Xiaomi on Monday launched the Mi 11 Ultra, a phone it claims can go neck and neck with skilled cameras in photography. During the launch occasion, Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun known as the Mi 11 Ultra a turning point for smartphones, breaking with convention to examine it with the Sony RX100 M7 alternatively of the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra or iPhone 12 Pro Max.
All this may perhaps sound like a stretch but Xiaomi has sturdy hardware backing these claims. The brand also showed off a Mi 11 Ultra against Sony camera comparison on stage with incredibly promising benefits. The customary DxOMark assessment puts Xiaomi’s new phone properly above the Huawei Mate 40 Pro Plus creating it the greatest smartphone camera readily available today – if you are into that sort of point. So, there is certainly a lot to look forward to.
Coming to that camera hardware, the Mi 11 Ultra is actually specced-out, even more so than either of the phones we talked about above, or something else in the market place today. It has a 50MP main camera with a massive 1/1.12-inch Samsung GN2 sensor (a 1st for any smartphone at the moment) sitting behind an optically stabilized f/1.95 aperture lens. This is paired with two 48MP cameras (Sony IMX598), one with an ultra-wide-angle lens behind an f/2.2 lens with 128-degree FOV and yet another with a periscope-style telephoto lens – the setup one ups Samsung for a total of 120x zoom.
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If the rear setup wasn’t jam-packed currently, Xiaomi has also squeezed a 1.1-inch rear AMOLED “always-on” show right here for rear camera selfies and notifications.
Rest of the Mi 11 Pro is no slouch either. It is a flagship via and via with a 6.81-inch E4 AMOLED show with a 2K or QHD+ resolution and 120Hz refresh price (480Hz touch sampling). Not only is it HDR10+ certified, it can also play Dolby Vision content like the iPhone 12.
Under the hood, the Mi 11 Ultra packs the Snapdragon 888 with up to 12GB LPDDR5 RAM and up to 256GB UFS3.1 storage. Software inside the phone is Xiaomi’s MIUI 12.5 which is based on Android 11. Powering the phone is a 5,000mAh battery with 67W speedy wired and wireless charging. Rounding off the package are Harmon Kardon dual stereo speakers and IP68 water and dust resistance – that bit is a 1st for any Xiaomi phone.
The Mi 11 Ultra has a ceramic back (readily available in white and black) and Corning Gorilla Glass Victus on the front held collectively by a metallic frame.
Xiaomi held two separate launch events today, one precise to China and yet another for worldwide markets. In China, the Mi 11 Ultra will get started at CNY 5,999 for the base variant with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage, whilst the 12GB/256GB and 12GB/512GB models of the phone will sell for CNY 6,499 and CNY 6,999 respectively.
Alongside the Mi 11 Ultra, Xiaomi also launched the Mi 11 Pro, Mi 11 Lite 5G and Mi Band 6.