so I'm back now with the xiaomi 13 Pro and this time around it is their Global version
so I'll go over my usual review process with this phone it's been out now for a month and
of course it is a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Flagship but the interesting thing with this phone
like a few others now is it does have a course that Sony IMX 989 that's a one inch type sensor
got a lot of potential F 1.9 aperture 50 megapixel Ultra wide and an optical zoom camera of 3.2
times which is impressive because it's not a periscopic setup it's just a standard kind
of setup there with the lens so it's great they managed to get that kind of zoom out
of it and the screen of course it is a 6.7 three inch screen with 120 hertz Quad HD Plus
resolution and that super rapid fast 120 watt charging from them included in the box but
the xiaomi 13 Pro Global version this time around we've got our clear TPU case quick
start guide warranty card safety information SIM tray tool our charging cable so that is
a type A to type c and then the very potent 120 watt charger which charges the phone in
around about 20 plus minutes I'll give you the exact time later on in this review and
the build quality of the phone is excellent we have the ceramic back here and we're looking
at a phone that does weigh 210 grams so it's a little Hefty the size of it middle frame
around the outside and we have that six point seven three inch screen and Screen fingerprint
reader seems to work pretty well although that time when I tested it it was not that
quick there we go that was fast it was just the animations I think I don't know why it
was a bit slower then so it's 1440p this covered with gorilla glass vectus and we do have with
them this time around an ip68 dust and water resistant so it can they say handle 1.5 meters
being submerged in water for 30 minutes now down the bottom here we have our type c port
and the SIM tray which takes two Nano Sims so this type c Port is USB 2 speeds only yes
uh that should not be happening definitely not in 2023 this should be USB 3.1 we should
have video out which we lack loudspeaker down to here microphone antenna line so the frame
is metal all around the outside and on the top an IR transmitter this little hole here
is just a port for the loudspeaker which is part of the earpiece and yes2 microphones
here at the top now the thickness of it it's 8.7 millimeters but that is not including
the camera module which you can see does stick out quite a bit that then brings it up to
about 13 off the top of my head millimeters or so so it's pretty chunky when you do include
that camera module now the left and right bezel is because of the curve of the screen
aren't too bad you get a little bit of color shifting right on the edges here and you can
see the top and bottom bezel there is a little bit there now the cut out here in our screen
this does contain a 32 megapixel selfie camera Unfortunately xiaomi they still don't do 4K
with their front-facing cameras now the build quality is fantastic overall really good and
just like the screen here so it's an ltpo AMOLED display 120 hertz W Vision support
HDR 10 plus and in the normal high brightness mode it's 1200 nits but it can Peak for short
periods of 1900 so in direct sellout right now you can see the screen make it out super
clear it's really good and that banding you're seeing that is just on camera speaking of
banning like right now here there are no DC dimming options we don't get it with this
panel at all but I don't actually see any flicker coming from the screen at all so it
hasn't been a problem for me now with the refresh rate you can see we've got options
here that you can override it to 120 hertz or 60 hertz but there is no 90 Hertz option
which would have been nice now you can actually see now in the screen here see a little bit
of that banding happening that is just on camera I don't see it in person which is great
now there are the other options in here for example like their screen resolution by default
they actually keep it on full HD Plus probably to help the battery life but you can leave
this option on to switch the the resolution automatically to lower it down to save on
that uh when your battery is starting to get a little bit low there of course so you've
got scaling you've got their color scheme modes and all of that stuff all that good
stuff is all in there of course and I just keep it on Vivid because that is their default
setting but I would probably go with the original color which does look a little bit more correct
but keep it on that because it just is a very nice Punchy great display now the touch response
very good I've had no problems at all with it and of course we are on MIUI 14 here Android
13 base the performance of the UI has been very smooth and good and I'd say that it's
a little bit better than the Chinese ROM version but occasionally when I have gone to unlock
the phone I've seen that little spinning icon like it has to load in the UI which is not
great to see especially when you're with this kind of spec like ufs 4.0 storage and a Snapdragon
8gn2 there shouldn't be any animation or loading type lags anywhere but everything in general
is super quick and snappy it's a very rare occasion that I do happen to see that little
kind of loading icon pop up bloatware there is a little bit present not as bad as their
mid-range or their more budget orientated phones but I did still count about 15 or so
applications around 1.15 gigabytes of what I classify as junk that I had to uninstall
first I really do hope they can tone down on that a little bit so the internal storage
because I've got the 256 gigabyte model here we have ufs 4.0 now if you do get the 128
gigabyte model then it's going to be ufs 3.1 but this is really quick I mean look at those
speeds that's basically like a pcie 3.0 SSD you'd find in a gaming laptop business laptop
Ultrabook um PC builds and things so it's it's excellent that's never going to cause
any system bottlenecks at all and look at this score now I did put it into the performance
mode here this is and two to 9.5.6 and an amazing score really well over a million points
now we're getting now with the Snapdragon 8 gen 2.
it's a potent chipset and just a massive Step Up all around over the Snapdragon 8 gen 1.
now we do have a wide Vine level one cert so Netflix Amazon Prime video all working
in full HD that is great to see and you can see it does support here Adobe Vision HDR
10 HDR 10 plus and it's also listing different refresh rates on there so those lower ones
that's when it's in the battery saving mode just dropping it down but as I mentioned before
there's no 90 Hertz which would have been great camera 2 API support for all of the
cameras this is good so if you did want to test out open camera gcam ports maybe something
for that one inch sensor with different style to it you've got that option safety net status
yes it passes this you can use your banking apps we do have NFC on board you're pretty
much covered here with the xiaomi 13 Pro and what about this trotany now this is really
good uh with the Chinese version it throttled quite a bit worse than this but you can see
that they've started the performance off a little bit lower but it's consistent here
and very good it barely throttles so you can see here just 2.7 percent is the drop in the
performance which is absolutely nothing for this test so it's excellent when it comes
to Long gaming periods the phone does get a little hot but it doesn't throttle like
crazy in fact this throttle is a lot less than my Samsung Galaxy S 23 Ultra then our
battery life this is a fixed test so it's exactly the same on all the phones I test
that's why I do this and it got a very decent time here for 120 hert display nine hours
and 28 minutes now real world you're looking around about seven and a half hours seven
hours that I'm normally getting with the xiaomi 13 Pro then our charge times very quick so
I started out that you can see here with three percent battery and it was fully charged in
26 minutes with the 120 watt charging now the battery's capacity is 4 700 milliamp hours
how about audio quality then well very good and I have placed calls on it no problem C
quality is excellent and if you do want to listen to 3.5 millimeter out you're going
to need one of these of course a type c to 3.5 millimeter adapter now when you do use
one of them the quality is again excellent this is typical xiaomi and I've mentioned
it many of my reviews now their audio quality via type c and when they did used to have
3.5 millimeters well they still do with their mid-range stuff excellent really good there
now the haptics on the phone I wanted to mention you get nice little short little pulses that
are reasonably strong so the haptics feel pretty good with the xiaomi 13 Pro so here's
a sample of the two loudspeakers now at 100 volume [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]
so I will say this about the loudspeakers they've got a bit of bass to them there's
some meds in there too as well and in trouble you can hear that the highs but I do wish
the speakers were a little louder this time and I hope with their next release model if
they do bring an international Global xiaomi 13 Ultra that they boost up the volume or
just change the hardware a little when it comes to the loudspeakers not that these are
bad it's just that could be a little louder now looking at the gaming performance so it's
exactly what you'd expect for a Snapdragon gin two very quick really fast here now I
do have their game Turbo performance mode enabled that cuts down on any of the frame
dips that you may occasionally see with Genji and impact on the highest settings here too
at the moment and I do have the resolution set to 1440p so it's scaling up to that now
when you swipe here from the top you can see I've got it into that boost mode while you
can put boost on I'm running performance and the frame rate around about 60 frames per
second but you do see it dip down a little bit when you are playing there's a lot of
enemies on screen you can see when I just looked around there that it was a little laggy
but when things start to cation it does improve the performance and The Thermals are very
good so the phone gets a little warm to the touch around about 47 degrees Celsius which
is to be expected but it maintains the performance just like what I showed you with 3D mind it
seems to be very consistent with the performance so overall great for gaming and playing the
latest titles like gen chain impact here and over to the cameras now with our xiaomi 13
Pro so it has a strong set of cameras we've got that one inch sensor Leica also co-engineered
with xiaomi these cameras but the front-facing camera here has a weakness compared to other
flagships I've talked about it a lot of my videos and that is no 4K video so we have
just 1080p with this front facing camera now for 1080p quality it is very good but I would
love to see finally one day from xiaomi a 4K option with the front-facing camera now
you can see the changes here this is kind of normal it's keeping my face exposed well
but the background a little bit Overexposed and I step into the sun it's going to shift
over that of course is normal with the adjustment there to the exposure which I've got it on
auto you can tap to hold to lock it if you want to override that rear camera footage
now 4K 30 frames per second you can shoot 4K 60 and even 8K too now this is the Sony
IMX 989 that one inch sensor and stabilization is very good I'm actually riding a bike here
at the moment it's very steady it does work really well the electronic image stabilization
and unfortunately the castle is closed so when you're shooting with the main camera
and in 4k 30 I can pull back here with the digital zoom and it will swap over then to
the ultrawide camera you did see a bit of a change here in the shift this of course
is just using electronic image stabilization it is not using optical because it doesn't
have Optical image stabilization the ultrawides don't of course I can also start zooming now
so this is two times up to three times and 3.425 times now digital Zoom it does have
Optical image stabilization and electronic one thing I want to point out is that there's
quite a bit of this lens glare that you will see they do need an anti-glare coating on
their lenses [Music]
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now the front-facing camera sadly for video there is no 4K option I've mentioned this
a lot other no's uh well we don't with the type C Port have video out unfortunately and
it's USB 2 speeds in 2023 is just wrong on so many levels come on xiaomi you really do
need to address this so I hope with the xiaomi 14 pro or with the 13 Ultra or maybe the 13
T Series where that comes out we finally get some of these things corrected like a 4K front-facing
camera and USB 3.1 video out would be great so the display is excellent It's a Quad HD
display so 1440p and it's really sharp super bright as well 120 hertz good everything checks
out all this apart from the pricing in Europe is just wow 1400 Euros at the time of this
video for this 13 Pro now that price is at about 200 Euros above the Samsung Galaxy s23
Ultra and they're really losing what xiaomi was about of getting these quality phones
Hardware wise and cheaper than the competition but now they're charging more than the competition
it's a big ass xiaomi I mean come on your Global pricing is just getting out of control
I don't know what's going on there but I do hope xiaomi can address this and then it could
be a phone that I could recommend and say you know what yes go for it it's so much cheaper
than the iPhone 14 pro so much cheaper than the s23 but no sadly that is not happening
so thank you so much for watching my review here of the xiaomi 13 Pro