TechPhonesiPhonesXiaomi 12T Pro just beat the iPhone 14 Pro in one key areaWith iPhone 14 Pro-beating photo sharpness, the Xiaomi 12T Pro combines powerful 200MP photography and top-tier specsWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechPhonesiPhonesXiaomi 12T Pro just beat the iPhone 14 Pro in one key areaWith iPhone 14 Pro-beating photo sharpness, the Xiaomi 12T Pro combines powerful 200MP photography and top-tier specsWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
With iPhone 14 Pro-beating photo sharpness, the Xiaomi 12T Pro combines powerful 200MP photography and top-tier specs
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Xiaomihas lifted the lid on its 200MP camera phone supreme, the Xiaomi 12T Pro. Launched alongside the more modestly specced, 108MP Xiaomi 12T, the Pro marries a sky-high resolution with mighty power, 120W fast charging and a crisp, smooth screen.
While the specs suggest the new 12T is a seriously premium flagship, it actually sits below theXiaomi 12and12 Pro, ditching fancy metal styling and a curved display in favour of a plastic frame and a flatscreen. Once you get past the pared-back design, though, it doesn’t pull any punches, and it also costs less than you might expect.
Xiaomi 12T Pro vs iPhone 14 Pro: About those cameras
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The headline feature of the 12T Pro really is that camera. With a through-the-roof resolution, it crams 200 million pixels into its large camera sensor. Xiaomi isn’t the first to climb to such heights, though, as theMotorola Edge 30 Ultrais a fine-looking phone that’s also loaded up with a 200MP snapper. The Xiaomi, however, undercuts the Moto on price, while matching much of its spec.
We’ve spent about 12 hours with the Xiaomi 12T Pro, and its camera is definitely a standout. The 200MP main camera has a huge (for a smartphone) 1/1.22-inch sensor, and it’s also loaded up with optical stabilisation (OIS). Its f/1.7 aperture lens will let in loads of light, and the phone can capture up to 8K video, in addition to those 200MP stills.
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Xiaomi 12T Pro specification: In a nutshell
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It’s not all about cameras, though. The 12T Pro features a flat 6.7-inch screen that’s covered in Gorilla Glass 5 on the front and features a curved frosted glass back. Its styling is a bit more classical than its predecessor, theXiaomi 11T Pro.
Fans of flat screens should love the 12T Pro. For starters, it gets an AMOLED display, so looks zingy, deep and inky. It’s also sharper than most phones under £1,000, with its 2712 x 1220 resolution taking the pixel density to 446 pixels-per-inch (PPI). TheiPhone 14 Pro Maxscreen is 460PPI, so the 12T Pro isn’t far behind at all.
With its smooth 120Hz refresh rate and a responsive 480Hz touch sampling rate, things should also look and feel nippy, and the screen can automatically switch between refresh rates depending on demands.
Xiaomi loads up most of its phones with great features like stereo speakers and massive, 5,000mAh batteries, and the 12T Pro is no exception. What we don’t always see outside its flagships is an in-display fingerprint scanner, though, making the 12T Pro the first ‘T’ to get one.
With nippy 120W fast-charging, Xiaomi claims the phone can be powered up in just 19 minutes, and it ships with a fast-charger in the box too.
Costing just £699 and packing 256GB storage, with an early bird offer of £599 from 20-24 October 2022 with the new Redmi Pad as a free gift, you could pick up two Xiaomi 12T Pros for as much as a 256GBiPhone 14 Pro Max. So given its price, we’re very impressed on first impression with the whole 12T Pro package.
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