Xiaomi 13 Pro – the Chinese smartphone maker’s first flagship phone to launch in India in 2023 – went on sale in India for the first time on Friday. This year’s high-end smartphone comes with a hefty price tag compared to its predecessor, the Xiaomi 12 Pro. However, it also comes with several notable hardware upgrades. The Xiaomi 13 Pro is the company’s first handset with a Leica-tuned camera to debut in India. It is also equipped with Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC under the hood.
On this week’s episode of the Gadgets 360 podcast Orbital is the guest host and reviews editor Roydon Cerejo talks to the reviewer Pranav Hegdewho spent more than two weeks Xiaomi 13 Pro, Hegde also traveled to Barcelona for the recently concluded Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023, where Xiaomi launched its latest flagship smartphone. We discuss the latest Xiaomi 13 Pro smartphone, from its camera specifications to how its latest-gen hardware performs with Xiaomi’s MIUI software.
The Xiaomi 13 Pro is the first flagship phone to debut in India with a 75mm floating telephoto lens from Leica. The handset is equipped with a triple rear camera setup that houses a 50-megapixel 1-inch Sony IMX989 primary sensor. At the moment, there is no other smartphone with 1 inch camera sensor in India. There is also a 50-megapixel floating telephoto sensor and a 50-megapixel wide-angle sensor. We discuss the camera performance of all the three cameras in the latest episode.
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You also get other flagship-grade specifications on the Xiaomi 13 Pro, such as Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, paired with up to 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM. The handset flaunts a 6.73-inch 2K OLED display with up to 120Hz refresh rate and 240Hz touch sampling rate. This means that it is at par with other high-end smartphones launched earlier this year.
The hardware specifications of a smartphone are only as good as the software running on it and thankfully, the latest high-end handset from Xiaomi comes equipped with a lean version of MIUI 14 with no bloatware. You can also expect to see an update with Android 16 along with two years of security updates.
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Unlike the Xiaomi 13 Pro model that was launched globally, this phone does not have an official IP68 rating for dust and water resistance. On the other hand, the company has said that the handset is IP68 compliant. is different from oneplus 11 5gXiaomi 13 Pro supports wireless charging and reverse wireless charging. This means you can wirelessly charge the phone at 50W using Xiaomi’s proprietary standard, or more slowly with the more widely supported Qi standard.
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