Mi 11 Ultra — launched final month in India and set to go on sale quickly — is Xiaomi’s costliest flagship ever, with a price ticket of Rs. 69,990. It presents quite a bit for that cash, with its specs together with a 50-megapixel major digicam sensor, a periscope lens with 5x optical zoom, and a quad-curved AMOLED show. There’s additionally, curiously, a tiny secondary show on the again. Are all these choices sufficient to persuade a buyer who’s searching for a high-end smartphone at Rs. 70,000 — and who may need their eyes on the OnePlus 9 Pro or the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra? We focus on this and different issues in regards to the Mi 11 Ultra on this week’s episode of Orbital, the Gadgets 360 podcast.
Host Akhil Arora speaks with Gadgets 360 deputy opinions editor Roydon Cerejo and reviewer Aditya Shenoy to grasp the cons and execs of the Mi 11 Ultra. The smartphone was launched in India in a single 12GB RAM + 256GB storage variant. It is the corporate’s first try to enter a phase that goes up in opposition to the most effective of the most effective from the likes of Apple and Samsung.
For what it is value, Xiaomi has tried to transcend the mid-range market and convey a few of its high-end telephones to India in the previous as nicely. For occasion, it launched the Mi 10 at a beginning value of Rs. 49,999 in India final yr. The Mi 11 Ultra, nonetheless, appears to be designed for the viewers who was beforehand considering of getting a brand new Samsung Galaxy S-series cellphone or a model new iPhone.
The Mi 11 Ultra cameras supply as much as 120x digital zoom. It has two AMOLED shows (though one in all them is principally a gimmick). And it has the identical quantity of RAM and storage as you will get on the top-end OnePlus 9 Pro mannequin, in addition to the identical Snapdragon 888 SoC. Both these cellphone additionally come on the identical value — Rs. 69,999. While each are working on Android, there’s a distinction in the expertise, for the reason that Mi 11 Ultra runs on MIUI, which is what you will get on most Xiaomi telephones.
Mi 11 Ultra Review: A Leap of Faith
Of course, there’s much more in regards to the Mi 11 Ultra. If you are questioning whether or not it is a good decide or not, take heed to the total dialogue by hitting the play button above. You may observe Orbital, the Gadgets 360 podcast, on (*11*)Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.
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