Xiaomi 13 Professional Evaluation: Ought to You Purchase This Cellphone As a substitute of the Samsung Galaxy S23?

Xiaomi 13 Professional — the Chinese language smartphone producer’s first flagship telephone to launch in India in 2023 — went on sale in India for the primary time on Friday. This 12 months’s high-end smartphone comes with a hefty price ticket in comparison with its predecessor, the Xiaomi 12 Professional. Nevertheless, it additionally comes with a spread of notable {hardware} upgrades. The Xiaomi 13 Professional is the primary handset from the corporate with Leica-tuned cameras to debut in India. It’s also geared up with Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon eight Gen 2 SoC underneath the hood.  

On this week’s episode of the Devices 360 podcast Orbital, visitor host and Critiques Editor Roydon Cerejo talks to Reviewer Pranav Hegde, who spent greater than two weeks with the Xiaomi 13 Professional. Hegde additionally travelled to Barcelona for the lately concluded Cellular World Congress (MWC) 2023, the place Xiaomi launched its newest flagship smartphone. We focus on the most recent Xiaomi 13 Professional smartphone, from its digicam specs to how its latest-generation {hardware} performs with Xiaomi’s MIUI software program.

The Xiaomi 13 Professional is the primary flagship telephone to debut in India with Leica’s 75mm floating telephoto lens. This handset is geared up with a triple rear digicam setup headlined by a 50-megapixel 1-inch Sony IMX989 main sensor. In the intervening time, there aren’t some other smartphones with a 1-inch digicam sensor in India. It additionally encompasses a 50-megapixel floating telephoto sensor, and a 50-megapixel wide-angle sensor. We focus on the digicam efficiency of all three cameras on the most recent episode.

Xiaomi 13 Professional First Impressions: New Heavyweight Flagship

You additionally get different flagship-grade specs on the Xiaomi 13 Professional, akin to Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon eight Gen 2 SoC, together with 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM. The handset sports activities a 6.73-inch 2K OLED show with a refresh charge of as much as 120Hz and a contact sampling charge of 240Hz. This implies it’s on par with different high-end smartphones launched earlier this 12 months.

{Hardware} specs on a smartphone are solely pretty much as good because the software program it runs on, and fortunately, Xiaomi’s newest high-end handset is supplied with a lean model of MIUI 14, minus any bloatware. You can even count on to see updates by means of Android 16, plus two years of safety updates. 

Thirty Minutes With Xiaomi India’s Muralikrishnan B — an Orbital Unique

This telephone would not have an official IP68 ranking for mud and water resistance, in contrast to the Xiaomi 13 Professional mannequin that was launched globally. Then again, the corporate has acknowledged that the handset conforms to IP68 requirements. Not like the OnePlus 11 5G, the Xiaomi 13 Professional provides assist for wi-fi charging and reverse wi-fi charging. This implies you possibly can cost the telephone wirelessly at 50W utilizing Xiaomi’s proprietary normal, or slowly with the extra extensively supported Qi normal.  

You may take heed to all of that intimately and extra in our episode by hitting the play button on the Spotify participant embedded above.

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