Xiaomi has taken the covers off the Xiaomi 13T and Xiaomi 13T Pro, its next-generation smartphones aimed at offering flagship specs without the high price tag.
Starting at £549 for the standard 13T and £649 for the 13T Pro (we’re still waiting on US and Australian pricing and availability, if at all), the new phones undercut the likes of the iPhone 15 and the Samsung Galaxy S23 with several hundred pounds, but still has solid specs such as fast charging, a comprehensive camera package and high refresh rate screens.
Let’s start with the 13T. Available from September 26, the standard phone comes with the MediaTek Dimensity 8200 Ultra chip (found in the Xiaomi 12T Pro) and has 8GB or 12GB of RAM paired with 256GB of storage. The color options are Meadow Green, Black and Alpine Blue, with the first two options offering a glass back and the last a vegan leather back, which is a departure from the 12T’s plastic back.
The 13T’s 6.67-inch FHD+ screen gets an adaptive 144Hz AMOLED screen with a peak brightness of 2,600 nits and support for Dolby Vision and HDR10+ content. This is an improvement over the 12T’s 120Hz screen.
The rear camera array sees the Xiaomi 13T drop its predecessor’s 108MP main camera in favor of a 50MP camera developed in collaboration with Leica and featuring a 24mm equivalent focal length and a 7P aspherical lens that Xiaomi says will is designed to collect more light to support high dynamic range shooting.
The ultrawide camera jumps from a somewhat paltry 8MP in the 12T to 12MP in the 13T, which should provide sharper landscape shots. Additionally, the somewhat irrelevant 2MP macro camera on the 12T has been replaced by a 50MP telephoto camera. On the front you will find a 20 MP selfie camera with support for night and portrait shooting modes.
Other key specs include a 5,000mAh battery with 67W fast charging, IP68 water and dust resistance, and Dolby Atmos stereo speakers.
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The Xiaomi 13T Pro shares the same camera specs as the 13T, dropping the 200MP lens but getting an overall camera upgrade. For what it’s worth, we weren’t blown away by the 200MP sensor on the Xiaomi 12T Pro, which used pixel binning to capture 12MP shots anyway; a large sensor can capture more details in smartphone photography, but the real quality of the shots depends mainly on image processing and computational cleverness.
On the chip side, the 13T Pro gets the new MediaTek Dimensity 9200+, which can be seen as a downgrade on the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 of its predecessor. But we should test that to see if MediaTek’s chip delivers impressive performance now that it uses a 4-nanometer process. RAM comes in 12GB or 16GB options, with storage available in 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB.
Aside from support for Xiaomi’s 120W HyperCharge charging technology, the 13T Pro shares the same specs as the 13T, but is slightly heavier at 200 grams than the 13T’s 193 grams.
Overall, the Xiaomi 13T Pro doesn’t appear to offer a huge upgrade over its predecessor, but it does see a price drop from the 12T Pro’s £699 price tag, something that’s the opposite of other phone makers who are pushing the price have increased. of their flagships.
The Xiaomi 13T sees a price jump over its predecessor, which started at £499. But it looks like the 13T will offer a decent range of upgrades for £50 more.
We’ll have to put the new phones to the test to see if their specs on paper translate into impressive phones for real-world use. But they will have to bring their A game to find a spot with us best android phones list.