we have now the global launch of xiaomi's 13 Pro with its one inch sensor and then this the xiaomi
13. now the 13 is a more compact Flagship for well nowadays that is standards so this model
A lot of people will probably go for it because it has a flat screen squared off nice frame to it and
it's just a more comfortable phone to use being a little smaller and it's refreshing having used
so many larger size flagships all the time that I typically cover and this model doesn't really
skimp on a lot of the features that we do get with the more expensive 13 pro model aside from the
faster charging and the one inch sensor that it does have that's really about it so it still has
the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 it's got ufs 4.0 storage it's got a 50 megapixel main camera and it even
has the 3.2 times optical zoom camera but with a 10 megapixel sensor this model so you still manage
to cram that in their 12 megapixel Ultra wide and it does have a 100 120 hertz screen which
the screen size is just 6.36 inches and it's a OLED screen which can Peak at an impressive
very bright 1900 Nets so in this review I'll let you know all about it and why I actually
enjoy this model more than the larger 13 Pro so this is what you get with our xiaomi we've got a
type A type c cable a typical cable from them 67 watt charger exact charging times will be in this
video later on and we get some paperwork a clear TPU case and then the Symmetry tool of course
the color that xiaomi send out to me so yes it is a review unit is the Flora Green I also have the
Flora Green with the 13 pro model which of course is quite a bit larger now I like this smaller size
which of course used to be a kind of standard size and now it's funny me talking about this
being a little bit smaller so the weight of it is 189 grams the thickness is just under eight
millimeters measuring here and we've got a middle frame around the outside so on the right hand side
our power button volume up and down made a middle feel really good those buttons and in a very good
location too so end screen fingerprint reader it works really well so just tapping that you see
that unlocks and I haven't really had any issues with it it's a great setup for the fingerprint
reader and we've got slightly curved edges here but it's mostly flat and of course that screen
on the front is flat and I really do like that so antenna line here on the left hand side down below
we've got our type c Port still sadly no video out still USB two speeds which are super slow and yes
I'm a broken record I hope they're gonna get up the tight with the times xiaomi and eventually one
day hey maybe in 2025 update this to USB 3.1 spec would be great so down with flying down speaker
there's also another one in the earpiece earpiece there microphone antenna lines our Sim trade tool
takes dual Nano Sims it's really the same setup as its larger 13 Pro brother you could say with
everything to frame the design but I like the fact that it's the squid off edges and the squared look
to it yes it's got a bit of an iPhone 13 14 look to it hasn't it been all squared off
here but that's just the way it is up the top we have a little Port here for the loudspeaker
and then we have these dual microphones at the top an IR transmitter and more antenna lines
they're now cameras they have continued with Leica with their partnership with the lenses and with
the image optimization you've got two modes you've got Leica vibrant Leica authentic with the color
science with it so we don't have the one inch sensor that is of course in the more expansive 13
pro model and it's large it's thick it just would not fit in a smaller sized phone that we do have
with this model here so the cameras we've got a 12 megapixel ultrawide 50 megapixel main camera
IMX 800 with that with Optical image stabilization and then a 10 megapixel 3.2 times zoom camera so
that's really good to have in a smaller size now phone then the screen so flat screen I am all for
this I think it's really nice it's a really good screen effect I enjoy this screen more than I do
the curved screen with the 13 Pro just because it's flat and it's super bright it gets up to
1900 nits Peak brightness but normally it's around about 1200 and you can see right now that's a very
vibrant screen and I love the fact of course and I just mentioned it but it's just flat there's no
curves oh it's good because you just looking at any angle it's not going to shift out to those
colors with it and we're on the screen too in a little bit but look at the bezels they are not
bad at all and our front facing camera this is 32 megapixels and yes you know I'm gonna say this it
only supports 1080P and I'll just jump into the Now video settings and I'll show you here that
it's just 30 frames per second so not even 60 frames per second without front facing camera
oh dear for a flagship it really should offer 4K and 1080p 60. in display we've got a lot of option
in here so they're all typical standard kind of ones scaling and all that that I won't really go
into color scheme this is good I've kept it on Vivid just more for the purposes of this video
but also because it is the standard seating and the one they recommend I would probably go with
original color there now those gestures you can see are working really good and we've got
refresh rate options of just 120 hertz or 60. now I would love to have seen 90 Hertz I don't know
why manufacturers are not including this anymore some brands do and it's very good because that's
that sweet spot with the course battery life and fluidity so 120 hertz very fluid really
good and look yes it is here this which is our anti-flicker mode now when you do turn it on
you probably won't see a difference on camera here but for those that are sensitive to flickering uh
you'll definitely notice this particular feature here and great to have it uh because I don't
believe it is here with the 13 Pro or the firmware currently doesn't show at all with that particular
screen now I've been keeping it on regular and I haven't actually noticed any flickering so
even when it's in the regular mode I believe the pulse width modulation is sufficient enough that
it's not flickering at least not to my eyes one thing you will notice though is there is quite a
bit of bloatware pre-installed I've been talking about this for some time and it doesn't seem to be
getting any better with xiaomi and other brands out there just keep making more and more deals
in order to probably maybe just make a little bit more revenue on the side but easy enough to
quickly uninstall those there were about 20 or so bloatware applications so the charge time for the
4500 milliamp hour battery is rather quick I mean it's not the faster it's just 67 watt charging
here but still 4 43 minutes is all it took to go from about two percent battery right up to 100
just ignore this here because the charging timer with antutu here is cut out so that's why I don't
have the correct score but it was for 43 minutes I did time it myself there so I have a wide Vine
level one cert Netflix is in full HD Amazon Prime video all seems to be working on full HD which is
really good and we have the HDR 10 HDR 10 plus support and even Dolby Vision with it which is
great safety net so there's NFC on board with the phone too so if you're going to be using
your banking applications they will work with this xiaomi 13 which is great you're going to have no
issues with them and antutu score so this is very fast for such a well by today's standards smaller
sized phone here really quick good performance and it's just Blazers steams ahead with all those
tests just like this storage so the storage here this is ufs 4.0 now and that is about as fast as
most people's pcie3 ssds so the storage that's in your laptop your Ultrabook will be around about
these kind of speeds it could even be faster so that's a huge increase this is something new that
we get now with the new Snapdragon 8 gn2 is the fastest storage which is good to see now battery
life very strong too for a smaller sized phone now this is a fixed battery life test if you watch my
other reviews then you can compare all of the phones and see just how it feels it's not a bad
result for 120 hertz 120 frames per second just letting it Loop till it runs right down and all
good but you're looking about realistically seven and a half to maybe even eight hours battery life
with the smaller phone so it's solid it is really quite good the battery life oh there's a playback
spec here for Netflix too even though I mentioned it before we are looking at HDR 10 support and
yes proper full HD there so not stuck in standard definition which is really good and then a stress
test is the last little step test that I did run and this shows that although the score is not the
highest I've seen for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 I'm I've seen scores that are around 3700 throttled
back to start with but the performance is constant you can see it only really throttles down about
2.6 percent that's the performance loss we get however the score could actually be a little
bit higher there that was run in the standard mode too with the battery not and the performance mode
and then how about audio so this is something that I've mentioned in my reviews now for years
something that xiaomi does pretty good onto audio so in the Box we don't get this unfortunately a
type c to 3.5 millimeter adapter however they are super cheap you can pick one up literally
for a couple of dollars or so so do invest in one of those if you still want to use your 3.5
millimeter headphones which I do now I've tested it out with the xiaomi 13 and I like what I'm
hearing now this is something that xiaomi and I've mentioned in my reviews now for years does
very well to my ears is the audio so the audio with that is great now the loudspeakers they're
not Harman Kardon tune there's no fancy brand behind it the speakers here and then at the top
so these dual loud speakers they sound pretty decent they're good nice amount of volume to
them as well a bit of bass some mids in there for the size of phone again I think very good
decent so here is a sample letter 100 volume just so you get an idea of what they sound like
foreign
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performance now because the phone is throttling from the get-go that xiaomi have lowered the
performance it doesn't actually perform as good as it does in the larger 13 pro model you don't
really notice anything with the performance no like frame dips anything like that because it's
throttling from the start so it's actually good though the thing is it's going to be
running around 55 frames per second to 60 with Gen chain impact that I've seen using their game
turbo mode you can actually check on the frame rate there and it seems to be just fine now what
I do notice is that yes the phone gets hot and around the back of it you do feel that it heats
up a little bit it gets up to about 44 degrees Celsius so warm to the touch hot to the touch
but the performance unaffected really it just keeps on with that continual same consistent
frame rate when gaming so even though it's a smaller phone the gaming performance is
excellent it just won't be the fastest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile out there for gaming performance
but it is perfect perfectly fine and I do enjoy gaming on his phone thanks to the smaller size
over to our cameras first off video performance so there's some good news and some bad the good
news is this is 320 kilobits per second the audio bit rate so not the 96 kilobits per second that
we often see with xiaomi the bad news is and you guessed it yes no 4K with the front facing
cameras at all so it's 1080p that's all we get with front-facing cameras really not Flagship
spec at all xiaomi needs to change this and I've been granting on it about I don't know hundreds
of my videos now probably that they really do need to get up with the times and add 4K with
their front facing cameras now as far as it goes for a 1080p front-facing camera video quality the
stabilization is good for 1080p the quality is needs to be good as well let's take a look
at those rear cameras Now video performance so it does have Optical and electronic image
stabilization you can apply a bit of Zoom so I'm just going to zoom into some of these boats here
this is uh two times digital Zoom go up then to 3.2 it doesn't actually swap over the camera
at all not looking that great so if I pull all the way back it just stops at one time
so we cannot on the Fly go over to the ultra wide unfortunately so just jog ahead a little
testing that stabilization it's not too bad
and panning around now very slowly hopefully none of that annoying jutter that comes through this
is 4K 30 frames per second you can also shoot 8K 24 frames per second and 4K 60.
as for photo samples this is our Ultra wide here now it's very good the HDR because it captures
a lot of those clouds and gets everything so that's of course daylight does fine this
shot here portrait mode of my daughter looking reasonably good the stitching is okay but it's
very difficult for phones of course to stitch around the fine strains here left and right of
her head there portrait mode for Animals this is my cat Vera didn't work so well the portrait
camera with the three times uh Zone 3.2 times here are looking a little bit blurred and this is their
macro shot so what I like about this is it didn't clip any of these bright colors so those pinks and
the yellows of the flowers actually came out all right but it's not an amazing photo main camera
again so that is the IMAX 800 the 50 megapixel one with Optical image stabilization again and
good light takes a very good photo pretty much like any camera nowadays in your smartphone and
this is just applying now the 3.2 times Zoom which is still again in these kind of conditions a very
good shot there plenty of details to it so this particular shot now is another Ultra wide and
the sun has just gone down to this areas in the shadow and this is where things get a little bit
more difficult still a good shot a lot of detail but slight bit of noise coming into it and here
the main camera starting to struggle a little bit in these conditions you can see the boat in
the background is in the Sun but in the shade here I've noticed that the cameras just aren't anywhere
as good as the 13 Pro which is very obvious now when you take low light photos so this one here
looking terrible to be honest the xiaomi 15 Pro would do about a three times better shot
than that this is okay so if you do have your low light subjects already lit up like these buildings
here with the street lamps it'll come out okay and that's a very usable photo so is this right here
too which is the main camera but there's plenty of lighting with all of these buildings so where it
struggles in the low light is when there's not a lot of lighting around there is a big difference I
feel compared to the Third Team Pro from xiaomi so clearly to me the cameras are the weakness
with the xiaomi 13. there is a definite room for improvement firmware updates hopefully we'll pick
things up when it comes to a special low light camera performance now what I've seen here is
maybe something that I don't know and of course I I can't say this as a fact at all that it looks
and feels like to me that they've intentionally kind of just kept that camera performance so they
want buyers out there that want the absolute best for your Ultra wide or your main camera
performance or low light especially to go out and get yourself the more expensive xiaomi 13
Pro so I do hope with the firmware updates they can address some of the things I've seen with
the low light performance especially and improve upon that so we do have the typical shortcomings
that we generally have now that I mention and just keep repeating myself over and over again
with the xiaomi flagships is that we don't have 4K front-facing cameras we don't have USB 3.1 we
don't have video out with them and that's always going to remain however I'm happy to say that yes
the audio bitrate is the same as the 13 Pro this model right here the more expensive one
being 320 kilobits per second is excellent so the audio quality is not bad at all but it is
very susceptible to wind noise to spare that in mind aside from those things the camera really
and those normal shortcomings of a xiaomi flagship there is a lot on offer here with xiaomi's 13. I
love the screen that it's flat the build quality the squared off metal frame just the size of it
I am enjoying this phone more than the 13 Pro just for that simple fact that's more compact
it's a flat screen it's a brilliant screen that's in this the OLED 120 hertz very good UI
performance and only occasionally I may see that little spinning loading the UI icon that's about
it when it comes to the UI it seems to be very stable so far so this is xiaomi's 13. do check
out my videos of the xiaomi 13 Pro and thank you so much as always for watching this review