Xiaomi 13 Professional — the Chinese language smartphone producer’s first flagship cellphone to launch in India in 2023 — went on sale in India for the primary time on Friday. This 12 months’s high-end smartphone comes with a hefty price ticket in comparison with its predecessor, the Xiaomi 12 Professional. Nonetheless, it additionally comes with a spread of notable {hardware} upgrades. The Xiaomi 13 Professional is the primary handset from the corporate with Leica-tuned cameras to debut in India. It is usually geared up with Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC below the hood.
On this week’s episode of the Devices 360 podcast Orbital, visitor host and Evaluations Editor Roydon Cerejo talks to Reviewer Pranav Hegde, who spent greater than two weeks with the Xiaomi 13 Pro. Hegde additionally travelled to Barcelona for the lately concluded Cellular World Congress (MWC) 2023, the place Xiaomi launched its newest flagship smartphone. We focus on the most recent Xiaomi 13 Professional smartphone, from its digicam specs to how its latest-generation {hardware} performs with Xiaomi’s MIUI software program.
The Xiaomi 13 Professional is the primary flagship cellphone to debut in India with Leica’s 75mm floating telephoto lens. This handset is geared up with a triple rear digicam setup headlined by a 50-megapixel 1-inch Sony IMX989 main sensor. In the intervening time, there aren’t another smartphones with a 1-inch digicam sensor in India. It additionally encompasses a 50-megapixel floating telephoto sensor, and a 50-megapixel wide-angle sensor. We focus on the digicam efficiency of all three cameras on the most recent episode.
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You additionally get different flagship-grade specs on the Xiaomi 13 Professional, corresponding to Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, together with 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM. The handset sports activities a 6.73-inch 2K OLED show with a refresh fee of as much as 120Hz and a contact sampling fee of 240Hz. This implies it’s on par with different high-end smartphones launched earlier this 12 months.
{Hardware} specs on a smartphone are solely nearly as good because the software program it runs on, and fortunately, Xiaomi’s newest high-end handset is provided with a lean model of MIUI 14, minus any bloatware. You can too count on to see updates by Android 16, plus two years of safety updates.
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This cellphone does not have an official IP68 ranking for mud and water resistance, not like the Xiaomi 13 Professional mannequin that was launched globally. However, the corporate has said that the handset conforms to IP68 requirements. Not like the OnePlus 11 5G, the Xiaomi 13 Professional presents assist for wi-fi charging and reverse wi-fi charging. This implies you possibly can cost the cellphone wirelessly at 50W utilizing Xiaomi’s proprietary commonplace, or slowly with the extra extensively supported Qi commonplace.
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