In the past two years, the Android flagship can be said to be very disappointing, and even Xiao Lei, who does not like Apple's mobile phone, has purchased the iPhone 13 mini in desperation. Under the crisis, all mobile phone manufacturers are looking for workarounds, and half of 2022 has passed, and a new batch of flagship machines is coming.
As the top five in domestic sales and the top three in global sales, Xiaomi has performed generally in the field of flagship machines in the past two years, and some mobile phones have fever problems.
According to @Digital Chat Station, Xiaomi's flagship launch in the second half of the year will be held in early July, less than 20 days ago. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun also promoted the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and the new machine on Weibo today, which confirmed the accuracy of this revelation.
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Xiaomi's new flagship has a total of four models, namely Xiaomi 12s, 12s Pro, 12 Ultra, and MIX5, the first three can be basically determined to be released in early July, MIX5 has not yet determined the specific release time. Among these four mobile phones, the most anticipated by the majority of rice noodles is undoubtedly the Xiaomi 12 Ultra, with Xiaomi conventions, this phone will be full of configuration, and the price is relatively affordable, but can it save the decline of Xiaomi and even Android flagships in the high-end mobile phone market?
Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra, configured full of full
Xiaomi is the domestic mobile phone manufacturers, the most willing to pile up materials, Xiaomi 12 Ultra accurate configuration exposed to the news is not much for the time being, but we can already calculate the approximate.
First of all, in terms of screen, 2K 120Hz 10bit will not be less, the material should be E5, plus the upgraded LTPO technology to improve the endurance. It is a bit strange that the earlier digital blogger @Panda was very bald and said that the Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra fast charging power is only 67W, and the battery capacity has reached 5000mAh.
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67W is barely enough, but Xiaomi obviously has 120W fast charge, but does not give 12 Ultra to use, people are a little confused, may be considering the high power and fast charging cost is too high, coupled with the thickness of the phone, so there will be a trade-off. These three points are routine upgrades, and the configuration that Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra is most expected by users is undoubtedly the Snapdragon 8 + Gen 1.
@Digital Chat Station has confirmed that the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 was first launched by Xiaomi, and the processor has increased the frequency of large core, medium core, small core and GPU in addition to using TSMC's 4nm process. A few days ago, Geek Bay has released the evaluation ability of the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 engineering machine, and the results are quite surprising.
The Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 single-core score was 1301 points, an increase of 3.7%, and the multi-core running score was 4211 points, an increase of 10%. Compared with MediaTek's flagship CPU Tianji 9000, the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 single-core running score is slightly better, and the multi-core running score is slightly inferior. In fact, the performance of the flagship processor is no longer a bottleneck, and there are not many high-load environments, and the focus is on power consumption.
Source: Geek Bay
After geek bay evaluation, the maximum power consumption of Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is only 8.3W, and the performance is even stronger than that of Apple A14, which is more than 2W lower than the power consumption of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Tianji 9000. In the actual game test environment, the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 engineering machine ran full of 60 frames of "Original God", and the power consumption was only 6.6W, although there was a gap with Apple, but in the Android chip, it was only 0.3W higher than the Tianji 8100.
The temperature is even more exaggerated, after playing "Original God" for 30 minutes, the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 body temperature is only 44.7 °, and the Redmi K50 equipped with Tianji 8100 is flat, which is lower than the temperature of the iPhone 13 Pro Max. It should be noted that snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is an engineering machine version, there is no strong heat dissipation, if it is the heat dissipation of the mass production flagship machine, the data may be stronger. Chances are, a new generation of ice dragons is coming.
Source: Geek Bay
In addition to performance and heat, the Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra has another configuration worth paying attention to, that is, the shooting aspect. First of all, it can be determined that the three-main camera design has a high probability of retention, although many flagship machines have cut the periscope telephoto, but Xiao Lei believes that Xiaomi will not give up, 10 times hybrid optical zoom, can still be used as a telescope. What is most expected is what effect Xiaomi's cooperation with Leica will have.
Unfortunately, @Digital Chat Station said that the Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra does not have the Coke logo (red Leica logo) that rice noodles are looking forward to. Xiao Lei's rice noodle friends said that the Leica Cola label is too expensive, most of Huawei's flagships are not on, and Xiaomi will not be on. Xiaomi and Huawei were originally the top three regulars in the DxOMark list, before Huawei had Leica blessing, long-term top of the list, and now Xiaomi and Leica are united, with the help of Leica's tuning technology, there is a high probability that they can regain the top spot.
First-class screen, Ice Dragon CPU, Leica plus three main cameras, Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra configuration has been full, as long as the price does not exceed 7,000 yuan, are called the top cost-effective flagship. However, how does a mobile phone experience, not only look at the hardware configuration, but also look at the system configuration, MIUI line?
MIUI, is it the next HarmonyOS?
@Digital chat station exposed a surprising news, that is, the system of many domestic mobile phone manufacturers should imitate HarmonyOS. As a former Mate 30 Pro user, Xiao Lei is full of good feelings for Huawei's EMUI system, and now uses a magic UI that is no longer a Huawei mobile phone, but often experiences HarmonyOS, as well as the glorious Magic UI born from HarmonyOS.
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In terms of experience, the fluency and stability of HarmonyOS and Magic UI are indeed higher than MIUI. As for the function, MIUI and HarmonyOS have their own advantages, if Xiao Lei wants MIUI to join which function of HarmonyOS, it should be a large folder.
The large folder is the application subsystem developed by Huawei, which is very convenient for users to start the App, the large file function, the first nine Apps, only need to click to open, the back only need to open the application folder, like the ordinary application folder to use.
Now the vast majority of mobile phone systems use small folders, you need to click twice to open the desired App, the steps are one step more than the large folder. Both Huawei and Honor take into account the user's usage habits, so they also provide a small folder function.
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MIUI has a lot of functions, but because there are so many functions, it seems a bit bloated, and the fluency and stability are slightly poor. When adding new features, Xiaomi needs to think more about whether it should delete some functions to make the system more streamlined.
Previously, Xiaomi had exposed that it would launch a MIUI Go system adapted to low-end models, similar to Android Go, in the case of ensuring the main functions, cutting off the functions that most users rarely use to ensure the stability of the system and reduce the demand for performance. MIUI also needs to be streamlined, removing features that some users don't need.
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In May this year, Google officially released the Android 13 system, and Xiaomi confirmed the first batch of installations. From this point of view, the MIUI 14 system based on Android 13 may really be the first launch of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra.
MIUI was once the only file in the Android system, but after entering the 5G era, friends have made efforts, ColorOS, Magic UI is not inferior to MIUI. Nowadays, Xiaomi is painful, MIUI has been greatly changed, to learn from friends, whether it can be more fluent, Xiao Lei does not dare to confirm, but it is definitely more comfortable to use.
Although it is not rice noodles, but Xiao Lei has always had a Millet mobile phone as a backup machine in his hand, the Android flagship in recent years is really disappointing, after Huawei withdrew, the vacated flagship machine market was almost all eaten by Apple. With snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, first-class screen, and new MIUI blessing, can Xiaomi 12 Ultra reverse the pattern of the flagship market?
The Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra is not alone
With the support of Apple's intelligent ecology and iOS system, the iPhone is almost in a monopoly situation in the flagship market, but Android manufacturers have not given up and are still insisting on fighting. From the perspective of hardware configuration, Xiaomi 12 Ultra is almost all ahead of the iPhone in other aspects in addition to processor performance, but looking at the ecology, Xiaomi is far behind.
In recent years, Xiaomi has continuously invested in building an ecosystem, and has finally achieved some results, such as cross-platform interconnection of mobile phones, tablets and laptops. However, Apple even headphones, AirTag and other small accessories, can be interconnected with Mac, iPad, iPhone, at any time through a device to view all their devices, Xiaomi is still far behind.
In the opinion of Xiao Lei, after the Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra has been upgraded by the chip and system, the experience will definitely be greatly improved, and the sales volume will most likely exceed the Xiaomi 11 series. However, with the efforts of a manufacturer of Millet, it is certainly impossible to reverse the disadvantages of Android manufacturers in the flagship market, fortunately, Xiaomi is not alone.
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@Digital Chat Station confirmed that there will be a number of new machines released in July. Combined with OPPO, vivo and other brands, they have confirmed that they will support Android 13 in the first batch, and it is expected that at least three manufacturers will release new flagships in July.
As the starter of Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, Xiaomi has a long way to go, if the Xiaomi 12s series power consumption and heat performance is outstanding, it will be a shot in the arm for all Android manufacturers.
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