Xiaomi 11T Professional Overview: A Stable Performer on the Proper Value

Xiaomi’s Mi 10T Professional was introduced in India again in September 2020. It was a strong, premium smartphone full of 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 gadgets, this new smartphone drops the “Mi” model and is solely known as the Xiaomi 11T Professional.

Going solely by its specs, it is clear that the Xiaomi 11T Professional is a major improve over the Mi 10T Professional (Overview), however on the identical time, it is vitally just 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 value phase. However is it an all-rounder? Let’s discover out.

Xiaomi 11T Professional value in India

The Xiaomi 11T Professional is obtainable 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 at last, 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 known as Moonlight White, Meteorite Black, and Celestial Blue. The 12GB variant is just obtainable within the black and blue finishes. I obtained the top-end variant with 12GB of RAM in Celestial Blue.

Xiaomi 11T Professional design

Other than the dazzling, multi-colour rear panel that you simply get if you happen to select this end, the Xiaomi 11T Professional’s design does not likely stand out. It isn’t slim and lightweight just like the Vivo V23 Professional (Overview), and it incorporates a flat show. The 11T Professional’s body does not look as spectacular because the metallic body of the iQoo 7 Legend (Overview). It is also heavy at 204g and doesn’t havy an official IP ranking, not like its closest sibling, the Mi 11X Professional.

The Xiaomi 11T Professional’s port cutouts really feel a bit unfinished.

 

What I preferred about this cellphone’s design is that it is comfy to carry and simple to grip due to the matte-finished glass again and polycarbonate mid-frame. The Corning Gorilla Gorilla Victus scratch-resistant glass on the entrance and rear didn’t decide up fingerprints simply through the overview interval both. The 6.67-inch AMOLED panel incorporates 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 cellphone 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 value level. The 11T Professional has LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage, however with no slot for increasing it. The cellphone 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 techniques. There’s an infrared emitter for controlling home equipment. The cellphone is powered by a 5,000mAh battery which could be charged in a short time utilizing the bundled 120W charger.

The Xiaomi 11T Professional incorporates a glass again with a body made from polycarbonate

 

The cellphone comes with Xiaomi’s MIUI 12 software program which is predicated on Android 11. The interface is typical of what you’d count on from a Xiaomi cellphone, and there are many preinstalled third-party apps, although these could be uninstalled if wanted. There are additionally loads of Mi-branded apps – lots of them cannot be eliminated, however some such because the Mi Credit score app, could 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 program improve 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 price and a 480Hz contact sampling price which is a bit greater 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 screen. 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 assist, made for an immersive video viewing expertise.

The Xiaomi 11T Professional has a 6.67-inch full-HD+ AMOLED show with a 120Hz refresh price

 

As is the case with most smartphones at this value 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 Impression, and Name of Responsibility: Cell, and all of them labored flawlessly with out heating up the cellphone. Switching to ‘Very Excessive’ graphics and ‘Max’ body price in Name of Responsibility: Cell (with all the results turned on) did trigger the cellphone to heat up slightly, however efficiency didn’t take any noticeable hit.

One odd factor that I seen when taking part in video games was that the display screen’s refresh was at all times capped at 60Hz. This mainly implies that video games are usually not allowed to carry out past that restrict even when the {hardware} is able to higher.

The Recreation Turbo app is sort of helpful for tweaking your cellular gaming expertise

 

The Recreation 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 give attention to image high quality, efficiency, or greater body charges) and contact controls (swipe response, aiming accuracy, and so forth.), amongst many issues. I seen a lot better responsiveness with the swipe response and aiming accuracy settings set to the best worth in Name of Responsibility: Cell, 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 by way of 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 price set to 120Hz. Our commonplace HD video loop battery check additionally noticed a powerful consequence; the cellphone ran for 16 hours and 21 minutes, which is about the identical time that Vivo’s ultra-premium X70 Professional+ (Overview) managed.

The Xiaomi 11T Professional has a 108-megapixel major rear-facing digicam

 

Charging the cellphone was certainly fascinating due to 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 shouldn’t be a lot bigger than the extra frequent 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 major 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 just like what we have seen on different Xiaomi telephones, with a nicely laid-out interface and easy accessibility to essential modes and settings. The cellphone helps 8K video recording and might even report in HDR at as much as 4K. With the latter enabled, the body price is restricted to 30fps in any respect obtainable resolutions.

Xiaomi 11T Professional daylight digicam samples. Prime to backside: Macro digicam, major digicam, Extremely-wide-angle digicam (faucet to see full dimension)

 

Images taken in daylight confirmed good element and dynamic vary. Whether or not I used to be taking pictures objects or individuals, the extent of sharpness was excellent 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 individuals. I discovered myself switching to this mode solely after I wanted to blur issues within the background deliberately. Nonetheless, because of the limitations of the first digicam’s sensor dimension and lens, I used to be not capable of 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 will possibly give attention to topics between 3cm and 7cm away, and did an excellent job of capturing detailed macro pictures 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 fingers or should mount the cellphone 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 towards the sunshine, as shiny backgrounds such because the sky would typically be overexposed. Issues took a flip for the more serious 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 dimension)

 

In low mild, the principle rear digicam in Auto mode switches to an extended publicity of as much as two seconds by default. The shutter pace is decided by the quantity of accessible mild, and you may override this by dismissing the popup that seems, however outcomes have been higher when permitting it to occur. That is most likely optionally available as a result of the principle 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 may have to attend longer to seize and save every shot. In my expertise, the outcomes have been definitely worth the wait, because the digicam was capable of extract much more element from dimly lit scenes. Whereas low-light outcomes have been fairly good total, the dearth of OIS typically resulted in photographs that weren’t as sharp as they may have been.

The ultra-wide-angle digicam captured common pictures in daylight, with noticeable barrel distortion and purple fringing alongside the sides of objects. Low-light pictures got here out delicate and have 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 typically too shaky to be usable, particularly if recorded when strolling. The cellphone additionally gives 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 uninteresting and darkish however publicity was managed higher, notably in brighter areas (equivalent to billboards, streetlights and so forth.). 60fps footage in low mild appeared a bit too darkish and uninteresting. There was a slight shimmer in any respect resolutions when strolling round in low mild.

Whether or not it is taking pictures pictures or recording movies, turning on the digicam app’s AI mode typically led to exaggerated colors, which appeared unrealistic, so I most popular conserving it off.

Verdict

The Xiaomi 11T Professional is a strong premium smartphone, and can enchantment to anybody in search of digicam efficiency, show high quality, battery life, and uncooked energy below Rs. 40,000.

After utilizing the Xiaomi 11T Professional for greater than per week, it is clear that this cellphone comes near being an excellent all-rounder. Apart from its weak low-light selfie digicam efficiency and a great deal of preinstalled apps, all the things else checks out simply effective. 120W charging is at present the quickest we’ve seen on a smartphone, and the AMOLED show is prime notch by way of high quality. Dolby Imaginative and prescient assist is icing on the cake.

That mentioned, I’ve seen higher low-light digicam efficiency from the iQoo 7 Legend (Overview), which has OIS in its major digicam and autofocus in its ultra-wide-angle digicam. Its design can also be much more polished, with a metallic and glass physique, but it surely takes an enormous blow relating to battery life.

Sadly for the Xiaomi 11T Professional, Samsung’s Galaxy S20 FE 5G (Overview) with all its premium options is now obtainable at Rs. 39,999, after the entry of the Galaxy S21 FE (Overview). It additionally packs in options equivalent 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 Professional (Overview) which packs in related {hardware}, minus a number of issues equivalent to the larger battery and ultra-fast charging. It is at present on sale at Rs. 36,999 and looks like higher worth for these on a good funds, however who nonetheless need prime efficiency.

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