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The Xiaomi 13 Professional has been formally launched in India. The successor to the Xiaomi 12 Professional (Evaluation) has many firsts up its sleeve corresponding to having the most recent Android 13-based MIUI 14 software program, and it is the one telephone in India with a 1-inch digital camera sensor. Furthermore, Xiaomi has labored with Leica to tune the digital camera system of its premium flagship. The Xiaomi 13 Professional additionally packs some highly effective {hardware}, together with the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon eight Gen 2 SoC.
Whereas the telephone definitely has what it takes (on paper) to be referred to as an ‘final’ flagship, it may not essentially be the outright alternative for everybody. That is as a result of the Indian smartphone market is crammed with a plethora of flagship choices proper now. The Xiaomi 13 Professional battles towards established gamers such because the iPhone 14 (Evaluation), Samsung Galaxy S23 sequence, the less-expensive OnePlus 11 (Evaluation) and iQoo 11 (Evaluation).
With so many choices to select from, do you have to think about shopping for the Xiaomi 13 Professional? Right here is our full evaluation that can assist you determine.
Xiaomi 13 Professional worth in India
The Xiaomi 13 Professional has been launched in India in a single storage configuration. The telephone packs 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB of UFS 4.zero storage, which is priced at Rs. 79,999.
Xiaomi 13 Professional design and show
The Xiaomi 13 Professional differentiates itself from different flagships with a ceramic again panel. The telephone has been launched in India in two color choices. Xiaomi despatched us the Ceramic Black variant which has a shiny end. Whereas the telephone does look fairly wealthy and premium, it does have a tendency to draw fingerprints and smudges.
I initially didn’t like the color and was leaning extra in direction of the Ceramic White choice, which does a much better job at hiding smudges. Nonetheless, after spending about two weeks with the telephone, the black variant has grown on me.
The Xiaomi 13 Professional is obtainable in two colors, Ceramic Black and Ceramic White
Xiaomi has bundled a case contained in the retail field. The steel body of the 13 Professional is curved on the edges, similar to the rear panel. Nonetheless, the highest and backside edges are flat, which helps the telephone stand by itself, actually. The 13 Professional is on the heavier facet at 229g.
On the entrance, there’s a 6.73-inch WQHD+ (2K) AMOLED show with a 120Hz refresh charge. The telephone helps Dolby Imaginative and prescient and HDR10+ certifications, and media playback generally seems good with deep blacks, vivid colors and crisp particulars. The curved-edge display and wonderful audio system additionally add to the immersive viewing expertise.
Whereas I do like the best way curved-edge shows look, the curvature on the Xiaomi 13 Professional is a bit an excessive amount of which will be liable to unintended touches. I skilled this whereas making an attempt to take images and at occasions, it would not register my faucets on the shutter button since part of my palm or finger was touching the sting of the show. A method round that is to make use of the TPU case, which prevents this type of unintended contact.
Xiaomi 13 Professional’s 2K AMOLED show provides an important multimedia expertise
The show can also be a lot vibrant at as much as 1,900 nits of peak brightness, making the Xiaomi 13 Professional’s show the brightest on any present Android smartphone. Beforehand, the show brightness crown on Android went to the Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely (Evaluation), which has a peak brightness of 1,750 nits, nevertheless the iPhone 14 Professional (Evaluation) and iPhone 14 Professional Max presently have the brightest shows on any smartphone (as much as 2,000 nits).
To be clear, the Xiaomi 13 Professional’s show doesn’t hit its peak brightness on a regular basis. It’s only if you find yourself watching HDR content material or utilizing it direct daylight, the show reaches this degree. When indoors, I most well-liked utilizing the telephone at about 40 p.c brightness degree.
The Xiaomi 13 Professional’s show additionally survived a number of unintended drops, because of the slippery nature of the ceramic again panel. Fortunately, the Corning Gorilla Glass Victus overlaying did its job. Complementing the show expertise is the twin speaker setup, which provides clear and wealthy sound even at a excessive quantity ranges.
One factor the Xiaomi 13 Professional doesn’t get is an official IP ranking. The corporate claims that the Indian mannequin has the identical degree of safety towards mud and water as the worldwide unit, which does come with an IP68 ranking.
Xiaomi 13 Professional specs and software program
The Xiaomi 13 Professional makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon eight Gen 2 SoC. The 4nm SoC options an Adreno 740 GPU. The telephone additionally packs a 4,820mAh battery with assist for 120W wired quick charging and the charger is available in the field. The 13 Professional additionally helps 50W wi-fi charging and 10W reverse wi-fi charging.
By way of software program, the Xiaomi 13 Professional runs Android 13-based MIUI 14 out of the field, which Xiaomi claims is extra optimised than ever. In my expertise, the software program expertise was fluid on the Xiaomi 13 Professional. There are additionally a bunch of extra options corresponding to optical character recognition, the flexibility to take away undesirable objects from photographs within the Gallery app, new wallpapers and widgets, and so forth.
Xiaomi 13 Professional will get the most recent Android 13-based MIUI 14 software program
A bunch of common apps corresponding to Fb, Amazon Prime Video, LinkedIn and Spotify come preinstalled. You additionally get many Xiaomi apps upon organising the telephone. Luckily, you possibly can uninstall virtually all the additional apps, apart from the system apps. Aside from the Themes Retailer throwing a few notifications day by day, there wasn’t a lot spam from any of the opposite system apps.
Relating to updates, the Xiaomi 13 Professional is slated to get three main Android updates and 5 years of safety patches. It isn’t the trade finest because the likes of Samsung, OnePlus, Oppo, and so forth., have promised to supply 4 main Android updates. Additionally, Xiaomi does not have the most effective monitor report with regards to delivering well timed updates as lots of its latest telephones are but to get the most recent Android replace. This makes we marvel if the Xiaomi 13 Professional will undergo the identical manner sooner or later when it is due for the following model of Android.
Xiaomi 13 Professional efficiency and battery life
The Xiaomi 13 Professional can deal with any job you throw at it because of the highly effective SoC. There was no lag or stutter throughout the person interface in my expertise. Gaming efficiency was additionally fairly good. I performed Name of Obligation: Cell with ‘Extremely’ framerate and ‘Medium’ graphics settings. After about 45 minutes of gameplay, the gadget did get a bit heat that however nothing alarming.
In Geekbench 6, the Xiaomi 13 Professional scored 1,386 and 4,529 factors within the single-core and multi-core assessments, respectively. The gadget additionally scored impressively in AnTuTu and managed to get 1,246,431 factors. The 13 Professional defeated the OnePlus 11 5G in the identical assessments.
Xiaomi 13 Professional’s AnTuTu rating is among the many highest in our assessments
By way of battery life, the Xiaomi 13 Professional can final a full day with medium utilization. On days after I solely used the telephone to scroll via social media, watch YouTube movies and test messages, I managed to get a screen-on time of about 6 hours, 30 minutes. Nonetheless, with loads of digital camera use, gaming, and so forth., the 13 Professional gave me round 5 hours of screen-on time. The telephone lasted for 16 hours, 36 minutes in our HD video loop take a look at.
The 120W quick charger, with Increase Mode enabled, can cost the telephone from empty to full in 25-30 minutes. Xiaomi claims that the battery will be absolutely charged in simply 19 minutes, however this requires a number of stipulations corresponding to switching to Airplane mode, guaranteeing no apps are working within the background, and so forth.
Xiaomi 13 Professional cameras
The spotlight characteristic of the Xiaomi 13 Professional is its digital camera system. The telephone continues to characteristic three 50-megapixel sensors on the again for broad, ultra-wide and telephoto pictures. There’s a 32-megapixel entrance digital camera for selfies.
Xiaomi 13 Professional is the primary smartphone from the corporate to characteristic a Leica-tuned digital camera setup
The digital camera efficiency is actual life is as spectacular because the spec sheet. The principle digital camera includes a Sony IMX989 1-inch sensor. It captures good particulars in each day and evening. The first digital camera’s dynamic vary efficiency can also be fairly spectacular. I additionally preferred the truth that the telephone doesn’t have any shutter lag, and since the sensor is giant in measurement, it captures extra mild in the identical quantity of time it takes when taking pictures in daytime. All of this mixed ends in well-exposed, detailed pictures in low mild.
Xiaomi 13 Professional main digital camera samples (faucet to see full measurement)
The ultra-wide digital camera, which has a 115-degree subject of view, has wonderful dynamic vary and captures good particulars. Furthermore, the color temperature is on par with the principle digital camera. The sides are barely distorted, however this can be a side-effect with virtually all ultra-wide cameras.
Xiaomi 13 Professional ultra-wide digital camera samples (faucet to see full measurement)
Making the digital camera setup versatile is the three.2X telephoto digital camera sensor, which has a 75mm focal size. Zoom pictures look crisp and supply vivid colors. The telephoto digital camera has a six piece lens setup, which is paired in two teams of three. The rear group of lenses closest to the sensor can transfer ahead or backward relying on how shut the topic is to the telephone, and this occurs in real-time. When the focusing distance is decreased to 10cm, you possibly can seize macro pictures utilizing the telephoto lens. There’s additionally a Tremendous Macro mode which makes use of the telephoto digital camera, and you too can seize macro pictures with the ultra-wide digital camera.
Xiaomi 13 Professional telephoto digital camera pattern (3.2X): Faucet to see full measurement
Xiaomi has additionally added particular digital camera options, courtesy of its collaboration with Leica. For starters, you get two pictures types referred to as Leica Genuine and Leica Vibrant. The previous has a extra impartial and nearer to actual life look, whereas the latter is extra appropriate for social media-ready posts. I additionally observed that images shot in Leica Vibrant mode supplied higher dynamic vary.
Along with this, there are 4 totally different portrait modes within the Xiaomi 13 Professional. Customers can seize portraits in 35mm, 50mm, 75mm and 90mm focal lengths. The 35mm focal size captures black and white photographs, whereas the 50mm and 75mm shoot in color and add a vignette across the edges. The 90mm portrait mode known as Smooth Focus and provides a really dreamy impact. I discovered myself utilizing the 90mm mode the least, as the 35mm and 75mm portrait modes have been my favorite.
Xiaomi 13 Professional Portrait mode samples (faucet to see full measurement)
Whereas edge detection is ideal normally, the digital camera algorithm tends to blur out the improper components of the topic at occasions. Alternatively, there was an occasion the place the algorithm, within the 75mm portrait mode, detected human faces within the background and didn’t blur them out. These bloopers weren’t frequent however I hope Xiaomi takes observe and fixes them quickly.
Occasions with Portrait mode blurs out the improper objects (left) and when it fails to blur out the background correctly (proper)
The entrance digital camera is the most effective that I’ve used on a Xiaomi telephone. It will get the small print and pores and skin tone proper normally. Edge detection utilizing the entrance digital camera too is on level in Portrait mode. There are various filters — some Leica others Xiaomi — for customers who play and experiment round with tones.
Xiaomi 13 Professional selfie digital camera samples
Including a little bit of the Leica contact is the shutter sound reminiscent to Leica cameras from the previous. There are additionally varied frames which present the EXIF knowledge of the photograph with a Leica watermark. By way of video, the Xiaomi 13 Professional is sort of good. All three cameras can shoot as much as 4K 60fps movies. The first digital camera will get extra assist for 8K 24fps. I most well-liked capturing movies in 4K 30/60fps for a steadiness between dynamic vary efficiency, colors, particulars and stabilisation.
Verdict
The Xiaomi 13 Professional is sort of a Leica-ble telephone (pun supposed). Whereas it options top-of-the-line {hardware}, it’s the little particulars that assist improve the general person expertise. Be it the shutter sound, variety of helpful digital camera filters, or the bunch of software program options within the Gallery app. The digital camera system can also be fairly versatile and provides quite a lot of focal lengths to seize moments with distinctive views for the shutter bug in you.
Xiaomi’s flagship telephone can also be properly tuned. With refinements to MIUI, coupled with a strong efficiency unit, the Xiaomi 13 Professional provides an important mixture of {hardware} and software program. It additionally supplies good battery life and the 120W quick charging provides to the expertise. Whereas there isn’t a official IP68 ranking in India, the telephone is claimed to supply the identical degree of water and mud safety as its international counterpart.
I nonetheless want that the software program assist, when it comes to Android updates, was a yr extra similar to Samsung’s and OnePlus’ flagships. The OnePlus 11 5G is extra reasonably priced in comparison with the Xiaomi 13 Professional and has its personal Hasselblad contact for the cameras, whereas matching the Xiaomi 13 Professional’s efficiency unit. Nonetheless, with the variety of helpful digital camera options, I discover the Xiaomi 13 Professional’s setup a bit extra enjoyable to make use of. You additionally get wi-fi charging, reverse wi-fi charging and a ceramic again panel. The closest rival to the Xiaomi 13 Professional can be the upcoming Vivo X90 Professional. It packs the identical 1-inch Sony IMX989 sensor and comes with Zeiss’ tuning for the cameras.
For now, in case you are somebody who desires a dependable digital camera system in a flagship smartphone, the Xiaomi 13 Professional can definitely be thought-about.
