well we've got another release in the xiaomi 12 series we've got the 12 pro the 12 x and the 12
and the 12 lite just like the name suggests is a thinner smaller lightweight model it weighs just
173 grams and it's only 7.29 millimeters thick powered by the mid-range snapdragon
778 g with 5g support this model does have a 4 300 milliamp hour battery with 67 watt fast charging
with the cameras we've got a main 108 megapixel camera now this one we've seen a lot of it's the
samsung hm2 it's still a very good sensor we have an 8 megapixel ultra wide camera 2 megapixel for
macro and a 32 megapixel selfie camera the screen at 6.55 inches it's an amoled screen 120 hertz
with a 240 hertz sample rate to it touch sample rate and it is covered with gorilla glass 5. so is
it a worthy addition to the xiaomi 12 series let's find out so what does xiaomi include in the box
well we have our 65 watt charger they've used this charger with a lot of their phones it's still very
quick i'll give you the exact charging times later on in the video our type c to type a cable and
then we have a sim tray tool the usual paperwork that they include for their eu models so we've got
safety information leaflet quick start guide and a warranty card then a tpu case which is
quite a nice one and i do like the fact that it's a clear one not the smoky gray that they sometimes
use so you can see the nice color that we do have at least with a version of the 12 light i have
which is this really cool blue color now i really do like the look of this phone i love that the
colors shift out on the rear of it so you can see all different kind of highlights shifting out it's
almost not really like a blue but sometimes it's a silver sometimes it's almost a little bit purpley
then you do get of course the blue come through especially in direct sunlight as you can see now
that it's shifting out even more then it's it's a nice look it's something a little bit different
there so the camera module is following in the steps of the xiaomi 12 pro the 12 x and the 12.
same style here now i like the fact that they've gone with 108 megapixel sensor with this one
it's a good camera and it does take very detailed shots especially daylight ones pixel bends down to
16 megapixels f 1.88 aperture and we do have an eight megapixel ultrawide which is not really a
good camera very weak and then a 2 megapixel macro and dual tone led flash so this part around here
is plastic the backing material i haven't been able to confirm this but i do believe it is also
plastic with it and we do have a plastic frame but it doesn't feel like cheap plastic at all
the build of it is excellent there's no creaks or flecks in it feels really good in hand i do like
the size so 6.55 inches the fingerprint reader location a bit of a minor complaint from me
it's too low you see where it is but it does work quite well being an in-screen optical one it's not
ultrasonic so if it was located here that would be a little bit more convenient a little easier
to get to but yes you do get used to it now the screen bezels you can see they are slim i'll get
onto the screen in a little more detail but it's 120 hertz it's an amoled screen and it does have
a 240 hertz touch response rate which is good our selfie camera without a silver or gold ring
around it which is good that's 32 megapixels ir transmitter secondary mic for noise cancellation
in calls and then a little tiny port there for the secondary loudspeaker so yes it does have
dual outs because it's something that seems to be pretty much standard now with these phones
and our main loudspeaker here at the bottom so you get more mids more lows out of the speaker and
more highs and mids out of the other one we've got our mic there an awesome trade tool that does take
two nano sims no micro sd card support and no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack sadly with this model
and of course no video out out of this type c port it's only usb 2 data so transferring files is
rather slow great size great weight and the build quality even if it's all plastic it
does feel good so that touch rate as i mentioned it's 240 hertz so it's nothing special but i don't
have any problems with it at all the screen is a nice amoled panel that they have gone with now
it's full hd plus resolution 120 hertz if you go into the display settings you get all your
typical android 12 settings there now the refresh rate you can set either 60 or 120 sadly there is
no 90 hertz option that would have been really nice and i do hope with a firmware update that
xiaomi can later add that so it is a screen that is also reasonably bright we've got a sunlight
mode and then of course brightness control that's very standard that's been around for a long time
now and in direct sunlight you can make out the screen it tops out at just over 760 nits the
brightness according to my light meter and i find it to be adequate i really don't have any problems
triggering the gestures not an issue there with this screen and i just go into some of my images
here that you'll see that it is a nice looking panel and i really don't think anyone is going to
be complaining with this screen it all it doesn't have any of those ips traits that sometimes can
be the uneven lighting especially around the cutout for the camera so if i just zoom into
this you see the cutout doesn't have any of those kind of issues it's a great screen and best part
for me it's flat it's not a curved screen the ui is miui 13 and i know in the beginning it had a
very rough start i have been quite critical of it because well it wasn't really that stable there
were a lot of bugs a lot of animation issues i can thankfully say that things yes are starting to get
a little better now it feels very smooth here even though we've just got a snapdragon 778 g it's
still a good chip it is a 5g chip and we do have the latest well i'm on the latest here version
of software so they do have updates that they push through and at the time of me of course publishing
this review i'm on the latest one now i haven't noticed any serious bugs or anything i've had no
problems with say the proximity sensor calls seem to be fine i've placed calls of course on it uh
the only thing i've noticed that if you're not using the phone for a while say you're i don't
know you put it down for an hour you pick it up and you go to unlock it i have a couple of times
just seen that funny little spinning animation there then it loads in all your icons there for
the launcher that is really the only thing and it doesn't always happen you can see now everything
is behaving itself it's very fast smooth and fluid i hope they can can maintain this because a lot of
the times with xiaomi when they post updates or they move to a new media miui version we often
get these added bugs which really starts to drag things down but at this point of time it's good
and it's getting a thumbs up from me me ui and the wrong performance now one thing that hasn't
changed sadly is the deals that xiaomi makes with other companies so they have their applications
already pre-installed on your nice new shiny phone as soon as you power it up you're going to see a
lot of this a lot of bloatware now there are at least about 23 or so applications that i classify
as bloat and i remove those it's around two gigabytes worth but you just go into app settings
very easy to do so it's not a big issue but still i would like xiaomi to tone down on the bloatware
it just seems to be getting worse every single time so how long does it take to charge the 67
watt charger with the 4300 milliamp hour battery you can see up to 60 percent it took 26 minutes
and then 48 minutes it was at 88 and then finally fully charged at the 63 minute mark which isn't
bad um but it's not the fastest out there i was actually expecting it to be a little bit faster
but still around an hour or even when it's under an hour is an acceptable time for me and still
very quick to charge so battery life this is not a realistic test however it is a fixed
looping benchmark test you can compare it with all my other reviews of phones that i cover in
the channel so at 120 hertz 200 nits was the brightness that i always calibrate the phones to
it ran for almost 10 hours and that's not a bad score but real world use you're looking around
six and a half hours over you can stretch it out a little bit more of course if you use 60 hertz
so the berry life i would say is average okay it's nothing outstanding here even with the snapdragon
778g performance wise it's not a bad chip at all you can see here getting just over the 500 000
mark score here with antutu that's good and it only lost 1 battery okay temps went up 7 degrees
but the temperatures of this mid-range chip are very good nothing like a snapdragon 8gen1 or the
triple eight these storage is quite quick as you can see it's not the fastest out there but
not bad all right this version that i have has 128 gigabytes of storage geekbench 5 score
again shows you that the snapdragon 778g is a good performer not a bad chip at all
so we do have a wi-fi level one netflix will be in full hd which is good amazon prime video doesn't
look to be yet with this device and camera 2 api support so if you love your gcam ports
it's got the full support we need for it so you can test out other ports to get different styles
of photos of course the gps typical qualcomm here caps out at three meters of accuracy and
it works well gets a lock pretty much straight away which is what we want onto audio now so
yes if you want to use this the ancient old tech analog 3.5 millimeter you are going to need that
unfortunately they don't include it in the box but you can pick one up for really cheap so i
do find that the audio quality especially with the type c to 3.5 sounds great this is one thing that
xiaomi has done for years now i think really good job of their audio reproduction comes through nice
and clean it's very clear and decent volume to it so both of the loudspeakers they're not
bad sounding there's a little bit of bass to them i'd rate them as average nothing amazing but they
do the job they're loud enough allowed for calls and for people that like blasting out their music
watching movie clips or whatever it's going to be fine for that so here's a sample at 100 volume
and a very quick look at gaming performance so this is pub g you can run the extreme frame rate
setting but only on the smooth graphics setting unfortunately that's just how it is the way the
developers have it set for the snapdragon 778g so get out of that jump into a little bit of gameplay
and show you how it runs the game is running fine at 60 frames per second if you swipe here you
bring up game turbo and you can see that it's a constant 60 here so this chipset's not having any
trouble running this game and i don't see any lag some of my teammates are firing at someone just
there see what's going on but no no slow down even when you look through the sights through the scope
it's not a problem so good performance here it's just a shame that we don't have
a 90 frames per second option available for this chipset that would have been really good and even
better so all the titles out there all of the games that are on the play store even demanding
games like gen shin impact will run just fine now thermals very good with the snapdragon 778g
it gets warm but it doesn't seem to get really hot and overheat it's not a snapdragon 8gen one
moving over to the cameras now with the xiaomi 12 lite front-facing camera here 32 megapixels and
it does have electronic image stabilization with video and you can only shoot 1080p 30 and 60 with
it so it does not support 4k video unfortunately the electronic image stabilization is good however
seems reasonably steady here maybe not the steadiest i have seen but let's take a look
at the rear cameras now so the rear main camera is a hundred and eight megapixels it has electronic
image stabilization but not optical i have not really seen any problems at all with the focus
of it tends to lock on quite quick which is what i've come to expect with this 108 megapixel sensor
so stabilization pretty good i'm only just holding this one-handed walking ahead i'll just jog in
here slightly you can see now it's going to shake around a little but overall not bad now when you
pan around you see sometimes a bit of that all too typical jada that i constantly mentioned mentioned
in these videos but unfortunately it's there now pulling back
with digital zoom it won't swap over to the ultra wide because the ultra wide can
only do 1080p the ultra wide camera only lets us shoot 1080p 30 frames per second we don't
even get a 1080p 60 sadly so i really wish they'd go on with a better ultra wide sensor the video
quality is a little washed out and certainly not as good as the main 108 megapixel sensor
so great build quality even though it's all plastic it does feel really good in hand i
love the light weight of this so 173 grams is a lighter weight phone when most phones are well
over 200 210 a lot of flagships are even 220 and the more compact 6.55 inches and a very
thin phone at that it's really nice and i love the fact that they went with a flat amoled screen
without any curvature to it that's good so a big thumbs up there from me for that now rom
performance miui 13 i can thankfully say the time of this video is actually getting a lot better
now occasionally when yes i go to unlock it i have sometimes seen that little spinning icon
then the whole launcher loads up all the icons so it shouldn't happen it's an optimization thing but
that's the only real thing i'm not picking now aren't i when it comes to things with the phone
also a lot of bloatware when you get it out of the box you turn it on and this is just a lot of
garbage apps in there that you have to go through and uninstall which is a little bit annoying but
it is easy enough to go settings apps uninstall and just go along and select all two gigabytes and
25 apps or whatever get rid of them but i really wish xiaomi would not do that so it's a great
mid-range lightweight smaller phone if that's what you're after you're not too fussed about the ultra
wide this one gets a big thumbs up from me there's another phone that i really like which is still my
favorite from xiaomi 2. which is the xiaomi 12x make sure you check out my review of that one
if you want a more premium build better cameras and the slightly better well quite a bit better
snapdragon 870 still a very good chip if you game a lot it's probably maybe the phone to go for and
if you use ultra wide cameras a lot it's ultrawide is slightly better so do check out my review that
and i hope to see you in the next one i hope you did like this video here from me bye for now