Xiaomi’s Mi 10T Professional was introduced in India again in September 2020. It was a stable, premium smartphone filled with options and spectacular {hardware}. Properly over a 12 months later, Xiaomi has lastly give you a successor. Like most of Xiaomi’s current premium and mid-range units, this new smartphone drops the “Mi” model and is solely referred to as the Xiaomi 11T Professional.
Going solely by its specs, it is clear that the Xiaomi 11T Professional is a big improve over the Mi 10T Pro (Review), however on the similar time, it is vitally much like the lower-priced Mi 11X Professional. The Xiaomi 11T Professional has an AMOLED panel which helps Dolby Imaginative and prescient, an up to date Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC, and 120W charging. These {hardware} options additionally make the 11T Professional stand out from competing premium smartphones within the sub-Rs. 40,000 worth phase. However is it an all-rounder? Let’s discover out.
Xiaomi 11T Professional worth in India
The Xiaomi 11T Professional is available in three variants and three finishes. There is a base variant with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, priced at Rs. 39,999 in India. That is adopted by a variant with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage which is priced at Rs. 41,999, and eventually, the top-of-the-line variant has 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and is priced at Rs. 43,999. The three finishes are referred to as Moonlight White, Meteorite Black, and Celestial Blue. The 12GB variant is simply accessible within the black and blue finishes. I obtained the top-end variant with 12GB of RAM in Celestial Blue.
Xiaomi 11T Professional design
Aside from the dazzling, multi-colour rear panel that you simply get should you select this end, the Xiaomi 11T Professional’s design does not likely stand out. It is not slim and lightweight just like the Vivo V23 Pro (Review), and it includes a flat show. The 11T Professional’s body would not look as spectacular because the metallic body of the iQoo 7 Legend (Review). It is also heavy at 204g and doesn’t havy an official IP ranking, in contrast to its closest sibling, the Mi 11X Pro.
The Xiaomi 11T Professional’s port cutouts really feel a bit unfinished.
What I appreciated about this telephone’s design is that it is snug to carry and straightforward to grip because of the matte-finished glass again and polycarbonate mid-frame. The Corning Gorilla Gorilla Victus scratch-resistant glass on the entrance and rear didn’t choose up fingerprints simply in the course of the assessment interval both. The 6.67-inch AMOLED panel includes a hole-punch cutout for the selfie digicam and has comparatively skinny bezels throughout.
The Xiaomi 11T Professional has a side-mounted fingerprint reader which labored reliably in day-to-day use. Provided that the telephone is sort of chunky, it is not shocking that the digicam module doesn’t protrude by a lot regardless of that includes a 108-megapixel sensor. The field features a 120W charger, a USB cable, a Sort-C to three.5mm adapter, and a clear TPU case.
Xiaomi 11T Professional specs and software program
The Xiaomi 11T Professional options the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC which is utilized by a number of smartphones at round this worth level. The 11T Professional has LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage, however with no slot for increasing it. The telephone helps a number of 5G bands with dual-5G standby. It additionally helps Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, NFC, and the same old satellite tv for pc navigation methods. There’s an infrared emitter for controlling home equipment. The telephone is powered by a 5,000mAh battery which might be charged in a short time utilizing the bundled 120W charger.
The Xiaomi 11T Professional includes a glass again with a body product of polycarbonate
The telephone comes with Xiaomi’s MIUI 12 software program which relies on Android 11. The interface is typical of what you’d count on from a Xiaomi telephone, and there are many preinstalled third-party apps, although these might be uninstalled if wanted. There are additionally loads of Mi-branded apps – a lot of them cannot be eliminated, however some such because the Mi Credit score app, might be. Fortunately, I did not come throughout adverts wherever within the interface.
Given this smartphone’s premium price ticket, I did count on much less bloatware and Android 12 out of the field. Xiaomi has introduced a MIUI 13 software upgrade roadmap, and the 11T Professional needs to be one of many first smartphones to get the replace, beginning within the first quarter of 2022.
Xiaomi 11T Professional efficiency
The Xiaomi 11T Professional has a full-HD+ Tremendous AMOLED show with a 120Hz peak refresh charge and a 480Hz contact sampling charge which is a bit increased than what you get on the Mi 11X Professional (360Hz). By default, the show is ready to the ‘Vivid Color’ profile, which leads to barely oversaturated colors. Switching to the ‘Show P3′ profile resulted in additional natural-looking, correct color tones on display. The show is Dolby Imaginative and prescient licensed, and supported content material on Netflix appeared spectacular with deep blacks and glorious distinction. This, together with its stereo audio system and Dolby Atmos help, made for an immersive video viewing expertise.
The Xiaomi 11T Professional has a 6.67-inch full-HD+ AMOLED show with a 120Hz refresh charge
As is the case with most smartphones at this worth level, efficiency was not an issue. The Xiaomi 11T Professional scored 811 and three,391 factors in Geekbench’s single-core and multi-core exams respectively. It additionally maxed out the 3DMark Sling Shot Excessive GPU check.
The Xiaomi 11T Professional ran most video games that I examined at their default settings, with out breaking a sweat. I performed Asphalt 9: Legends, Honkai Affect, and Name of Responsibility: Cellular, and all of them labored flawlessly with out heating up the telephone. Switching to ‘Very Excessive’ graphics and ‘Max’ body charge in Name of Responsibility: Cellular (with all the results turned on) did trigger the telephone to heat up a bit of, however efficiency didn’t take any noticeable hit.
One odd factor that I observed when enjoying video games was that the display’s refresh was all the time capped at 60Hz. This mainly signifies that video games will not be allowed to carry out past that restrict even when the {hardware} is able to higher.
The Sport Turbo app is sort of helpful for tweaking your cell gaming expertise
The Sport Turbo app permits you to optimise the Xiaomi 11T Professional’s {hardware} for video games. There are per-game optimisations and customers can tweak the GPU (to deal with image high quality, efficiency, or increased body charges) and contact controls (swipe response, aiming accuracy, and so on.), amongst many issues. I observed a lot better responsiveness with the swipe response and aiming accuracy settings set to the best worth in Name of Responsibility: Cellular, in comparison with the default setting. All in all, the 11T Professional is a really succesful gaming smartphone.
With a 5,000mAh battery, I did not count on any points when it comes to battery life from the Xiaomi 11T Professional and it undoubtedly delivered. With my informal use (which included some gaming and pictures), I acquired about two days of use from a single cost, and this was with the show’s refresh charge set to 120Hz. Our normal HD video loop battery check additionally noticed a robust end result; the telephone ran for 16 hours and 21 minutes, which is about the identical time that Vivo’s ultra-premium X70 Pro+ (Review) managed.
The Xiaomi 11T Professional has a 108-megapixel main rear-facing digicam
Charging the telephone was certainly fascinating because of the 120W quick charging functionality. The Xiaomi 11T Professional went from zero to a completely charged state in simply 41 minutes, which is a superb time for a 5000mAh battery. Surprisingly, the 120W charger isn’t a lot bigger than the extra widespread 33W charger that Xiaomi ships with its mid-range smartphones.
Xiaomi 11T Professional cameras
The Xiaomi 11T Professional has three rear-facing cameras: a 108-megapixel main digicam that captures 12-megapixel binned photographs by default, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle digicam, and a 5-megapixel macro digicam. Selfie duties are dealt with by a 16-megapixel entrance digicam. The digicam app is much like what we have seen on different Xiaomi telephones, with a effectively laid-out interface and easy accessibility to essential modes and settings. The telephone helps 8K video recording and might even document in HDR at as much as 4K. With the latter enabled, the body charge is restricted to 30fps in any respect accessible resolutions.
Xiaomi 11T Professional daylight digicam samples. Prime to backside: Macro digicam, main digicam, Extremely-wide-angle digicam (faucet to see full measurement)
Photographs taken in daylight confirmed good element and dynamic vary. Whether or not I used to be taking pictures objects or folks, the extent of sharpness was good and never extreme. The 108-megapixel digicam’s shallow depth of subject additionally meant that I hardly ever wanted to make use of the ‘Portrait’ mode when photographing objects or folks. I discovered myself switching to this mode solely once I wanted to blur issues within the background deliberately. Nevertheless, as a result of limitations of the first digicam’s sensor measurement and lens, I used to be not in a position to get near an object with out switching to the macro digicam.
The 5-megapixel macro digicam on the Xiaomi 11T Professional has an extended focal size than the first digicam, successfully providing a 2X zoom (50mm). It could actually deal with topics between 3cm and 7cm away, and did an excellent job of capturing detailed macro photographs in daylight. The sharpness of those photographs was a bit on the upper facet however autofocus was fast sufficient, which even allowed me to shoot usable video clips with this digicam. You will want regular palms or must mount the telephone on a tripod when taking pictures macro movies, as these can come out fairly shaky in any other case.
Selfies taken each indoors and open air with the Mi 11T Professional appeared fairly sharp, and had good dynamic vary. Portrait selfies had good edge detection however with restricted dynamic vary when taking pictures in opposition to the sunshine, as vivid backgrounds such because the sky would usually be overexposed. Issues took a flip for the more severe in low mild – selfies appeared oversharpened, lacked depth, and had poor texture element even when I had switched to Night time mode.
Xiaomi 11T Professional low-light digicam samples. Prime to backside: Selfie in Night time mode, Auto mode, Night time mode (faucet to see full measurement)
In low mild, the primary rear digicam in Auto mode switches to an extended publicity of as much as two seconds by default. The shutter pace is set by the quantity of obtainable mild, and you may override this by dismissing the popup that seems, however outcomes had been higher when permitting it to occur. That is most likely non-compulsory as a result of the primary digicam lacks optical picture stabilisation (OIS), which the Mi 10T Professional did have.
Switching to Night time mode, photographs pack in much more element, however you will have to attend longer to seize and save every shot. In my expertise, the outcomes had been well worth the wait, because the digicam was in a position to extract much more element from dimly lit scenes. Whereas low-light outcomes had been fairly good general, the shortage of OIS usually resulted in photographs that weren’t as sharp as they might have been.
The ultra-wide-angle digicam captured common photographs in daylight, with noticeable barrel distortion and purple fringing alongside the perimeters of objects. Low-light photographs got here out smooth and had been fairly weak on element.
Movies captured by the Xiaomi 11T Professional in daylight got here out clear, and with good element and dynamic vary. Stabilisation was fairly good in any respect recording resolutions. Turning on HDR helped enhance distinction and accurately uncovered brighter areas of movies too. 8K video footage appeared crisp however lacked stabilisation and was usually too shaky to be usable, particularly if recorded when strolling. The telephone additionally provides an HDR mode for selfie movies at 1080p 30fps. Whereas such footage had higher dynamic vary, it was low on element with flat textures. 1080p movies at 60fps (with HDR turned off) had higher element and the footage appeared much less uneven.
In low mild, I acquired one of the best outcomes when taking pictures at 4K 30fps. Movies shot in HDR appeared a bit boring and darkish however publicity was managed higher, notably in brighter areas (comparable to billboards, streetlights and so on.). 60fps footage in low mild appeared a bit too darkish and boring. There was a slight shimmer in any respect resolutions when strolling round in low mild.
Whether or not it is taking pictures photographs or recording movies, turning on the digicam app’s AI mode usually led to exaggerated colors, which appeared unrealistic, so I most well-liked holding it off.
Verdict
The Xiaomi 11T Professional is a stable premium smartphone, and can attraction to anybody searching for digicam efficiency, show high quality, battery life, and uncooked energy beneath Rs. 40,000.
After utilizing the Xiaomi 11T Professional for greater than per week, it is clear that this telephone comes near being an excellent all-rounder. Apart from its weak low-light selfie digicam efficiency and a great deal of preinstalled apps, every little thing else checks out simply high-quality. 120W charging is at present the quickest we now have seen on a smartphone, and the AMOLED show is high notch when it comes to high quality. Dolby Imaginative and prescient help is icing on the cake.
That mentioned, I’ve seen higher low-light digicam efficiency from the iQoo 7 Legend (Review), which has OIS in its main digicam and autofocus in its ultra-wide-angle digicam. Its design can also be much more polished, with a metallic and glass physique, however it takes a giant blow in the case of battery life.
Sadly for the Xiaomi 11T Professional, Samsung’s Galaxy S20 FE 5G (Review) with all its premium options is now accessible at Rs. 39,999, after the entry of the Galaxy S21 FE (Review). It additionally packs in options comparable to wi-fi charging and has an IP68 ranking, which only a few different smartphones on this phase have.
There’s additionally the Xiaomi Mi 11X Pro (Review) which packs in comparable {hardware}, minus a couple of issues comparable to the larger battery and ultra-fast charging. It is at present on sale at Rs. 36,999 and looks as if higher worth for these on a good funds, however who nonetheless need high efficiency.
