Xiaomi’s popularity in the Indian market grew thanks to its value-for-money offerings under the Redmi brand. Last year, however, the Chinese giant decided it was time to bring the premium Mi smartphones to India. It launched the Mi 10 and Mi 10T series in the country last year. And today, Xiaomi has brought its top-of-the-line flagship smartphone, the Mi 11 Ultra, to India. It features a 120Hz AMOLED display, 1.1-inch secondary rear screen, Snapdragon 888, and a chunky camera module.
- Display
Starting off with the front, the Mi 11 Ultra features a 6.81-inch Quad-HD+ AMOLED E4 display that’s curved at all four edges. The panel boasts a 120Hz refresh rate and a 480Hz touch sampling rate, along with a 20:9 aspect ratio, 2K (3200 x 1440-pixel) resolution, and more. The display can go up to 1550nits of peak brightness, supports 10-bit color depth, Dolby Vision, and HDR10+ certification. You also have Gorilla Glass Victus (or Gorilla Glass 7) protection on top.
Display
Internals
Under the hood, the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset powers the Mi 11 Ultra. There’s also 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage onboard. There’s a revamped phase-change cooling system onboard as well. You have a solid-liquid-gas phase cooling system to offer 100% improvement in thermal conductivity in comparison to standard cooling systems.
Mi 11 Ultra: Viewfinder Display
Turning our attention to the rear, the first thing that will catch your attention is the secondary display next to the camera system. Xiaomi is calling it the Viewfinder display and offers you a 1.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen on the rear. The company is using the same tiny display that’s found on the Mi Smart Band 5 here.
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Cameras
Speaking of the optics, the smartphone sports a chunky triple camera setup with a primary 50MP Samsung ISOCELL GN2 sensor. You will also find a 48MP Sony IMX586 ultra-wide lens with a 128-degree FOV and a 48MP periscope-cum-telephoto camera. The telephoto camera supports 5x optical zoom, 10x hybrid zoom, and up to 120x digital zoom. The punch-hole cutout on the front houses a 20MP selfie camera.
Battery Life
As for the battery life, the Mi 11 Ultra includes a 5,000mAh silicon-oxygen anode battery with 67W wired fast-charging and 67W wireless fast-charging. Xiaomi claims that you will be able to fully charge this flagship device in around 36 minutes. Though this flagship device supports 67W charging, the company will bundle only a 50W wired charger in the box due to certification issues in India.
