Xiaomi on Thursday – April 1 – announced that it will launch the Mi Mix Ultra in India on April 23. Before you ask, no, this is not some elaborate prank from the enterprise. Xiaomi is certainly bringing its most potent phone to date to the nation, the similar phone it claims can go neck and neck with specialist cameras like the Sony RX100.
The Mi 11 Ultra, launched barely two days ago in China, is an out-and-out flagship phone with hardware that is akin to a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and iPhone 12 Pro Max. Its headlining function is its exclusive rear camera assembly – which is so large, it has currently hit meme city – that homes one of the most potent set of shooters we’ve ever observed on a smartphone.
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Xiaomi is so confident about the cameras on the Mi 11 Ultra, CEO Lei Jun did not even examine it to any other smartphone but with the Sony RX100. You can say that it was a stretch, but that does not take away from the reality that the Mi 11 Ultra cameras are in a league of their personal, at least on paper.
Mi 11 Ultra camera hardware
So, let’s speak hardware. The Mi 11 Ultra has a 50MP main camera with a significant 1/1.12-inch Samsung GN2 sensor – this is a very first for any smartphone in the marketplace today. This sensor sits behind an optically stabilised f/1.95 aperture lens.
The Mi 11 Ultra has two other 48 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 for a total of 120x zoom.
The customary DxOMark critique puts Xiaomi’s new phone effectively above the Huawei Mate 40 Pro Plus generating it the most effective smartphone camera readily available today – if you are into that sort of factor. So, there is certainly a lot to look forward to.
But will it fly?
Having mentioned that, this is also a significant threat that Xiaomi is taking. The final time it did a thing so “shocking” was back in 2017 when it launched the rather unconventional Mi Mix 2 right here. That phone did not do so effectively, in spite of it becoming way ahead of its time when it came to design and style and function set. Come to consider of it, that has been the story of most “Mi” branded flagship phones in India.
But in early 2020, Xiaomi realigned its concentrate and tactic and introduced what I like to contact, Mi 2.. It went on to launch the Mi 10, Mi 10T and Mi 10T Pro phones in India the similar year and with the Mi 11 series, it is hunting to continue on that path.
Then once more, the Mi 11 Ultra is not your common flagship. Of course, the significant emphasis is on the cameras, but it is not a slouch in the other places as effectively.
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The phone has a 6.81-inch E4 AMOLED show with a 2K or QHD+ resolution, 120Hz refresh price and Dolby Vision help. It is powered by the Snapdragon 888 with up to 12GB LPDDR5 RAM and up to 256GB UFS3.1 storage. There is also a sizeable 5,000mAh battery with 67W quickly wired and wireless charging. Rounding off the package are Harmon Kardon dual stereo speakers and IP68 water and dust resistance – that bit is a very first for any Xiaomi phone.
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In China, the Mi 11 Ultra begins at CNY 5,999 (roughly Rs 66,500) for the base variant with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage. No matter how aggressively Xiaomi costs the phone in India, there is no doubt that the Mi 11 Ultra will finish up becoming its most costly solution in India to date. Xiaomi almost certainly believes that with OnePlus moving up the price tag ladder this year, there is now an even larger space for a viable “flagship killer” and that is the space it is hunting to capture immediately after currently possessing laid a strong foundation with the Mi 10 series. The chance is there (this is a thing that even Vivo is attempting to make most of with the X60 series). Hopefully, in this second coming, purchasers will be more welcoming.