Xiaomi 11T Pro 5G review Display The Xiaomi 11T Pro 5G sports a 6.67-inch, FHD+, AMOLED display that refreshes at 120Hz. While all that’...

  

Xiaomi 11T Pro 5G review

Display

• The Xiaomi 11T Pro 5G sports a 6.67-inch, FHD+, AMOLED display that refreshes at 120Hz. While all that’s good and dandy, the panel boasts an A+ rating from folks over at DisplayMate, and the device is compliant with HDR 10 as well as Dolby Vision. Now, to be clear, a handful of phones can relay HDR media from OTT services like Netflix. However, the 11T Pro 5G stands out as the device that can utilise Dolby Vision to dynamically adjust the metadata to best optimise an HDR video for the phone’s screen. To cut a long story short, the smartphone offers a phenomenal viewing experience and you’ll revel in watching shows like Snowpiercer or Daredevil on the phone.

• What’s more, the panel gets plenty bright too and at 1,000 nits, I never faced any issues using the phone outdoors, under the sun. Moreover, the panel is bordered by sleek bezels and offers solid viewing angles as well. In fact, I didn’t notice any erratic colour shift when viewing the screen from the side. Furthermore, the device also ships with a ton of display-centric utilities, including a dedicated reading mode and sunlight mode. Users can even tweak the display’s colour temperature to their liking, and choose from a handful of Always-On displays for the lock screen as well. And fret not – the panel is layered with Corning’s Gorilla Glass Victus, ensuring your screen stays scratch-free after prolonged usage too.

• That’s not all as the screen is quite spacious as well. Correspondingly, gamers will be greeted with an accommodating panel that can comfortably fit all their snazzy touch controls without feeling too cramped or congested. Speaking of which, the display offers a touch sampling rate of 480Hz as well and rest assured, the 11T Pro 5G’s panel is plenty fluid and snappy.

Cameras

• The Xiaomi 11T Pro 5G is a dependable camera phone and the handset can click appealing photos during the day. Specs-wise, the device features a 108MP main sensor that works alongside an 8MP ultra-wide angle sensor and a 5MP TeleMacro unit. For selfies, the smartphone ships with a 16MP front-facing camera.

• The 11T Pro 5G clicks abundantly detailed images during the day. The pixel-binned shots from the phone’s 108MP sensor are replete with information, albeit appear a tad contrast-y. Consequently, you’ll notice that the edges of a building, as well as the tyres of the cars, appear distinctly outlined and darkened in the sample shots. That’s not all, as the phone tends to spruce up the image by enhancing the colours in the frame too. To be clear, the colours don’t appear overly saturated, however, the snaps aren’t authentic either.

• On the whole, I was quite happy with the daylight shots snapped by the 11T Pro 5G. The photos offer ample sharpness, good details and appealing colours. If anything, I would’ve liked to see the phone squeeze out more information from the shadows or the darker bits of the frame.

• The lowlight images offer oodles of detail too. What’s more, the snaps don’t turn out too grainy and the device even keeps a lid on lens flaring as well. With the night mode enabled, the smartphone is able to squeeze out even more details, albeit in doing so, the sensor introduces some noise in the frame. As an example, in the slider attached above, you’ll notice that the images snapped with the night mode enabled offer superior details towards the edges of the frame and the handset brings out the trees overlooking the building beautifully. That said, the added details come at the expense of some noise, so you win some and you lose some here.

• The wide-angle images, on the other hand, are serviceable at best. While I was content with the details around the centre of the frame, the photos’ corner sharpness could’ve been better.

Performance, Software and Battery life

• Spec-wise, the Xiaomi 11T Pro 5G is backed by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 processor which works alongside LPDDR5 memory and UFS 3.1 storage. Unsurprisingly, the handset performs like a true-blue flagship and the device breezes through most chores without much hassle. That said, I noticed that the phone would heat up over extended gaming sessions. Moreover, much like most other Snapdragon 888-backed devices, the handset suffers from throttling too. In fact, the handset dipped to 73 percent of its peak performance after a 30-minute run in our CPU throttling test. In contrast, the OnePlus 9RT  handled strenuous loads much better and throttled to just 81 percent of its max performance.

• Be that as it may, I didn’t notice any major frame drops whilst gaming on the phone. To wit, the device can play popular BR titles like BGMI and CoD Mobile at the best graphics and FPS settings. Furthermore, the phone can crunch through edits in Kinemaster without breaking a sweat as well. As for software, the device boots the company’s MIUI v12.5 on top of Android 11. The custom skin is replete with features and offers a built-in app lock, a dedicated screen recorder as well as a decked-out theme store. That said, the interface is chockablock with bloatware and the phone tends to kill apps in memory rather aggressively too. Furthermore, while you can download icon packs from the Xiaomi theme store, the smartphone’s custom launcher doesn’t support third-party icon packs from the Play Store, which is a bummer.

• The Xiaomi 11T Pro is only the second phone in the country to be backed by 120W wired charging. Per the brand, the charging tech can juice up the phone’s 5,000mAh battery in just 17 minutes. Interestingly, even with the handset turned on, I was able to refuel the phone from 0-100 percent in a little over 20 minutes, which is absolutely bizarre. What’s more, the phone’s battery lasts a good while too and I averaged around six hours of screen on time with the phone during my stint with it. Rest assured, you’ll rarely have to rush to work or an outing with your 11T Pro 5G completely discharged.

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