this phone was actually announced and released back in November last year they read me 12 Pro
Series and I've got with me the readme 12 Pro Plus which is the high-end model here that I'm
going to be covering in this video so it's got the 200 megapixel main camera with Optical image
stabilization it's got a 120 watt super fast charging a 6.67 inch 120 hertz AMOLED screen
it's all powered by the mediatek 1080 8 gigabytes Ram 256 gigabyte of ufs 2.2 storage great to see
that xiaomi has not followed that trend of not including a charger or a cable so we have here
our type c to type a cable the charger so it's a very powerful 120 watts fully charges the phone
and approximately 20 minutes in my testing and then we get this so inside you'll find
here our SIM tray tool there is a little bit of paperwork so a quick start guide warranty card
safety information and then a TPU case now I like the look of this Blue version right here
we've got glass on the back of it they don't state if it's Gorilla Glass 5 but the front is covered
with gorilla glass 5. so on the right here are always on capacitor fingerprint reader volume
up and down button so this is all plastic the frames all plastic the volume up and down button
is plastic and the feel of it in hand doesn't feel too bad but a little bit cheaper than some of the
previous models from them down the bottom here you'll find our type c Port so it's USB 2 speeds
we've got a SIM tray here that takes two Nano Sims microphone loudspeaker another loudspeaker
at the top microphone there IR transmitter and yes 3.5 millimeter out and it sounds pretty good
so we are looking at approximately the thickness of this phone about nine millimeters it's just
under nine millimeters measuring here and it does weigh a slightly Hefty 210 grams so Gorilla Glass
on the front there glass on the back old plastic I do like the look of this blue though I think
it looks quite nice and then of course our cameras on the rear so unfortunately they're still keeping
like other brands with the setup of having an 8 megapixel Ultra wide and then a 2 megapixel
macro oh it's kind of a camera that you'd use once and that is it and then we have our 200 megapixel
shooter there at the top which is a Samsung sensor and that is probably the star of the
show it does have Optical image stabilization too bezels around the outside they don't look bad in
a 16 megapixel camera is in that cut out so it's a flat screen so I'm all for this I love flat AMOLED
screens maximum brightness it does Peak at 900 and the high brightness mode Nets and you can see it
out in direct sunlight so right now it's going to overpower my current camera settings it is bright
screen vibrant good colors touch seems to be very good the touch response now you see that there
is a rubber gasket around our SIM tray there and the reason why behind it is it does have an ip53
Splash proof rating to it so that's good they've tested it and of course no micro SD which is a
bit of a shame so each Sim nanosim goes on either side of that now 5G I can pick up 5G here where I
am based in Spain you see we've got 5G straight away and I do have pretty good signal strength I
have noticed that the 4G LT band 20 also working well here in Spain not a problem with that the
UI 14 performance is in general pretty good you can see I've got the apps drawer here and
I haven't really noticed too many animation stutters but occasionally I've noticed that
that mediatek demensity the 1080 sometimes show a little bit of lag now it's got eight gigabytes of
RAM we've got plenty of storage on board here too with it 256 gigabytes of ufs 2.2 storage
now even though this model is selling for just under 500 euros here in Europe we still get a
lot of this bloatware pre-installed crammed on and there's quite a bit a lot of games other
junk that you probably go through and uninstall now it's not hard to do the uninstall of it you
can go in through system settings apps and then find the uninstaller which is what I'm doing
here what I did before I uninstalled over three gigabytes worth and some 20 something plus what
I would classify as bloatware apps so that is quite a bit now we've got a wide Vine level one
third here which is good so we've got Netflix and Full HD Amazon Prime video two should be in
full HD it does pass the safety net test which is good and here you'll see the camera 2 API support
we've got that for the main camera on the rear so you could play around with gcam ports open camera
and others too if you wanted to get a different style of photo now the ufs 2.2 storage as I just
mentioned before 256 gigabytes worth of it good speeds random reads and rights are nice so that
is not going to bottleneck or slow down the system it's more the chipset that's going to be doing
that so definite mid-range power here getting just over 440 000 points worth and two two not bad at
all now I would have actually liked to have seen even though people would say yeah it's getting old
now the Snapdragon 870 I think it would have been fine um in a device like this being mid-range now
it doesn't throttle at all well okay point nine percent that's it point nine percent throttling
in the 20-minute stress test so the thermals on it are very good now gaming will say Genji
an impact for an hour I've noticed that it gets a little warm just around here but nothing alarming
so I can comment on those thermals that they're excellent it has liquid cooling in this too as
well according to xiaomi that have mentioned that so charge times incredibly quick I went
from 17 here to 122 minutes now if I did charge it five percent battery it would still be around
21 22 minutes is what I can get so really quick with that hypercharge 120 watts Now battery life
you are looking at you can see here I got eight and a half hours on screen time because of the
5000 milliamp hour battery it does go for quite a decent amount so this was just light kind of
mixed use here if you're someone that's very demanding gaming a lot then of course this hour
this time sorry will be quite a few hours less I think most people should be able to get eight
to nine and definitely a full day's use out of the note 12 Pro Plus now I have with my settings
forced everything to be in a 120 hertz globally here with the display so you've got the refresh
rate override so 60 or 120 sadly there is no 90 you've got all your white balance options in here
dark mode all of that which is great now dark mode is great for saving the battery battery too since
it's an AMOLED display and I'll show you that 120 hertz most of the UI will be running at this but
going into YouTube it doesn't seem to be when I scroll here this does not seem to be 120 hertz and
I think that's just the app so it's a variable refresh rate even though I have actually just
forced it to 120 hertz it won't override and work with every single app out there now audio quality
3.5 millimeter at the top of it of course is right here absolutely fantastic to have this and this is
one thing I comment on in all of my videos that xiaomi does a really good job of their 3.5 Milli
millimeter audio out I find it to be loud clear good stereo separation and really I don't have
any complaint lights with it it's nice to get at this price point I will say being a little bit
picky I think the Qualcomm audio out via analog sounds a little bit better for some reason here
than mediatek so it's one thing I've picked up on now loudspeaker one at the bottom one at the
top I'm going to jump into one of my videos right here and give you a sample of them at 100 volume
[Music]
foreign
speakers there's a little hint of bass in there the mids are okay A bit of treble I just wish it
was a bit louder I have heard louder from them and for some reason it seems to be just toned down a
bit perhaps to stop those speakers from distorting from clipping now gaming on the Note 12 Pro Plus
here is good but I will comment on one thing that if you get into some areas with some big baddies
with Genji and back for example it will lag and I noticed that now and then it will start to lag
a little bit now the settings I'm using here are the high settings 60 frames per second probably
a little too demanding for the dimensity 1080 you should lower it down a little but it's just
to test what it's going to be like so don't expect your performance gaming performance to
be Flawless it will be those little dips and lags but overall it's reasonably good please in and as
I look around here you can see that sometimes it drops a few frames a little bit of lag here and
there now I know a lot of people have commented and said that hey again Shan impact you're only
at level 20 you're only um Aventura level 10 well I just simply don't have enough time to play this
fantastic game more oh there was a lot more lag here around where the trees are you can see
and avatarial cameras now with the redmi note 12 Pro Plus so the front-facing camera 16 megapixels
you can shoot 1080p 30 frames per second and yes there is a 1080p 60 frames per second it
does have electronic image stabilization but I've noticed that it doesn't seem to be quite as good
as the Qualcomm powered redmi phones they tend to do the Eis the electronic image stabilization
just a little better you can notice there are some shakes to it I have not also noticed too
a little bit of overexposing you can probably see on my face here how it's coming out just a little
too wide at times and so some optimization is needed here now the audio bitrate is thankfully
256 kilobits per second not 96 kilobits per second so yay there for the bitrate
so this is what the phone is all about the 200 megapixel camera wow and the 120 watt fast
charging so I'm recording in 4k 30 frames per second and what I've noticed is you're probably
seeing it now is that there is no electronic image stabilization only the optical image stabilization
here that comes with the sensor so that's all we get so this way you can sit Rocking Around
shaking a little bit as I just walk along so if I was to jog which I am now and see it gets
a little shaky here so I hope they can implement this I believe the chipset does support it does
support electronic image stabilization with 4K 30 frames per second there is however no 4K 60. now
I'm just going to apply a little bit of digital Zoom here so I'm going to bring that up now to
two times you can see that it's still pretty good with this 200 megapixel sensor now I can't
swap over to the ultrawide on the go unfortunately because the ultrawide camera only supports 1080p
this is now Ultra wide video that does have electronic image stabilization so
all 1080p footage and with the main camera electronic image stabilization at 1080p
but not 4K so there's 1080p footage is a little bit of a letdown it looks a
little washed out lacking details and it's that eight megapixel sensor that was seen
so many times it's as common as you remember the Snapdragon 620 days with xiaomi well I do but it's
just that same sensor the two megapixel macro the 8 megapixel ultrawide over and over again and I
think at this price point it really should have a much better Ultra wide it could have just given it
an ultra wide with autofocus bigger better lens better sensor than this 8 megapixel poor camera
this is the main camera rear camera 200 megapixels portrait shot looks okay not bad a lot of detail
on there front facing camera a little too white sometimes they're Overexposed but it didn't here
now bright colors this main camera has a lot of problems and the other cameras too as well
often clipping the colors a little Overexposed so this is supposed to be bright yellow but it
looks more whitish it just couldn't handle those bright colors the main camera however in ideal
conditions can take some really decent looking shots as you can see now from these examples
and this one of my cat Veer of course I've got to put one of hero in almost all of my photo samples
and this is the ultrawide now which is not so great a lot of noise and grain to it in these
kind of conditions it's not a very good sense of that 8 megapixel sensor low light here with the
main camera sunset and then these samples this is night mode off and later now with the night
mode on you can see it does brighten things up but there is a lot of noise so clearly a lot of
optimization needed with the cameras now the price of the redmi note 12 Pro Plus here is about 480
Euros that's quite an ass considering the chipset that it does have the current state of the cameras
the optimization clearly a lot is needed there we don't have electronic image stabilization
with the 4K footage at least the audio bitrate is 256 kilobits per second a weak Ultra wide camera
macro camera that you probably only use once and never use again the selfie camera is a little
weak there too as well now the battery life is around about nine hours eight or nine hours on
screen time it's very good and it charges super fast it has a really nice flat AMOLED screen and
the build for a plastic frame phone isn't bad glass on the back gorilla glass 5 on the front
of it it's got a lot of good things going for it like the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack too
and a splash rating to it to ip53 the trouble is at that price point we've got other phones that
you should consider like the Samsung a54 now the a54 I believe also doesn't have electronic image
stabilization with this 4k camera but you gain a better Ultra wide camera better selfie camera and
it's debatable but I do believe a better UI to experience one UI I think is just a bit better
than MIUI 14 quite a bit better actually and in this photo times does have a few little lags
that creep in that you do see now performance wise gaming as I showed you can play the latest
titles occasionally a few little lags there now they do have that cheaper version which is the
redmi note 12 Pro now that's priced about uh 90 or 80 or so Euros cheaper and it's probably the
model to go for you get a 50 megapixel camera with also Optical image stabilization and the
other downgrade is it's 66 watt charging instead of 120 watt charging but honestly it's not much of
a difference you're talking about an additional 20-25 minutes of charge time versus this you're
saving that extra money and the redmi note 12 Pro is slightly thinner and slightly lighter
too which is another bonus you get so to answer my question should you buy the redmi note 12 Pro
Plus here well I would say if the price comes down and something that I think is more acceptable for
this type of mid-range phone yes however consider the other phones out there at this price point
around close to 500 euros what you can get take a good look around and look at all your options
out there so thank you so much for watching my review here of the redmi note 12 Pro Plus