Xiaomi 12 series will probably become the richest series of products ever released by Xiaomi, in addition to the Xiaomi 12X, Xiaomi 12, Xiaomi 12 Pro released on the same day, it is not surprising that xiaomi 12 ultra will be launched in the future, and even launch a "youth version", from the mid-range to the top flagship a non-leak harvest user. However, Xiaomi 12 is not here, and comprehensively benchmarking the iPhone 13 series and strengthening the image of Xiaomi in the high-end market is the main task of the Xiaomi 12 series.
Of course, even if the conference did not say that the comprehensive benchmarking of the iPhone 13 Pro Max and the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro entering the high-end market, we also know that its direct opponent is only Apple. In order to be more in line with its own high-end positioning, the Xiaomi 12 series has invested more self-developed technology, including even self-developed chips, which may be the flagship model with the strongest "rice flavor" in all Xiaomi mobile phones.
Get up early and catch a late set. Although the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro was obtained very early, we still experienced it for half a month, and then combined with personal experience to talk about its advantages and disadvantages.
The appearance style has changed, and the rice flavor is not strong
Speaking of appearance, in fact, limited to the scope of ordinary smart phones, most manufacturers are basically similar in appearance, and there are only a few places that can change: color matching and process, camera module and front screen, and the screen in addition to the opening and size, it is difficult to see the difference from the naked eye.
In terms of color, the blue (fine flash) version of our hands is biased towards light blue, using frosted glass so the overall texture is more delicate, and there will be a faint starlight flickering appearance. Such a color is actually quite difficult to see on the previous Millet products, and Xiaomi is easy to bias towards two extremes in design: Xiaomi Cvi is too feminine, and the digital flagship is too hardcore to find a suitable balance.
The Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is very good, with color and texture. The design of the Logo is very interesting, and the past is not the same, you can obviously see that the logo is a double-layer design, it should be printed at the bottom of a layer of words, and then the upper layer is polished on the frosted glass to polish out a bright surface, so when the angle is not right, I think the Logo will be a little blurry. The logo has a certain three-dimensional feeling to the touch, and at the beginning I thought it was the kind of floating laser carving process that Redmi used.
The camera module is another interesting place, you can see that it is still a pure "rice flavor". In recent years, Xiaomi's camera modules are more distinctive, and the Xiaomi 11 series models in the past are all small designs that can be seen at a glance in the crowd. The design of this time personally felt that the division of the three cameras and flashes made the visual elements slightly unbalanced, but it was a small problem.
The curve of the waist is relatively tight and narrow because of the hyperboloid design, even if the fuselage does not appear light, but in front of the closed curve, the grip in the hand will give people a feeling of lightness. The phone's center of gravity is properly controlled, and there will be a little pressure, but overall it is not as heavy as the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
The top of the screen is centered on the hole, the aperture is small, and the visual sense is not bad. Of course, the quality of this screen is indeed excellent, using E5 luminous material, brightness increased by 11%, peak brightness up to 1500nit, refresh rate of 120Hz, support 2K display. However, maintaining a high refresh rate and high-resolution use for a long time is a burden on the battery life of the mobile phone, so we have always maintained the refresh rate "smart" use, and the resolution remains 2K.
Here's a look at the effects of LTPO. Turn on the refresh rate display in the mobile phone developer mode, you can see that the frame rate of Xiaomi 12 Pro is generally 10Hz, 60Hz, 90Hz and 120Hz, generally after leaving the screen 1s with both hands, if the screen has no other display content, it will switch to the 10Hz display, if the video is played, it will remain 60Hz, and the game will be determined according to the upper frame limit of the game itself. Different from the strategy of the iPhone 13 Pro series, the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro will generally be directly "pulled full", and the physical button or screen touch will immediately increase to the highest refresh rate of the corresponding scene.
Relatively speaking, although the appearance of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro has not yet reached the point of being particularly stunning, it is already a product that can make people feel satisfied.
The performance is very good, and there is room for improvement in the experience
After the release of this generation of Snapdragon 8 Gen1 on other models, most of the data points to a huge increase in GPU, but the CPU increase is small, and ISP chips are difficult to quantify with data. In general, there are still performance improvements, especially the game experience may have a relatively large improvement.
Simply from the performance point of view, the performance of Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is still expected, the GPU improvement is larger, but the CPU improvement is limited, especially the performance of single core. However, as far as the evaluation experience in recent years is concerned, the bottleneck of the game experience is mostly in the GPU and heat dissipation, and the impact of the CPU is not so large.
There may still be certain problems in CPU tuning, which is relatively close to the single-core score of Snapdragon 888+, but in reality, the body feel can hardly feel the difference, which is why there is a difference when using data to "PVP".
In the GPU part, we originally planned to test it with the Wild Life Stress Test in 3D Mark, which can better reflect the peak performance of the phone, the performance after the downscaling and the performance curve. But I don't know what the reason is, the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro can't run, always prompting a memory overflow - but we have cleared the background.
So it's more accurate to use experience. "Glory of the King" game time is long and short, the long can be more than 20 minutes, the short is also more than 10 minutes, although the frame number has ups and downs, but on the whole, the body feeling is still relatively good, there is no accidental touch, there is no problem of caton.
"Peace Elite", because the game has not been open smooth above the 90fps mode, so the game is less and less "representative", in terms of effect, single-player mode is also difficult to appear stutter. If there is, it's basically network fluctuations and other issues, not GPU issues.
The effect of "Original God" we ran two picture quality, one is high quality, one is medium quality. These two picture qualities are more representative, after all, before we tested the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 and the full blood version of A15 to run "Original God" extremely high picture quality, the effect is indeed not satisfactory, so this time directly from the middle of the picture quality. The test method is to run the map from 8:00 a.m. in Liyue City and run in a cycle for about half an hour.
The 60fps mode is opened in medium quality, and the frame rate is maintained quite well overall. The average frame rate of 58.93fps, although there is a certain phenomenon of frame drop, but it is not serious, and in addition to 2 times fell to 20fps (another time is accidentally pressed to the power button lock screen, ignored), other times are basically maintained above 50fps, frame rate and stability are good, half an hour of test time is also more representative.
"Original God" has risen to a high quality, and the frame rate map has inevitably changed to a certain extent, but the experience has not dropped too much. The first is that the average frame rate will fall to 57.49fps, and the second is the frequency increase when the frame rate falls below 50fps, but it is an acceptable situation relative to the overall frame rate performance. Basically, the game will only have a significant stuttering phenomenon until the frame count falls below 45fps.
At this time, the fuselage temperature can be used as a reference, the front side is 42.2 °C, the back side is 40.7 °C, concentrated near the camera module. Snapdragon 8 Gen1 flagship model is not much, if you count last year's flagship, Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro's body temperature is a first-class level.
The above software tests and game experience are based on the extreme mode of Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro, which needs to be turned on in developer mode, and the power consumption temperature will be relatively higher, and the core temperature can be explained. But the game's frame rate stability, as well as the temperature effect of the fuselage, are very good performance, Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro dragon training means really have a hand. However, I personally think that Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is best to add a shortcut switch to the extreme mode or performance mode, so as to quickly open the best experience mode in the game scene.
The imaging experience is even better
Xiaomi's images have been complained about a lot in the past, which is simply "straight male aesthetics". Of course, this situation is an inherent impression, and the last time the mobile phone was said to be estimated to be traced back to the Xiaomi 6 era. Now Xiaomi, or the domestic Android mobile phone manufacturer algorithm tuning, basically have a better performance, the difference lies in the style between different brands.
Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro only used three cameras this time, which is also the trend of the mobile phone market in the past six months, in the Qualcomm Snapdragon ISP chip to support the three cameras at the same time, and has higher shooting specifications, dig deep into the ISP chip capabilities and hardware performance, far better than the number of lenses to stack up the game.
Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro rear triple camera is the main camera + portrait + ultra-wide angle, of which the main camera debut Sony IMX 707 sensor, with a 1/1.28-inch oversized bottom, pixel size 1.22μm. The other two sensors are Samsung's JN1, the pixels are 50 million, which can be said to be an unprecedented "three main cameras" on the mobile phone.
In terms of actual sample performance, if it is a perfect score of 10, I can personally score a 9. Its sample color is relatively saturated compared to the real world, the main camera image quality is higher, the straight out of the look and feel is very transparent, and the sharpness of the edges of the picture is quite good.
Filter play is also varied, but for people like me who are not very good at shooting, using black and white filters is the safest way, especially in places with a sense of age like traffic teahouses.
Ultra-wide angle lens thanks to this super pixel sensor, compared with the general 20 million pixels or 13 million pixels ultra-wide angle, Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro's color resolution is remarkable, of course, because of the weather reasons, this large scene does not look very pleasing.
The effect in the indoor environment is also good, the brightness of the picture is maintained well with obvious lighting, there is no overflow, the colors are also very bright, and it looks very comfortable.
In terms of night scene, Xiaomi 12 Pro is blessed with the Night Owl 2.0 algorithm, as a whole, it is not a relatively rough way of brightening and suppressing the light, it is closer to the real light environment, what can be seen is that the highlights on the light sign are pressed down, and the dark sky has not become like daytime, it looks very real. This is also a path chosen by some manufacturers after the changes in imaging hardware in the past six months.
It is worth mentioning that the night scene imaging speed of Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is quite fast, basically do not have to wait for the processing time of the later stage, and the experience is still very good. The effect of the three main camera improvement this time is obvious, although the high-power zoom gameplay is no longer the mainstream on the mobile phone, but after the cancellation, the manufacturer can use more power to polish the other camera, and the improvement is greater from the use experience.
Single-cell fast charging is very good, and the battery life is trying its best
For a flagship model with a high refresh rate of 120Hz + 2K resolution, 4600mAh may be less secure. However, the actual situation is that the resolution and refresh rate of Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro are supported by intelligent adjustment, that is, according to different scenes, the endurance strength may have a relatively large change.
Take a look at our most commonly used 5G online video endurance model. 5G network with stable signal, B station 1080p TV series, the highest brightness, volume, intelligent refresh rate and resolution of the mobile phone, starting from 100% power to play THE TV series, a total of 387 minutes, that is, early 6h, compared with the past 4500mAh 1080p flagship model is a slight improvement. Of course, the intelligent resolution we can not determine whether it is the default two resolutions in the system settings to switch back and forth, but in terms of effect, the battery life is also a best effort.
120W fast charge is generally a dual battery cell program, this time Xiaomi 12 Pro used a self-developed surging chip, increased the investment in its own innovative technology, the effect and the past 120W is not much different, from zero full takes 21 minutes, trickle charging process is unexpectedly short, the first 9 minutes can be charged into 62%, 10 minutes can be charged to nearly 70%, is very good.
Battery life is actually still to meet expectations, but in fact, for obsessive-compulsive patients like the author, the daily use of 2K resolution is actually not too good, if you use Wi-Fi to light the screen time a little less indoors, basically can be charged a day. If you brush your phone for a long time, or play a game for a while, the power will drop faster, and you need to charge it before you leave work to dare to go home.
Review summary
Of course, there may be many friends who want to see the experience of MIUI 13, but whether it is the previous MIUI 12.5 or this MIUI 13, although it has been used for a while, but its actual experience is not deep enough, as far as the author has seen, basically there has been no BUG, the battery life problem temporarily has no opportunity to brush back MIUI 12.5 so it is temporarily impossible to verify whether there is any improvement. Regarding MIUI 13, we will share our experience with you after looking forward to our more profound experience, especially the "Magic Enjoyment Center".
In other aspects, Xiaomi 12 Pro is deeply cultivating in various experiences, the style of design and imaging has changed, and Xiaomi 12 is also adding more Xiaomi branding to mobile phones as much as possible, and the boutique strategy is also more conducive to Xiaomi to forge ahead in the high-end market, and Xiaomi 12 Pro will inevitably become a banner of Xiaomi mobile phones in the high-end market.