Xiaomi 13 Pro First Impressions: New Heavyweight Flagship

The Indian smartphone market has already witnessed the launch of many premium gadgets in 2023, such because the iQoo 11 5G (Overview), OnePlus 11 5G (Overview) and the Samsung Galaxy S23 sequence. Becoming a member of the league is Xiaomi’s most premium smartphone providing to this point, the Xiaomi 13 Professional. The brand new flagship options top-of-the-line {hardware} and was introduced right here at MWC 2023. The spotlight function is its new 1-inch digicam sensor, which was first seen within the Xiaomi 12S Extremely. There may be extra to the Xiaomi 13 Professional than simply the primary digicam sensor, and this is our first take a look at the telephone.

The Xiaomi 13 Professional is available in two premium colors — Ceramic Black and Ceramic White. Now we have the black color choice which has a shiny again panel. Whereas it’s a fingerprint magnet, I do like the general look of the telephone. Xiaomi has bundled a case contained in the field for folks like me, who prefer to maintain their telephone’s again wanting neat and clear.

Utilizing the case does add some weight to the already heavy system (229g), and you may miss the nice in-hand really feel of the ceramic again panel. In brief, I might suggest getting the white color as a substitute, which seems to be equally good and in addition helps conceal fingerprints higher.

The retail field additionally packs a charging adapter, USB Sort-A to Sort-C cable, display protector, SIM ejector device, and a few documentation booklets.

One other key spotlight of the Xiaomi 13 Professional is its large show. The telephone contains a 6.73-inch WQHD+ AMOLED show with a 120Hz refresh charge. It will get all of the premium show options too equivalent to help for Dolby Imaginative and prescient and HDR10+ playback, WideVine L1 certification, and so on. The curved-edge display provides 1,900 nits of peak brightness and comes with a layer of Corning Gorilla Glass Victus. For safety, there’s an in-display fingerprint scanner together with the handy AI face unlock.

The Xiaomi 13 Professional has a curved-edge AMOLED show

The metallic body of the Xiaomi 13 Professional is curved on the edges, whereas the highest and backside are flat. On the proper aspect, you get the facility and quantity keys, whereas the underside edge homes the USB Sort-C port, main speaker, SIM card tray and microphone. The highest edge homes the IR emitter and one other microphone.

On the again, there’s a square-shaped digicam module for the triple-camera setup. The Xiaomi 13 Professional homes a 50-megapixel 1-inch Sony IMX989 main digicam with help for optical picture stabilisation (OIS). There may be additionally a 50-megapixel ultra-wide digicam with a 115-degree discipline of view, and a 50-megapixel telephoto digicam with 3.2X optical zoom. Digitally, the digicam can zoom as much as 70X. There’s a hole-punch cutout on the high of the show for the 32-megapixel entrance digicam.

Xiaomi’s partnership with digicam producer Leica for its flagship smartphones will even making its debut in India with the Xiaomi 13 Professional. It goes with out saying, our evaluate will cowl the efficiency of all 4 digicam sensors, so keep tuned for our ultimate verdict.

The Xiaomi 13 Professional has the identical 1-inch digicam sensor discovered within the Xiaomi 12S Extremely

What we will even be testing is how the telephone performs throughout routine duties and whereas gaming. The Xiaomi 13 Professional has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, which is at present probably the most highly effective SoC for Android smartphones. The telephone additionally packs a 4,820mAh battery with help for 120W quick wired charging, 50W wi-fi charging, and 10W reverse wi-fi charging. Our unit had 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB of UFS 4.0 storage.

When it comes to software program, Xiaomi has launched the 13 Professional with the newest MIUI 14 which is predicated on Android 13. The brand new MIUI pores and skin is claimed to have acquired many enhancements beneath the hood, which ought to assist supply a smoother consumer expertise. Xiaomi has additionally promised to offer three years of software program updates and 5 years of safety help.

Keep tuned for the complete evaluate of the Xiaomi 13 Professional, which will probably be up very quickly on Devices 360. Tell us what you consider the brand new Xiaomi 13 Professional within the feedback under.