Xiaomi 12 Pro
market on april 27th anywho this is the most premium
xiaomi phone available in
the market right now technically this is
not their top of the line flagship phone
of 2022 since there will also be an
ultra variant just like last year
now i have been using this phone for
about two weeks or so along with the
galaxy s 22 plus so let me share with
you all my experience with it where i
will be focusing on the differences i
noticed while using this xiaomi flagship
against the galaxy s22
okay let me get started with the good
things about this phone and for me one
of the best things about the xiaomi 12
pro has to be its display
there is practically no flagship feature
missing from this screen whatsoever it's
a samsung made 120 hertz e5 amoled panel
with 2k resolution um it's got 480 hertz
sampling rate hdr10 plus support and
it's also a 10 bit display with ltpo 2.0
and quality wise i found that it
competes with vs22 plus quite
impressively i still love samsung's um
color calibration over xiaomi's a bit
more and the s22 plus is slightly
brighter too but that's me nitpicking in
real life usage xiaomi 12 pro's display
is legitimately top quality
the company has also implemented
adaptive refresh ratio very well
likewise the fingerprint sensor here is
an optical one as opposed to an
ultrasonic implementation on the galaxy
s 22 plus but
i don't mind that since the one on the
xiaomi 12 pro is fast and reliable
overall the display experience has been
quite pleasant for the most part and
i don't mean that just visually because
interacting with the screen feels really
good too thanks to the phone's excellent
vibration motor so while typing or
unlocking the device you are greeted
with effective haptic feedback that's
strong but not bossy now as someone who
spends most of the time watching youtube
and netflix i am fairly impressed with
the quality of the speakers too it has
four speakers in total tuned by harman
kardon
again i did compare it against the
galaxy s22 plus and found s22 pluses
audio to have a wider sound stage while
sounding fuller and more balanced too so
although the xiaomi 12 pro's audio
quality is quite crisp it still is not
there with samsung's flagship just yet
here let me play something for you guys
to judge
okay another aspect that i'm quite fond
of about this phone is the design i know
it's not a particularly unique looking
device or anything in fact it's quite
simple but it looks good and more
importantly it's well built so when you
take the xiaomi 12 pro in your hands you
will instantly notice that it's got a
good heft thanks to the premium glass
design and the metal frames from the
very first day i used this phone without
a cover because it felt really good on
my hands but then again i quickly
realized how slippery it was so i had to
slap in this silicon case that xiaomi
provides inside the box and i would
advise you to do the same because unlike
the front which has gorilla glass
vectors the back of this device only
sports gorilla glass 5. and on a related
note something that has bugged me since
day one of using the xiaomi 12 pro is
that it does not come with any form of
ip waiting and that's a major major
plumber for me
i am a bit ashamed to admit that i'm a
very clumsy person so i've had to be
extra careful not to accidentally spill
water or tea or anything on this phone
and uh mind you that i have been using
the s22 plus long before this one and
the s22 plus has gone through a lot
okay um moving on when this phone was
first released in china a lot of
reviewers complained about its insane
throttling issues hence uh the
performance side of things on the xiaomi
12 pro was something i was quite eager
to test out so i also ran a couple of
throttling tests and look at the results
yourself it throttled to 55 percent of
its max performance in this 30 minute
stress test which is terrible for those
of you who are not very technical the
yellow and the red colors on the graph
are bad news
and here the reds would start appearing
within the very first five minutes so i
kept my hopes pretty low regarding the
performance
but surprisingly enough i did not find
many issues here in real life usage
under my day-to-day tours which
basically includes using social media
writing emails um clicking photos
receiving and making phone calls etc the
phone felt fast and responsive with zero
lags or micro starters and i did not
find it overheating or struggling to
keep up even once
it was only when playing demanding games
like gentian impact that this snapdragon
81 powered phone would start showing
signs of distress at its highest graphic
settings the xiaomi 12 pro would get
rather hot around the camera module
within five to seven minutes into the
game and after about 10 to 12 minutes i
measured its peak surface temperature at
43 degree celsius i did not notice
performance throttling so much since the
fps hovered around 50 to 55 at all times
but because the phone gets significantly
warm it does feel somewhat uncomfortable
to hold at times
other games like pubg and call of duty
that go easy on the processor do not
make the phone heat up as much at their
highest possible settings the xiaomi 12
prof would easily give a stable 60 fps
while also keeping the temperatures
below 40 degree celsius all in all i
think it's important to note that xiaomi
12 pro's performance is top class when
using it for regular everyday tasks but
demanding stuff like prolonged gaming
sessions or recording 4k or 8k videos
does turn up the heat literally then
again it's not just the xiaomi 12 pro
that suffers from these issues other
snapdragon 81 phones like the galaxy s
22 plus and the real me gt2 pro show a
similar third world pattern as well and
i will highly encourage you to watch
b-womb's video of the xiaomi 12 pro
where rupesh has explained quite well
regarding this issue and then there's mr
who's the boss who has covered this
thing in his samsung scandal video i
totally agree with his proposed solution
where number one chip manufacturers
should focus on attaining better power
efficiency rather than just peak
performance and number two smartphone
companies need to come up with better
cooling mechanisms if they want to use
such powerful chipsets in their devices
all right moving on to the software side
of things it runs on miui 13 based on
android 12. and for the most part xiaomi
has done a good job of optimizing its
software here previously with the me 11
i had experienced some petty software
bugs that made my overall experience
somewhat better but now the company
seems to have resolved those things so
i'm quite happy about that
plus xiaomi has also promised three
years of os and four years of security
updates for the xiaomi 12 pro which is
neat
okay the xiaomi 12 pro has a unique
triple camera setup with all the three
lenses using a 50 megapixel sensor and
when i tested its cameras against the
galaxy s22 plus i found it to be
competing pretty well xiaomi's photos do
have an extra punch with boosted whites
but in most instances it looks pleasing
i did find samsung's overall color
optimization to be better but if you
don't compare them side by side xiaomi's
images are quite appealing too both in
normal and ultra wide angle shots for
portraits the xiaomi 12 pro uses its two
times telephoto lens with it the subject
focus looks really good and the shadow
processing on the subject is done well
sometimes even better than the s22 plus
itself the s22 plus does have better
skin tone though but xiaomi's pictures
are a close second
in terms of selfies i found samsung's
output to have far better colors
background exposure and skin tone so
there's a lot of room for xiaomi to
improve upon this aspect during night
time and low light conditions the xiaomi
12 pro manages to bring out bright and
detailed photos with less noise
sometimes it does process the image a
little too much making it look a bit
unnatural compared to samsung's but its
camera is still reliable enough during
night time however the xiaomi 12 pro
still misses out on some features to
call it a true flagship camera phone
different lenses when shooting videos in
4k resolution and its selfie camera is
limited to 1080p 60fps recordings only
and the overall color optimization both
in photos as well as videos is still not
quite as there as samsung or apple
but what i will say is that xiaomi is
definitely onto something really
impressive here and further efforts on
camera optimization will surely make it
among the best in the business
lastly battery life is something that
the xiaomi 12 pro has not impressed me
with that much its 4 600 milliamp hour
battery gave me just about 6 hours of
screen on time which translates to
roughly a days endurance on normal usage
however the company has tried to
compensate for that with a super fast
120 watt charger included inside the box
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