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Xiaomi launches its 13 Professional flagship with a 1-inch sensor at MWC


The Xiaomi 13 Professional flagship made a world debut right now on the Cellular World Congress (MWC) being held in Barcelona. With this system — which was launched in China in December — the corporate is banking on a 1-inch important sensor, Leica lenses, and 120W quick charging to make it a Samsung Galaxy collection competitor.

With Android gadgets slicing shut to one another in efficiency and show sections, the digicam has been a significant differentiating think about right now’s flagships. Xiaomi is utilizing a large 1-inch Sony IMX989 50-megapixel sensor with f/1.9 aperture to get the most effective and brightest images in all lighting circumstances. A few telephone producers together with Xiaomi, Vivo, and Sharp have included this sensor in just a few gadgets. The digicam is able to video recording in 8K decision — 4K decision at 60 fps if recording in Dolby Imaginative and prescient.

There’s additionally a 50-megapixel telephoto digicam with a “floating lens” component, which leads to a 3.2x lossless zoom. Plus, the system has one other 50-megapixel sensor in an ultrawide avatar. The 13 Professional has a 32-megapixel entrance digicam with an evening mode and dual-framing (0.8x and 1x) modes.

All this digicam meeting with Leica lenses is positioned in a large sq. housing on the again. And whereas now we have seen sq. digicam bumps in lots of telephones, this one appears a bit totally different because of its dimension.

Aside from the digicam system, the Xiaomi 13 Professional’s spec sheet is becoming for an Android flagship of 2023. A Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, 6.73-inch WQHD+ AMOLED show with 120Hz refresh price and 1,900 nits of peak brightness, help for Dolby Imaginative and prescient, HDR10+, and HLG HDR requirements, 12GB LPDDR5X RAM, and USF 4.0 storage.

Xiaomi’s newest flagship has a 4,820 mAh battery that could possibly be charged in minutes by means of a proprietary 120W charger. Nevertheless, these charging bricks are enormous and ponderous and they don’t seem to be typically straightforward to hold in a backpack. The system helps 50W wi-fi charging with appropriate charging pucks together with 10W reverse charging in the event you rapidly need to prime up the cost your earbuds.

The Xiaomi 13 Professional will probably be out there in ceramic white and ceramic black colorways with 256GB and 512GB storage variants. The system will probably be out there in Europe from March 8 with a base worth of €1,200 ($1,373). Together with the brand new flagship, the corporate additionally launched the Xiaomi 13, with a beginning worth of €999 ($1,056) and the Xiaomi 13 Lite with a beginning worth of €499 ($527).

Xiaomi is in a peculiar place globally. The corporate has fallen behind Apple, Oppo, Vivo, and Honor in the home market. India, the place the telephone maker has dominated the telephone cargo rating for the previous few years, has conceded the highest place to Samsung within the final quarter. The corporate has additionally confronted challenges within the South Asian nation with the departure of prime executives, anti-china sentiment, and tax investigations from regulatory our bodies. Amid all this, Xiaomi is determined to ship a success smartphone.

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