Xiaomi 11T Professional Evaluation: A Strong Performer on the Proper Worth

Xiaomi’s Mi 10T Professional was introduced in India again in September 2020. It was a stable, premium smartphone full of options and spectacular {hardware}. Properly over a yr later, Xiaomi has lastly provide you with a successor. Like most of Xiaomi’s latest premium and mid-range units, this new smartphone drops the “Mi” model and is solely referred to 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 (Evaluation), however on the similar time, it is rather 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 worth section. However is it an all-rounder? Let’s discover out.

Xiaomi 11T Professional worth in India

The Xiaomi 11T Professional is out there 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 referred to as Moonlight White, Meteorite Black, and Celestial Blue. The 12GB variant is just out there within the black and blue finishes. I acquired the top-end variant with 12GB of RAM in Celestial Blue.

Xiaomi 11T Professional design

Aside from the dazzling, multi-colour rear panel that you simply get in case you select this end, the Xiaomi 11T Professional’s design does probably not stand out. It is not slim and light-weight just like the Vivo V23 Professional (Evaluation), and it encompasses a flat show. The 11T Professional’s body does not look as spectacular because the metallic body of the iQoo 7 Legend (Evaluation). It is also heavy at 204g and doesn’t havy an official IP score, not like its closest sibling, the Mi 11X Professional.

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

 

What I appreciated about this telephone’s design is that it is snug to carry and straightforward to grip because of the matte-finished glass again and polycarbonate mid-frame. The Corning Gorilla Gorilla Victus scratch-resistant glass on the entrance and rear didn’t choose up fingerprints simply through the evaluation interval both. The 6.67-inch AMOLED panel encompasses a hole-punch cutout for the selfie digital camera 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 telephone is sort of chunky, it is not shocking that the digital camera 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 Kind-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 worth level. The 11T Professional has LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage, however with no slot for increasing it. The telephone helps a number of 5G bands with dual-5G standby. It additionally helps Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, NFC, and the standard satellite tv for pc navigation techniques. There’s an infrared emitter for controlling home equipment. The telephone is powered by a 5,000mAh battery which may be charged in a short time utilizing the bundled 120W charger.

The Xiaomi 11T Professional encompasses a glass again with a body manufactured from polycarbonate

 

The telephone comes with Xiaomi’s MIUI 12 software program which relies on Android 11. The interface is typical of what you’d count on from a Xiaomi telephone, and there are many preinstalled third-party apps, although these may 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, may be. Fortunately, I did not come throughout adverts anyplace 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 must 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 larger than what you get on the Mi 11X Professional (360Hz). By default, the show is about to the ‘Vivid Color’ profile, which ends up in 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 wonderful distinction. This, together with its stereo audio system and Dolby Atmos help, 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 worth level, efficiency was not an issue. The Xiaomi 11T Professional scored 811 and three,391 factors in Geekbench’s single-core and multi-core checks 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 Obligation: Cellular, and all of them labored flawlessly with out heating up the telephone. Switching to ‘Very Excessive’ graphics and ‘Max’ body price in Name of Obligation: Cellular (with all the consequences turned on) did trigger the telephone to heat up a little bit, however efficiency didn’t take any noticeable hit.

One odd factor that I observed when taking part in video games was that the display screen’s refresh was all the time capped at 60Hz. This mainly signifies that video games will not be 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 cell gaming expertise

 

The Recreation Turbo app helps 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 larger body charges) and contact controls (swipe response, aiming accuracy, and so on.), amongst many issues. I observed a lot better responsiveness with the swipe response and aiming accuracy settings set to the very best worth in Name of Obligation: Cellular, 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 images), I received about two days of use from a single cost, and this was with the show’s refresh price set to 120Hz. Our customary HD video loop battery check additionally noticed a robust end result; the telephone ran for 16 hours and 21 minutes, which is about the identical time that Vivo’s ultra-premium X70 Professional+ (Evaluation) managed.

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

 

Charging the telephone was certainly fascinating because of 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 isn’t 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 digital camera that captures 12-megapixel binned photos by default, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle digital camera, and a 5-megapixel macro digital camera. Selfie duties are dealt with by a 16-megapixel entrance digital camera. The digital camera app is just like what we have seen on different Xiaomi telephones, with a properly laid-out interface and easy accessibility to vital modes and settings. The telephone 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 out there resolutions.

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

 

Pictures 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 digital camera’s shallow depth of area additionally meant that I not often 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, as a result of limitations of the first digital camera’s sensor dimension and lens, I used to be not capable of get near an object with out switching to the macro digital camera.

The 5-megapixel macro digital camera on the Xiaomi 11T Professional has an extended focal size than the first digital camera, successfully providing a 2X zoom (50mm). It could give attention to topics between 3cm and 7cm away, and did a very good job of capturing detailed macro pictures in daylight. The sharpness of those photos was a bit on the upper facet however autofocus was fast sufficient, which even allowed me to shoot usable video clips with this digital camera. You have to regular fingers or must mount the telephone 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 in opposition to the sunshine, as brilliant backgrounds such because the sky would typically be overexposed. Issues took a flip for the more severe in low gentle – selfies appeared oversharpened, lacked depth, and had poor texture element even when I had switched to Evening mode.

Xiaomi 11T Professional low-light digital camera samples. Prime to backside: Selfie in Evening mode, Auto mode, Evening mode (faucet to see full dimension)

 

In low gentle, the primary rear digital camera in Auto mode switches to an extended publicity of as much as two seconds by default. The shutter pace is set by the quantity of accessible gentle, and you may override this by dismissing the popup that seems, however outcomes have been higher when permitting it to occur. That is in all probability optionally available as a result of the primary digital camera lacks optical picture stabilisation (OIS), which the Mi 10T Professional did have.

Switching to Evening mode, photos pack in much more element, however you will have to attend longer to seize and save every shot. In my expertise, the outcomes have been well worth the wait, because the digital camera was capable of extract much more element from dimly lit scenes. Whereas low-light outcomes have been fairly good general, the dearth of OIS typically resulted in photos that weren’t as sharp as they might have been.

The ultra-wide-angle digital camera captured common pictures in daylight, with noticeable barrel distortion and purple fringing alongside the sides of objects. Low-light pictures got here out smooth 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 telephone additionally presents 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 gentle, I received the perfect outcomes when taking pictures at 4K 30fps. Movies shot in HDR appeared a bit uninteresting and darkish however publicity was managed higher, significantly in brighter areas (akin to billboards, streetlights and so on.). 60fps footage in low gentle appeared a bit too darkish and uninteresting. There was a slight shimmer in any respect resolutions when strolling round in low gentle.

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

Verdict

The Xiaomi 11T Professional is a stable premium smartphone, and can enchantment to anybody on the lookout for digital camera efficiency, show high quality, battery life, and uncooked energy underneath Rs. 40,000.

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

That mentioned, I’ve seen higher low-light digital camera efficiency from the iQoo 7 Legend (Evaluation), which has OIS in its major digital camera and autofocus in its ultra-wide-angle digital camera. Its design can also be much more polished, with a metallic and glass physique, nevertheless it takes a giant blow on the subject of battery life.

Sadly for the Xiaomi 11T Professional, Samsung’s Galaxy S20 FE 5G (Evaluation) with all its premium options is now out there at Rs. 39,999, after the entry of the Galaxy S21 FE (Evaluation). It additionally packs in options akin to wi-fi charging and has an IP68 score, which only a few different smartphones on this section have.

There’s additionally the Xiaomi Mi 11X Professional (Evaluation) which packs in comparable {hardware}, minus a couple of issues akin to the larger battery and ultra-fast charging. It is at the moment on sale at Rs. 36,999 and looks like higher worth for these on a decent funds, however who nonetheless need high efficiency.

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