xiaomi 13 Pro what a phone it was
announced at mwc and we've got our hands on it late but guess what this video is
going to be way better than all those other ones don't watch them don't fact
check me but we have something special which is obviously a gift box and we
love those we have the sweet Poco shirt last time that I'm not wearing today I
was told that I'm not allowed to wear that anymore uh
we'll bring it back someday but in the box today
whoa Whoa We got some uh oh
we got like mountaineering gear I don't know I'm guessing this is a phone
carrying thing
it's got a nice card holder on the back and everything too how's it on the neck
scratchy no surprisingly not it's a solid rope it is
I don't know do I look cool we got a a key ring that is a little
piece of rope that has like on it so this phone like past xiaomi phones has a
partnership with Leica I wouldn't necessarily be like Leica hardcore or
heavy duty like something you would take with you on a a rock climbing trip but
what do I know I trust xiaomi take care
of Leica with you on big hikes we also have a nice water bottle that's again
like the satin feel which the the box has I'm not a huge fan of that feel but
luckily that's not what we're focusing on today the xiaomi 13 Pro like I said it comes
in the same kind of like satin feel box that I'm not a fan of because I have
sweaty greasy gamer hands so the box is already kind of gross looking but
otherwise very very minimal designed by xiaomi okay we got this here
got the phone what's in this we got a case this is already a winner also in
the box we have the phone itself that we'll come back to and we have a 120
watt charger so this will be the kind of super fast charger that can charge from
zero to 100 and 19 minutes using a boost
mode or zero to 124 minutes in normal
mode I don't know why you would use one or the other if you're already charging
your phone that fast it's not good on the battery regardless you may as well save that five minutes but
who knows you have the option but luckily if you don't want to use something that's this fast and kind of
wears down your battery you can't do wireless charging which does up to 50
watts and then it does reverse wireless charging of 10 watts as well which is
nice I assume that's better for your battery correct me if I'm wrong all
right let's get down to the phone because that's all there is in the Box no cable or anything like that
the camera bump is the other very noticeable thing with this phone oh it's
already fingerprinting very fingerprinting so we had Labs take a look so which is why someone else has
gotten their grubby little hands on it as well but as you can see this is
big so xiaomi is actually no stranger to
having massive camera bumps on their phones the last one the 12 Pro also had
this big circular camera on it so I actually kind of prefer this look it's a
little bit more I don't want to say subdued because it's still very in your face but I guess it
kind of looks better especially when you put a case on it it's just really thick
at the camera bump otherwise we have it in this nice black color uh I do like
just kind of a black phone to keep it looking Sleek on the front we have the
camera cut out and the 6.73 inch screen
this is a wqhd plus OLED with the
obviously ltpo one Hertz to 120 hertz that most flagships have now going
around the sides we have our volume rocker and power button and I gotta say
they feel good they don't this doesn't feel mushy and you can't push in the
center of the the volume rocker either on the top we have uh two speaker holes
a mic hole and an IR blaster I'm loving
Chinese phones IR blasters again hardly ever useful but when they are it is nice
to have and on the bottom we have our dual nano SIM tray USBC
Michael and the other speakers this does
have dual speakers which we'll take a listen to later with Dolby Atmos but
come on they say the back glass is made of a medical grade bio ceramic I don't
know what that means but it feels good in the hand it doesn't feel too slippery or anything like that on the front here
we do have the curved screen I'm notably
not a fan of curved screens I feel like you get some Maximum touches but we'll
see if that's an Asian we turn it on and it is a Corning Gorilla Glass victus
there is victus 2 now so I'm surprised I didn't use that but victus is only a
year old so it's not that big of a deal and I believe most flagships are using
that as well and as for weight it's uh 229 grams so what is that six pieces of
bread what are the odds it actually is six
pieces of bread so clearly I I eat a lot of bread all right I love eating plain
bread all right let's try on the case I feel like this one's a little too
rubbery like it feels gummy especially again with clammy hands it does not feel
nice in the hand but all right well the last thing to do is get it turned on and see how it actually
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the WAN Show oh this is so big it's
beautiful alright we're in so this is running MIUI 14 which is based on
Android 13 which is nice to see some people have a bit of a love-hate
relationship with me UI but I feel like this newest MIUI 14 phone I saw online
seems to just be a performance boost it eases up Less storage less RAM minimizes
things a bit so it should be less intrusive on your experience I might kind of sway some people over but it is
obviously not just base Android they are
putting skins on it there's quite a bit going on again not all the apps on here
are the ones that come standard I know Labs has taking looks I would have
installed Call of Duty mobile and stuff like that but for example we did not
install Keak car rental which I've never heard
of or unhappy raccoon which again sounds
like a banger but stuff that comes default on the phone that I don't really
think should all right for specs on this guy we do have 12 gigs of RAM and then
it either comes in 256 or 512 gigabytes
of storage which is nice to see 12 gigs of RAM is plenty for most and this does
have the RAM expansion that we're seeing a lot of Chinese phones add that I again
probably wouldn't use which is where it uses the system storage as flash memory
but could degrade your storage over time and you probably won't see a huge
performance difference especially when 12 should be plenty for anything unless
you're doing some crazy stuff on your phone that I don't want to know about
and for SRC we have the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 which we're seeing most of flagships
like the s23s the OnePlus 11. for
fingerprint scanner it is an in-screen one which again I know some people don't like but I seem to have good luck with
from my uh little baby hands I don't have any calluses so let's try it out
and see how fast it is
that feels pretty good what you can't see is that underneath my
finger on the screen actually brightens up which means it is an optical uh
fingerprint scanner so it's taking pretty much a picture of your thumb Samsung uses an ultrasonic fingerprint
scanner so it does it vibrates the screen to get a map of your finger and
so that kind of works better for a lot of people because it doesn't matter if your fingers scarred or wet or dirty
because it seems to just not be affected by that versus an optical one will be
tricked because it doesn't match the image it has originally let's do some
crab Rave so like I said it's the wqhd screen OLED so far it's looking good and
I'm sure it will continue to look good let's take a look and see to make sure
though
it sounds good uh so the speakers do
seem like genuine dual speakers like one side's not way quieter than the other
it's not clipping or anything like that I wouldn't say it's getting especially
loud but we've had it before where again phones will get so loud that it just
sounds distorted and bad and I'd rather have it be limited but sound good
consistently across that spectrum of volume I do have an iPhone 14 here as
well so we'll see how it compares
I think I still prefer the iPhone the
xiaomi 13 Pro definitely feels wider like the Sound Stage feels a bit wider
but I feel like the iPhone's a bit kind of warmer more full and the screen looks
great either way what is interesting here is that because of the higher
incline of the camera bump here we're getting a little bit more glare on the
xiaomi but in person it does look really good and speaking of screen the xiaomi
does have a pretty darn bright one so on
high brightness mode which is like when you're in auto mode and it's senses you're outside or something like that it
can get up to 1200 nits and then what I assume is Peak or maybe specular
brightness can get up to 1900 also with that it does have HDR 10 plus Dolby
Vision all that kind of stuff as well I don't feel like there's still a ton of
content that you can view that with but if you are you know watching a ton of
Netflix on your phone or you watch a lot of kind of artist creators and maybe that will be
beneficial to you all right now let's talk cameras it feels like that's kind
of the main selling point for most people with their phones now is the
cameras so inside is a one inch sensor which I'm not going to explain because
it's been explained on this channel a lot by Brandon you can watch one of his videos or there's a great one by MKBHD
but don't watch this stay right here on our Channel what is also really cool is
that all three cameras on this guy are 50 megapixel I don't know what order the
cameras in but uh I'm gonna say this is the 50 megapixel main camera we have our
50 megapixel telephoto camera which is 3x or about 75 millimeter equivalent for
those people who use actual cameras and then we have our 50 megapixel Ultra wide
the main and telephoto do have Optical image stabilization so if you've got
shaky hands when you're taking photos you don't have to worry about it being
super blurry but the ultra wide unfortunately does not what's also
interesting we'll have to try out was that the main camera doesn't have your grandpa's old Optical image
stabilization it has hyper ois I don't know what that means but they say that
you can take videos while running and it'll still be very very smooth alright
first launch of the camera here we can see we get to select our style so with
this partnership with Leica you can kind of change the look of your photos maybe be more Punchy and contrasty cooler
warmer whatever your kind of feel is to match that Leica film style so we have
fresh and vibrant as the first one to more natural and realistic I am more of
a believer of the kind of more natural looking photos that you then edit to be
vibrant sometimes it can be hard to reduce the amount of punch and contrast
photos have if it's baked into the photo so I'd rather add it in later but it's
nice to have the option on this first launch here alright taking photos here you can see the fan club watching this
is the telephoto we've got 2x which would be just punching in from the main
camera the main camera itself and the ultra
wide interesting to see the differences just in the viewfinder here if the
photos look anything like the viewfinder did these photos are going to look pretty darn good this is the ultra wide
yeah it looks it looks fine not a huge amount of distortion on the edges you
can see a little bit but I wouldn't say anything that's hurting the photo the
main camera again looks great we can zoom in pretty
far and have things look great for video modes it's pretty standard compared to
flagships I can do AK at 24fps or 4K up to 60 and then obviously you can do
1080p video and slow motion up to 1920
FPS but I'm sure at 540p or some other
awful quality so I doubt you'll actually use it but just again right out of the
box let's see how this does this is me taking a video and talking
wow panning jiggling a little going up and down going a little side to side
rotating I don't know tilt pan whatever it's called I'm gonna try punching in
here see how the zoom does wow dramatic oh and you can see the
switch over to the 3x camera where again it gained some quality back it didn't go
pretty far this is 15x and then zooming back out can we go all the way to the
six camera you see it switched to the main camera there the color tones changed all the
way out to the six or point six x Ultra
wide camera wow that looks really good the stabilization worked great again I
wasn't jiggling my hands like a ton but I was going up and down and side to side
and you can barely tell as for the video
quality looks great I am wishing that the main camera had the same tone as the
telephoto so when it actually made the switch over the telephoto James all of a
sudden gained life and was a lot more colorful than compared to the main camera and then you lose even more of
that color and quality as you go to the ultra wide which is disappointing uh it
seems like that telephoto they're using it for their poetry mode as well looks
really good all right now we have the selfie camera doesn't look like there's
a whole lot of smoothing or anything going on I could see all of my pores and
beard hairs and everything looks fine uh rotating around the room
keeps me exposed well I assume it sounds
okay we'll take a listen but I also want to see and make 100 sure if there are
any AI modes on as I believe was the Poco video even when he said No Effects
it had smoothing stuff on which was really disappointing to see okay so once
you click on the uh effects button it
comes up as showing that you are on original and then if you click onto
these it will start to do the effects
so from smooth to slendering your face to making your head
smaller to enlarging your eyes
don't don't use these I mean do what you
want but you're beautiful the way you are and what's interesting I went to
check the settings here and I see there is a teleprompter mode as well so if you
are somebody who's actually using this to read scripts or uh like me where
shorts are gets fully scripted usually have to look ahead but I can just do it right on my phone it's a joke a short
circuit's not fully scripted another thing I want to try is portrait mode
interesting so when I was actually holding it up and taking photos the live
view did not look good like it was missing all of the edges like this is obviously a very tricky subject but
after it's taken the photo and I'm assuming AI or machine learning or blast
processing it's done its work it does look quite a
bit better uh it still obviously misses a little bit of the edges but this is
very very complicated and so it could be hard for it to kind of work out what's
going on but I would still be pretty darn satisfied uh if this was my new uh
Tinder photo now for the part you've all been waiting for gaming I sent this over
to Labs take a look and they gave it a quick once over to see what's going on
and no surprise the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 does great like the OnePlus 11 a solid
60 lock on every game played 62 frames
per second Median on Call of Duty mobile and through all the gameplay
temperatures for the CPU stayed around 47 degrees which 100 degrees is like
where things would start to get real hot and start to throttle itself so 47 is
good and it stays that cool thanks to the 3400 millimeter squared Vapor
chamber so it disperses heat away from the CPU to help disperse that through
the back of the phone and into your hands we haven't been playing super long
like I've been kind of loading up games and obviously taking a picture of the camera it's a little warm I feel my
hands getting a little moist but it's something too crazy and again
performance you're getting it's probably worth that trade-off for the last few
kind of important things about the phone it does have a 4 820 milliamp hour
battery which is a little bit less than this new standard of 5 000 milliamp hour
battery but they claim it still gets 37 hours of calling 19 hours of video
playback and seven hours of gaming which seem pretty darn reasonable doesn't seem
like they're making any lofty claims it's also ip68 water resistant which
again is pretty standard for Flagship phones Wi-Fi seven which is nice and not
available but again makes it more accessible 5G like I said Bluetooth 5.3
and of course it comes in fun colors like black white green and light blue
all this sounds great right applaud for xiaomi
but and there is a major but
two major butts the first being the
price this isn't scheduled for a full release in the States but it costs
1300 euros which is a lot that is more than an
iPhone 14 pro Max it's more than the s23
ultra if you want to stay away from Samsung you don't like iPhone and the
pixel you know there's they've got their own issues and you really really want
something Flagship this seems like it could be a solid choice but then there's
the second big oof which is privacy concerns obviously
uh xiaomi is a Chinese company which means they're obligated to share data
and they've been caught sharing and selling Data before
they say in MIUI 14 they've moved a lot of processes that were done in cloud or
online to being local on the phone but you're gonna have to trust that again
they are still legally obligated to share information when requested and
though they've created servers offshore it's a big trust if you're somebody who
does have issues with that you might be somebody who's like I have nothing to hide I don't worry about it in which
case good on you but for me that would be
almost a stopping point I do see the irony when I do use an Oppo phone but
I've got nothing to hide right it's not
how it works but if you are still interested this does have its European
and wide Asian release on March 8th though it has released in China since
early last year so you can look up reviews and more in-depth looks at this
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