they've even got Grammarly Premium, 00:05:34.410 --> 00:05:38.800 which provides more in depth feedback on your writing. 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Okay, let's switch over to the 5X. 00:06:21.590 --> 00:06:27.610 Okay. That is a sharp Telephoto 00:06:27.610 --> 00:06:31.010 and actually pretty pleasing natural voca to it as well. 00:06:31.010 --> 00:06:34.520 How about the ultra wide? Now you can really see the studio there. 00:06:34.520 --> 00:06:38.730 Interestingly Andy's life comes back into his skin a little bit more 00:06:38.730 --> 00:06:43.190 with the ultra wide. Thing you gotta remember guys, is that your different lenses 00:06:43.190 --> 00:06:48.300 are completely different imaging pipelines, so you can get very, very different color reproduction 00:06:48.300 --> 00:06:51.163 from one to the next. So here's our Telephoto. 00:06:52.380 --> 00:06:56.880 Here's our regular, and here's our ultra wide. 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. 00:07:03.310 --> 00:07:07.420 This is our Desk Pad lttstore.com. They are a little bit more muted, 00:07:07.420 --> 00:07:13.030 on both of these other ones. Man, that's a cool design lttstore.com. 00:07:13.030 --> 00:07:16.957 Creepy one. (Andy laughing) 00:07:16.957 --> 00:07:23.070 One cool feature, is it supports recording video in up to 8K which frankly, 00:07:23.070 --> 00:07:27.107 a 24 FPS which frankly nobody should do. 00:07:27.107 --> 00:07:29.774 - [Andy] Dude, oh, what is that? 00:07:31.140 --> 00:07:34.480 - It's 8K on a mobile phone. 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:37.800 Like there's no point. They just don't have the sensor size 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:42.433 to record 8K, To record 8K. 00:07:43.370 --> 00:07:46.680 Wow those speakers sound pretty good. You know, that's a funny thing, 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:50.890 they've got dual stereo speakers tuned by Harman Kardon. 00:07:50.890 --> 00:07:53.910 But Harman Kardon got bought by Samsung like ages ago. 00:07:53.910 --> 00:07:57.690 Like how weird is that, going to a company that's owned 00:07:57.690 --> 00:08:02.700 by one of your primary competitors? For help tuning your speakers on your phone, right? 00:08:02.700 --> 00:08:07.150 You know what? There is jutter cause it's 24 FPS 00:08:07.150 --> 00:08:11.180 but the preview is way worse than the actual recording. 00:08:11.180 --> 00:08:15.120 Right, of course. One of the features that I've been really supportive of, 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 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? 00:08:25.770 --> 00:08:29.970 Because if you could just use your primary shooter every single time, 00:08:29.970 --> 00:08:33.240 why would you need like a mediocre selfie camera? 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:37.750 This one right here is 20 megapixels which is like, fine, I guess, 00:08:37.750 --> 00:08:41.150 I could take me some selfies, you know, 00:08:41.150 --> 00:08:44.370 just like that. But what if I didn't have to do that? 00:08:44.370 --> 00:08:47.720 What if instead I could use the rear camera 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:51.133 with their like selfie assist thing? Okay, how do I do this though? 00:08:51.133 --> 00:08:53.863 Oh, hello, how are we doing here? 00:08:54.810 --> 00:08:59.170 Why the hell would I wanna take a picture like this? 00:08:59.170 --> 00:09:01.453 But I guess, oh boy, 00:09:04.020 --> 00:09:05.733 am I in a video recording mode? 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. 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:16.740 Hmm, okay that looks it's always on display. 00:09:16.740 --> 00:09:21.960 This has to be like a super simple thing that I'm just totally missing. 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:26.540 Rear display, for crying out loud. It was right there the whole time. 00:09:26.540 --> 00:09:31.540 Okay, let's take the greatest selfie of all time. 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:37.170 Now you can't really see very well what you're taking a picture of, 00:09:37.170 --> 00:09:41.100 but there's no doubt that the image quality of this selfie 00:09:41.100 --> 00:09:45.020 vastly exceeds what you can get with the actual selfie camera. 00:09:45.020 --> 00:09:49.050 I mean, look at this. I clearly need to pluck my eyebrows. 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. 00:09:55.883 --> 00:09:58.910 (selfie camera shuttering) Yeah, it's got it, but it's definitely blurrier. 00:09:58.910 --> 00:10:03.200 You see that? Very noticeable. So if you're not that into grooming, 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. 00:10:08.940 --> 00:10:13.570 So USB-C port for charging, got one of your speakers right here, 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 00:10:18.790 --> 00:10:23.970 over on this side, you've got look at that, another speaker an IR blaster, 00:10:23.970 --> 00:10:27.730 freaking love it, especially now that Logitech Harmony remotes aren't going to be a thing. 00:10:27.730 --> 00:10:30.730 I guess we're down to using phones as universal remotes. 00:10:30.730 --> 00:10:34.910 Volume rocker and of course lock button. That's another interesting feature. 00:10:34.910 --> 00:10:39.330 So it's got Bluetooth 5.2, which comes with additional bandwidth 00:10:39.330 --> 00:10:42.500 as well as some really cool functionality, including the ability 00:10:42.500 --> 00:10:47.140 to have a single source go-to multiple devices. 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 00:10:52.550 --> 00:10:56.690 1700 nits peak brightness in HDR 00:10:56.690 --> 00:11:01.030 and support for both HDR 10 plus and Dolby Vision, 00:11:01.030 --> 00:11:04.730 which is pretty unreal. And we're going to have to give it a minute 00:11:04.730 --> 00:11:08.300 to not be at a craptastic bit right here. 00:11:08.300 --> 00:11:12.410 Why you do this? I'm trying to look at a pretty display 00:11:12.410 --> 00:11:16.370 and you're ruining it Netflix. Okay, that way it's picking up a little bit. 00:11:16.370 --> 00:11:21.120 That looks way better. Not bad, okay, I wanna crank these speakers though. 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:25.170 So far, very promising. (video clip playing on phone) 00:11:25.170 --> 00:11:31.193 That's too much. (video clip playing on phone) 00:11:31.193 --> 00:11:35.863 Pretty good. (chuckles) Pretty good good job Samsung. 00:11:36.742 --> 00:11:41.030 (Andy laughing) Couple other housekeeping items then not only is it a high refresh rate display 00:11:41.030 --> 00:11:44.910 it supports adaptive sync. So, 30, 60, 90, and 120 Hertz. 00:11:44.910 --> 00:11:49.450 So it can drop down if needed. It's got IP 68 water resistance 00:11:49.450 --> 00:11:52.610 and the Gorilla glass on the front, which is their Victus glass. 00:11:52.610 --> 00:11:57.340 And then on the back, of course, ceramic. So, should be fairly drop and scratch resistant. 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. 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, 00:12:09.290 --> 00:12:14.290 it's not particularly well-balanced, but it is certainly, 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:18.210 for a weapon snappy, the screen and speakers are great. 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, 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:25.353 on the color science. But other than that, 00:12:26.410 --> 00:12:31.100 I'm pretty darn impressed by this thing. So subscribe to ShortCircuit and see more videos 00:12:31.100 --> 00:12:33.550 kind of like this or different ones I don't know.