Yeah, we are here.
We are back at Cymye's studio.
Cymye, can you say something?
Cymye - Yes, we've already made a lot of videos about the Mi 11 Ultra.
In fact, all the Mi 11 family! So you can check out the Mi 11 Lite, Mi 11 Pro, and Mi 11 Ultra from both our channels!
So please check out the links in the description (or from the screem)
Yes, in this video, we are gonna do unboxing,
camera performance (comparing with the Oppo Find X3 Pro),
also the overall user experience of the official Mi 11 Ultra.
Cymye bought it from an offline Mi Store.
Yeah, let's get it unboxed first!
As I’ve said before you can either choose the 67W fast charger or not when you are ordering the
Mi 11 Ultra. But who doesn’t want it since it’s … free. As for this “80W wireless + 120W wired charging” box,
it’s selling at a discount so we just took the chance and bought it. Now moving to
the unboxing of the Mi 11 Ultra. The first layer includes a pin for the SIM card, a Chinese manual,
and a soft transparent case. Then is the phone, nothing more. It’s really eco-friendly!
Moving to the phone, it weighs in at a whopping 237 grams! Who needs a dumbbell to keep fit?
On the left side, it adopts a classic Mi design that includes a power key and a volume rocker. On top,
it comes with a noise-canceling mic, an IR blaster, and a Harmon-Kardon-tuned stereo speaker.
Nothing on the right side. Whilst at the bottom, we get to see a SIM card slot, a type-c charging
port, a mic, and another speaker. And in case you are curious about the SIM card tray, it supports
a dual nano-SIM card and is not expandable. And now to the most controversial part – the back panel.
We ordered the ceramic white version as we think the white color is more matching with
the 80W transparent wireless charger. What a weird logic here, lol. But on the other side, the white
version is more resistant to fingerprints and smudges, not like the black one we tried before.
For the camera department, here we don’t go through the camera specs one by one as I’ve
already done that in my previous Mi 11 Ultra hands-on video, please check out if you haven’t,
it’s a good one. Let’s jump directly to the camera test. Here we also compare it with the Oppo Find
X3 Pro as these two phones are probably the most trending phones in China right
now and both claim that they have the best camera performance, so why not compare them head-to-head.
For night photos, both have a pretty decent performance. But clearly in most
scenarios the Mi 11 Ultra wins thanks to its giant 50MP Samsung GN2 sensor. It gains more light and
delivers better exposure and detailed photos. Also thanks to its powerful 48MP TeleMacro camera,
even at the same zoom level, photos from the Mi 11 Ultra are still usable while for the
Find X3 Pro it starts becoming softer and nosier. But sometimes, I found Oppo has a
better true-to-life color reproduction and doesn’t blow out on the highlight parts.
For the selfie camera, I found the Find X3 Pro generates a more pleasing picture
thanks to its beauty algorithm. But I’m not sure if it’s your type.
Now about daylight photos. As I disabled the HDR for both phones as I’m not comparing their
software stitching sophistication, just evaluating the sensor. The Find X3 Pro
seems to have better exposure and a higher dynamic range, looks sharper and pleasing. Check out more.
Also, during the test, I found the Find X3 Pro has a brighter
display and has a better viewing experience.
Now moving to the videos. First of all, thumbs up to both phones for the excellent stabilization
ability, as we don’t use a gimbal or something to stabilize the videos, we just handheld it.
Both phones deliver this kind of awesome stable footage. But if I run, the Mi 11 Ultra has better
stabilization. Also, from the video comparison, the Mi 11 Ultra tends to have a reddish tint while
the Find X3 Pro has a more neutral white balance. I’m not sure which one you like more, just let
me know in the comment section. For the selfie videos, the Mi 11 Ultra has a better true-to-life
color and has better stabilization. And if you are curious about the sound recording, here is it.
For Telephoto lens videos, I got to say the Mi 11 Ultra is better too, when you zoom in for a
closer shot, the Mi 11 Ultra is shaky but still usable, while the Oppo turns grainier and softer.
One thing I have to mention for the Mi 11 Ultra is its 8k video capturing capability.
For 8K original footage, I uploaded them to my Chinese channel, you can check it out.
Yeah if you haven’t subscribed yet please subscribe! I always post some behind the scenes
here. What really amazes me is it supports image stabilization for 8k footage and it looks awesome,
just like you are using a gimbal. All three lens support 8k footage independently, from my test the
8k footage from the TeleMacro Lens has the least desire result as it has heavy moving artifacts and
looks shaky especially when you are walking fast. But if you just put it here and move smoothly it
has a fine video performance. Speaking of moving artifacts, both phones tend to have that for night
videos. But overall, the Mi 11 Ultra generates much sharper, cleaner, and fewer noise videos.
But here is the most important part, does that mean the Mi 11 Ultra is worth buying and is for
everyone? To be honest I seriously doubt so and here is my honest opinion. I do admit the Mi 11
Ultra has the best camera performance among all the phones I’ve reviewed so far. It’s out of this world.
Whether for the video or photo performance.
But the only problem is, is it worth sacrificing the phone’s most important features
such as weight and design just for a better camera performance?
As for the design, yes, it’s iconic, Xiaomi is the first phone to adopt this design, the camera bump
covers almost the entire upper half of the device. It’s dramatic but iconic, when someone uses a
phone like this it’s from Xiaomi. But at the same time, the camera bump protrudes way out and the
weight is not evenly distributed. You can't even put it straight on a table. It impacts on your
gameplay too as it is cumbersome to grasp and sometimes you can't even fit it in your pocket!
I think the secondary screen is innovative and it will have a Super power saver mode in the future,
which enables you to have a week-long battery life even it has only 10% juice left. But currently,
it’s only for time displaying and music switching or limited other tricks you might think of.
And most of all, it’s too heavy, even for me I just hold for several minutes and my hands start
feeling sore. So when I get back to the 193gram Oppo Find X3 Pro I just feel so relaxed, it is
just like my birthday. Come on, weight definitely is one of the priorities when buying a phone,
after all, you will hold it all the time instead of taking photos all the time?
And speaking of camera performance, for most of us I think we just take pictures
to share with our friends on Facebook or other social media platforms,
and those photos will be compressed a lot, basically, there is not that much of a big
difference between a 50MP photo and a 15MP photo at the end of the day.
And for 8k video shooting or 120x zoom I think it’s just a gimmick, most of the time you will not
use, like my computer can’t even run 8k footage! And 120x zoom photo is too soft and noisy, it’s
just useless. I’d rather use the Find X3 Pro’s microlens to see things near and it’s more fun.
So, from my personal view, there is no point for most normal users to have such a
bulky phone. Unless you are a phone camera fanatic, and desperately in need of the best
camera phone, I guess it’s for you. And also in addition to its awesome camera performance,
it has a good hardware performance, and good sounding, etc.
But right now, I think I will just stay with the Oppo Find X3 Pro.