As Xiaomi's annual "digital New Year series", the Xiaomi 12 series was also released as scheduled this year.
For Xiaomi, the Xiaomi Digital Series is not only the company's first mobile phone series, but also the most popular flagship series at present, the most important product line of Xiaomi, the foundation of Xiaomi mobile phones, and the series that best reflects the strategic direction of Xiaomi mobile phones.
In the past two years, the strategic direction of Xiaomi mobile phones has always been to "impact the high-end market", and the Xiaomi 12 series naturally has to undertake this task. Unlike the previous two generations of products, the Xiaomi 12 series released this time seems to have changed its way of playing, not only to pile materials on the hardware, but also to pay attention to the optimization of technology and the actual experience of users.
Among the three products released this time, Xiaomi 12 Pro is undoubtedly the "backbone" product in the product line, and Lei Technology also got a purple (fine flash) color Xiaomi 12 Pro for the first time. The question is, what is the actual experience of this model? Our assessment may tell you the answer.
Comfortable to hold and pleasing to the eye
It is not difficult to find that Xiaomi's products have become more and more refined in the past two years. As the inheritor of this product concept, Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro perfectly shows the industrial beauty of modern products in product design: the micro-slit earpiece at the top of the screen is too small to perceive, each opening on the fuselage is smooth and delicate, and the connection between the screen, the middle frame and the back cover is even more integrated.
The Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro offers four color schemes and two materials, with black, blue and purple all made of AG glass, while green is made of plain leather.
What we got is a purple Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro, and the other two glass back cover versions are slightly different, the purple version uses a new "flash sand" process, not only in the light will have purple and pink color gradients, and this frosted back cover surface particles are quite delicate, the matte texture is stronger, the touch is smoother, and also has the characteristics of not easy to stain fingerprints, even if there is a trace of a light wipe can be erased.
Compared with screen design, many consumers are more concerned about the size and feel of the product. From the paper parameters, the body size of Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro has reached 163.5 * 74.6 * 8.16mm, the fuselage weight is 205g, although from three dimensions to the weight of the fuselage have improved, but basically the same level of Xiaomi Mi 11 Pro, is a very "standard" Android flagship product.
Interestingly, unlike the "standard" paper data, after actually handing, the grip of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro left a very deep impression on Xiao Lei. Holding the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro in my hand, I can feel the slightly curved matte frame perfectly "embedded" into the palm of my hand, and repeatedly swipe through the middle frame with my thumb, my fingers do not even feel a little gap, the feel is silky smooth, and even a little addictive.
For mobile phones, weight and thickness may not be the only measure of a product's grip. Some mobile phones in order to bring the ultimate lightweight body, the whole machine uses plastic materials in a large area, but in the end, the product is completely without texture; some mobile phones compress the middle frame to a fairly extreme thickness in order to bring the ultimate light and thin hand feeling, but make the mobile phone difficult to hold. From the perspective of personal experience, the grip of xiaomi mi 12 pro should be regarded as the first echelon in the flagship mobile phone in recent years.
Finally, let's talk about the design of the rear triple camera. The Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro uses a stepped rear camera module, with the top main camera and the lower two secondary cameras in a stepped bump. Unlike the previous generation, the lens design of xiaomi 12 pro is more conventional, but it is also easier for consumers to accept, and Xiao Lei believes that this step-by-step rear camera design is still remarkable.
Record-breaking "A+" screen
For the screen, Xiaomi has always been very attentive, and the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is naturally no exception.
Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is equipped with a 6.73-inch Samsung second-generation low-power 2K screen, with a resolution of up to 3200 * 1440, support 120Hz refresh rate, up to 480Hz touch sampling rate, the latest E5 luminous material, up to 1500nit peak brightness, JNCD ≈0.43, deltaE ≈ 0.4, support 10bit color depth, Dolby Vision, true color display, the parameters are very good.
From the actual display effect, the entire screen of Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is colorful, delicate and transparent, uniform in color, and the text display is clear and sharp, without grain. The improvement of resolution and contrast has allowed XiaoLei to get a very good look and feel when brushing social media, pixiv gallery and video platform, and the higher screen quality has indeed brought more refined screen display effects.
For the sake of power saving considerations, Xiaomi has specially launched an intelligent dynamic refresh rate technology on the basis of the second generation ltpo, which can intelligently match the most reasonable refresh rate according to the content and usage scenarios browsed by users. According to Xiaolei's actual experience, the current intelligent dynamic refresh rate technology can only take effect in some system applications, and the refresh rate will remain at 10Hz when browsing static content (text, pictures), and the refresh rate will instantly recover to a maximum of 120Hz when sliding the screen. If you can add adapted apps in the future, the experience should be further improved.
New age performance beasts
The Xiaomi digital series update means that the new flagship processor is coming.
The Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro debuts a new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform with a built-in octa-core Kryo CPU, including a Cortex-X2-based 3.0 GHz core, three Cortex-A710-based 2.5GHz high-performance cores, and a Cortex-A510-based 1.8GHz high-efficiency core, and the process process has also been upgraded from the Snapdragon 888's Samsung 5nm process to the 4nm process.
In terms of GPU, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 processor uses the new Adreno 730, although the specific specifications are still unknown, but the official said that the performance is 30% higher than the previous generation, and the power consumption is reduced by up to 25%. At the same time, the processor is also specially optimized for "top quality" and "ultra-high frame rate" games, and can also effectively reduce the power consumption in the special effects scene of the game.
Next, through practical testing, let's look at the specific performance of the new generation of Snapdragon 8 processors on the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro:
In the performance test, Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro got a good score of 1.01 million points in the first Antutu running score test, and the comprehensive score can easily reach more than 1 million points. In contrast, the Xiaomi Mix 4 (Snapdragon 888 Plus) has a running score of about 800,000 points, the Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro (Snapdragon 865) has a running score of about 670,000 points, and the performance of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro ranks first in the current Antutu list, compared to the Snapdragon 888 and Snapdragon 888 Plus has a more excellent performance.
In terms of CPU, we tested with Geekbench 5, and the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro achieved a single-core score of 1165 points and a multi-core score of 3644 points. As a comparison, in the same test environment, a flagship mobile phone equipped with a Snapdragon 888 processor has a single-core score of about 923, and a multi-core score is basically around 3300.
On the GPU side, we tested with 3DMark. In the Wild Life test, the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro ran a good score of 9993 points, while in the more demanding Wild Life Exterme test, the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro ran a good score of 2586 points, and the performance performance was no different from the Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max.
Let's take a look at the actual game performance, first of all, "Glory of the King", the current Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro has perfectly adapted to the high frame rate mode of mainstream games, we will adjust the picture quality to the highest, the frame rate is set to 120FPS. In the course of 21 minutes of gameplay, the performance of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is very stable, the test curve is very smooth, and there is no stuttering phenomenon during the game, which is very good.
Let's look at "Original God", we set the picture quality to the highest, and the frame rate is set to 60FPS. Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro in the case of turning on the performance mode, in the wild monster frame rate basically will not fluctuate, but when entering the city, the copy, because of the large burden, there will still be some frame rate fluctuations, but overall the game experience is still good.
As for the heat problem that everyone cares about, in the environment of 26 ° C room temperature, Xiaomi 12 Pro tried to play "Glory of the King" for 21 minutes, the entire fuselage has a slightly hot feeling, the heat source mainly comes from the upper thumb of the whole machine, the back is near the camera, the fuselage temperature comes to about 42 ° C, the overall temperature is not hot, compared to the previous generation has improved, belongs to the normal game level.
New main camera, new experience
Nowadays, imaging has become an important competitive track in the smartphone market, and this product naturally uses imaging as one of the key features of this key upgrade. The Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro comes with a new 50MP main camera (Sony IMX707 sensor) + 50MP portrait lens (Samsung JN1 sensor) + 50MP ultra-wide angle lens (Samsung JN1 sensor) rear camera combination. In addition to the absence of macro lenses, the image system of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro can be said to be very complete.
In actual experience, the intuitive feeling brought to me by xiaomi 12 pro can be summarized into two points. The first is "fast", the imaging speed of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is really fast, basically it is to press the shutter and immediately produce the film, without waiting at all.
(Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro main camera sample)
This "fast" is not just a description of daytime shooting. Do you remember how long it took to produce a photo the last time you used Night Shot Mode? Exposure for 3-5 seconds, then processing for 3-5 seconds? These days are over. The Mi 12 Pro's night mode can be almost ready to shoot, as long as you press the button, you can produce the film in less than a second, and the most exciting moments can also be captured.
(Fast night view photo in low-light environment)
The second is "vivid", compared with the Samsung sensor used in the previous generation of products, the color of the Sony IMX707 sensor used by the Xiaomi 12 Pro this time is more vivid, the overall tone is warmer, and the look and feel is more pleasing. With the advantage of 1/1.28", Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro's daytime imaging perception is excellent, the sample picture is clean and refreshing, the details are good, the colors are bright and bright, and you can get a good photo with one shot, and the shooting experience has made great progress.
(Top: Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro, Bottom: Xiaomi Mi 10)
At night, the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro's shooting performance is still remarkable. As mentioned above, in the low-light environment, Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro can basically achieve instant shooting, the brightness and purity of the picture taken are very good; in the extreme low light environment, Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro will automatically adjust to the 3-second exposure mode, even if you can't see the five fingers of the place can still get a bright photo, the shadow detail is very rich, the overall performance is satisfactory.
(Low-light shooting)
Finally, the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is also equipped with a 32-megapixel front camera, which also supports the "pixel-level skin renewal new technology" equipped by Xiaomi Civi. Imaging, this front-facing lens performs very well, not only with excellent resolution and reproduction, but also with more skin texture and facial detail, resulting in brighter, more natural selfies.
Other configurations are also unambiguous
In terms of other configurations, this time the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is equipped with a single cell large battery of 4600mAh. Compared with the dual-cell batteries commonly used on the market, the energy density of single-cell batteries is higher, and the energy under the same volume is nearly 400mAh higher. It is precisely because of this battery that the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro was able to put the 4600mAh battery into the slim body.
The question is, since the single cell battery is so good, why don't other manufacturers use it? The reason is very simple, under the existing technical conditions, charging speed and battery energy density are not both, want to higher charging speed, battery energy density will inevitably be affected. Whether to charge at high speed or large batteries has become a difficult choice for manufacturers.
In order to solve this problem, Xiaomi launched the surging P1 chip, which for the first time solved the problem that large batteries and high-speed fast charging could not be combined. The Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro not only supports 120W wired fast charging, but also comes with a 120W Gallium Nitride charger and data cable. With fast charge acceleration turned on, the machine can charge to 32% in 5 minutes and fully charge in about 20 minutes.
In addition to 120W wired fast charging, Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro also supports 50W wireless fast charging, which is completely consistent with the specifications of the previous generation. The machine with xiaomi released 55W, 120W air-cooled wireless charger can achieve full speed fast charging, the actual full time takes about 53 minutes, is currently the top wireless fast charging on the market.
After talking about charging, we look at the sound quality, Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is still equipped with HARMAN Karton tuning stereo speakers, but unlike in the past, this time it is equipped with a four-unit speaker, the top and bottom of the fuselage have a low-frequency unit and high-frequency unit, the bass is thicker, the treble is more delicate, the soundstage is wider, and the low frequency, loudness, and balance ability are comprehensively improved.
From the actual experience, whether listening to music, watching movies or playing games, the external playback effect of xiaomi 12 pro is very good, especially when listening to some songs with more complex instruments, and even can clearly distinguish the low-frequency coordination of the bottom drum and bass. Personally, I think that the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro should be the best in and out of all smartphones at present, and even surpass the Xiaomi Mi 10S.
Finally, let's take a look at the system. As the first mobile phone to ship with MIUI 13 as standard, we can see that the MIUI team has absorbed a lot of user suggestions during the year. Compared with MIUI 12, MIUI 13 puts more energy on system optimization, whether it is the fluency of animation, the fluency of applications, the chirality of operation or the retention rate of background applications.
In addition to optimization, MIUI 13 has also added several useful features, namely a more convenient small window sidebar, a MIUI widget that refreshes the interface effect, the system default font is changed from "Little Milan Pavilion Pro VF" to "Mi Sans", and the newly upgraded MIUI Magic Center function, Xiaomi can finally achieve global device interconnection, and can transfer audio and video and applications across devices.
summary
merit:
1. The fuselage feels good and the design has a sense of quality;
2.4600mAh+120W wired fast charging, get rid of battery life troubles;
3. Excellent performance, full of heat dissipation configuration;
4. The imaging speed is accelerated, and the photo experience is comprehensively improved;
This is the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro, a comprehensive flagship product that meets the functional needs of most users as much as possible.
As an iterative flagship, the hardware configuration and software optimization of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro are nothing to complain about. The new generation of Snapdragon flagship processor, the first Sony IMX707 main camera sensor, the first 120W single-cell high-speed fast charge, and the four-unit speaker are all top hardware specifications. The "shoot and get" image experience can bring users an inexplicable sense of comfort and make up for the shortcomings of the previous generation of products.
If you want to buy a flagship phone and want to experience excellent hand feel, comfortable screen, powerful performance, high-speed fast charging and clear photos, then the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro should be a good choice. If you attach great importance to the weight of the phone, then the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is a product that weighs more than 200g anyway, and perhaps the Xiaomi Mi 12/Mi 12X is the more suitable choice for you.