Xiaomi 12 phone review; Small but fast and powerful

Unboxing Xiaomi 12

Unlike many flagship phones on the market, Xiaomi 12 has a relatively large box inside, in addition to a 67W fast charger and USB-A to USB-C cable, a There is also a transparent protective frame, which will save you from paying extra for a frame for a long time. Meanwhile, some flagships such as Apple and Samsung representatives not only do not have a protective case, but there is no charger in their box, so in the packaging and accessories section, this phone receives a full score of 10 out of 10.

Design and build quality

Xiaomi 12 as said, a phone It is relatively small, which is why when you hold it in your hand, you will be surprised by its ease of use and excellent ergonomics. The phone fits very easily in one hand and it is not a problem to work with it in one-handed mode. The corners of the phone are slightly curved, which means that when you put it on your palm, it does not put a lot of pressure and pain on your hand.

The front panel of the display is protected by Gorilla Glass Victus while The back panel is made of Gorilla Glass 5 and the frame is made of aluminum. As a result, the quality of its construction is very high and you don't get the feeling of poor quality when you hold it. However, a specific resistance standard is not recorded in its technical specification table, and this means that you should do your best to protect the phone. With all these interpretations, the phone weighs only 179 grams, which is placed in the category of products with a suitable weight and does not cause any problems for you while doing work, even for a long time.

On the right frame of the device, we see the power and volume control keys, on the upper frame, the infrared transmitter and the secondary speaker, and on the lower frame of the device, the first speaker, USB-C port and SIM card port. The amount of protrusion of the module from the body can be seen in a noticeable way, and it makes the phone not be completely placed on the back panel on the ground. (of course, the lower part has more margin) we see that on the highest central part there is a hole for installing the selfie camera and below the lowest part It also has a built-in fingerprint sensor, but its location is much lower than it should be, which makes accessing it a little more difficult than you think.

In general. This phone receives a very good score in the design department, but if the fingerprint sensor was installed a little higher and the proximity sensor worked well, there would be no problem with it.

Display quality

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In the display department, the Xiaomi 12 has no particular weaknesses for the price you pay for it. The panel used in this phone is an OLED type with a resolution of 120 Hz, which makes you experience and enjoy high speed and fluency in doing various tasks, including navigating between the different menus of the phone. The resolution of this 6.28-inch panel is FHD+ (1080 x 2400 pixels) and the touch sampling rate reaches 480 Hz. Support for a 360-degree ambient light sensor and 12-bit color depth are among other features of this display.

Xiaomi 12 with this high-quality panel becomes the first product in the market that if the content matches the capabilities of its display. can display 68 billion colors. There is support for HDR10+ technology and Dolby Vision to further improve the visual experience in this product. Although its maximum brightness reached 896 in the tests conducted by the GSMArena website and not the advertised 1100 nits, still the mentioned number is very good and higher than other phones in the same category. The performance of the ambient light sensor is also excellent, so that it does not make mistakes at all, and as soon as the light conditions of the environment change, it quickly changes the brightness of the screen for a better view. The quality and accuracy of the colors displayed in this panel are not very great, but if you set the color display mode to original, the color display accuracy will increase.

Battery life and charging speed of Xiaomi 12

Battery life on the Xiaomi 12 is rated good, not great thanks to a 4500mAh power supply. Of course, with this small size, we didn't expect Xiaomi to put a bigger battery inside this flagship. The same battery can show a relatively good performance; Of course, part of the reason that the phone cannot perform well in this field is due to the Snapdragon 8 generation 2 processor, which heats up very quickly and its consumption increases drastically. In general, the points scored by Xiaomi 12 in the battery section are as follows;

• Talk time: 19 hours and 1 minutes
• Web surfing: 12 hours
• Video playback: 16 hours and 3 minutes

In general, this phone can The status can hardly last a day and accompany the users. The charging speed of Xiaomi 12 is excellent thanks to the 67W fast charger. This charger can restore 87% of your lost battery capacity in just 30 minutes. Also, you can fully charge the battery from 0 to 100% in approximately 46 minutes. Although this amount is not exactly the same as what Xiaomi has announced (39 minutes), it is still close. It does not cause the phone to heat up and the product was cool during the entire test period when it was under charge. In addition to the 67-watt wired charger, this phone also supports a 50-watt wireless charger and reverse charging technology with a speed of 10 watts, so that you can charge digital accessories such as Buds, smart watches, etc. by attaching them to the back panel of the phone. .

Speaker

The quality of the sound played through Xiaomi 12 is very high thanks to the built-in stereo speakers. Also, the famous Harman Karden company has set it up so that there is no room for any discussion. Of course, the problem in this regard is that the sound of the top and bottom speakers are not very harmonious, so it seems that the sound of the built-in speaker at the bottom is a little louder. Maybe Xiaomi has used a more powerful speaker in this part, but we are not sure about that.

Another weakness in this part is their placement, which makes your hand on the speaker when you hold the phone on one hand. be placed at the bottom and block it. Of course, you will get used to this after a period of use. This phone also supports the Dolby Atmos function by default, but its presence causes the sound quality to drop a lot, the bass loses its intensity, and the sounds in the high tone are very sharp. Disabling this feature made the phone perform much better in terms of sound reproduction, both in terms of loudness and balance.

In general, it is not possible to install two completely similar speakers and their inappropriate location. Xiaomi 12 has a special weakness that can perform very well in this section if Dolby Atmos sound is disabled. You can listen to the sound recorded by this phone below.

Xiaomi 12 software and hardware

The default operating system and user interface in Xiaomi 12 are Android 12 and MIUI 13, of which this Chinese company has three years of software and four years of security. will support The positive point is that MIUI updates are no longer dependent on Android, and this is really good news because Xiaomi usually adds features to its phones with a new user interface, not necessarily an Android update. You can see pictures of the user interface of this phone below.

The MIUI 13 user interface also benefits from the possibility of increasing the amount of memory, with the help of which you can add up to 3 GB of virtual RAM memory to the amount of the main RAM of the phone in order to see a little more speed in doing multitasking tasks. The experience of working with this user interface will definitely delight you because it is fast, smooth and full of various and attractive features.

Besides fast and high-quality software, Xiaomi 12 is powered by a powerful Snapdragon 8 Plus generation processor. 1, which is made by TSMC and is based on 4nm lithography. This processor uses eight cores, including a powerful Cortex X2 core with a frequency of 3.19 GHz, three Cortex A710 cores with a frequency of 2.75 GHz, and four Cortex A510 cores with a frequency of 1.8 GHz. Its graphics processor is Adreno 730, which has a very high ability in graphics.

This processor heats up when doing heavy work, but Xiaomi 12 can control this temperature to a large extent thanks to its large cooling pad. slow However, Snapdragon 8 generation 1 is such a hot chip that it loses some of its power in the high pressure of tests. Of course, in real conditions, there is no game or application that can put so much pressure on the phone, and this means that Xiaomi 12 can proudly leave the heavy tests that you do on it.

Camera

In the camera department, there is no news of a telephoto lens, which may disappoint you considering the high price you pay for the Xiaomi 112. slow However, the main camera uses the Sony IMX766 sensor and it has a good performance along with the optical image stabilization. Next to this sensor, a 13-megapixel ultra-wide and 5-megapixel telemacro camera is installed, which has a much better performance than a normal macro sensor. It should be noted that the selfie camera has a 32 megapixel sensor. You can see the sample images recorded by the cameras of this phone below:

Main camera

2x zoom

Ultra Wide Camera

Portrait

Selfies and selfies in portrait mode

In daylight, the Xiaomi 12 takes very nice pictures with its main camera, and everything goes as stable as possible. Excellent details, natural and beautiful colors, wide dynamic range, absence of noise in images even indoors, etc., are among the features of an image recorded by the main camera. Of course, if we are very sensitive, we can point out the saturation of colors in some cases, which are not annoying at all. In the night light, the performance of the Xiaomi representative is very good and it can capture images with good details.

Images with 2x zoom don't look too bad and have good details, but still not sharp. Since there is no dedicated telephoto camera for this purpose, it is natural to find such weakness from Xiaomi 12 in photography at 2x zoom.

The images captured by the ultra-wide camera are also really good. . There is no significant difference between the type of displayed colors, contrast, exposure, etc., so you should expect the colors to still be saturated, but the overall view will be slightly darker. The dynamic range and sharpness of the image are naturally as good as the camera It is not original and sometimes it can be seen in the pictures outside the house, but they are not severe and can be easily ignored. The performance of this camera is not bad in the night light, and although the dynamic range is limited and many details are lost, the contrast and noise levels are still good.

Portrait images are also really good. Details are well preserved and the subject is well distinguished and separated from the background. This can also be said about portraits. However, the images could be a little sharper. but in general, everything, from details to dynamic range, noise removal, natural colors, etc., can be seen in the images recorded by the Xiaomi 12 selfie camera.

Result

Xiaomi 12 In its price range, it is considered a rare phone that it is difficult to find a competitor for it. This phone is one of the best phones you can buy right now thanks to its powerful cameras, very fast processor, beautiful and attractive appearance, small and compact size and many other good things.

Strengths of Xiaomi 12

• 120 Hz display with an OLED panel with 12-bit colors, support for HDR10+ and Dolby Vision
• Design and excellent ergonomics
• Very high charging speed
• High-quality stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support, tuned by Harman Kardon
• Android 12 running on the MIUI user interface 13 with minimal lag
• Powerful Snapdragon 8 generation 1 processor
• Fantastic performance of the main camera in photography and video recording in all scenarios

Weaknesses of Xiaomi 12

• Battery life could be better
• Lack of waterproof standard
• Lack of telephoto camera
• Unstable hardware performance under heavy pressure
• Speakers are not balanced