Xiaomi 11T Pro 5G Hyperphone (Celestial Magic, 8GB RAM, 256GB Storage) |SD 888|120W HyperCharge|Segment’s only Phone with Dolby Vision+Dolby Atmos

My first impressions with the phone, it’s obviously not laggy or gittery at all, very smooth especially with 120Hz enabled. The screen is pretty good, i find the sRGB mode the most comfortable setting for my eyes, but I’m still testing.

The 150W charging is unreal. Coming from a phone that charged at 10W and had the same battery capacity, the speed feels wrong (17min for 100%), but no issues with it yet. Battery life however, will vary based on usage and if you want to pull the most out of it, you’re gonna wanna keep the display at 60Hz most of the time (This is not a variable refresh rate display, it can only do 60 or 120) and keep stuff like Bluetooth and NFC off when you’re not using it. The battery life seems disappointing, but given that my previous phone also had a 5000mah battery and comparatively less power hungry display and processor, it seems fair, and by just keeping the screen at 60Hz and your radios off when you’re not using them, you can get 1-1.5 days easy.

Performance-wise, people have complained about over heating, but that hasn’t been the case for me. Cranking CODM at 120Hz has been a great experience with a lack of heat spots on the display. However, your mileage may vary as for those of you that so not know, there is a thing called the silicon lottery.

Camera is workable, but not something a photographer would use, initial impressions are sad… 108mp is just a number, and the photos look very grainy under artificial light, haven’t tested it completely though.

UI is fairly customisable, the Xiaomi layout is present, but you can opt for a more conventional layout as well. My personal setting is Nova launcher + gesture navigation, but that is not possible here, so am getting used to the navigation buttons again. Not a huge irritation point, but small things that can make it feel perfect.

Finger print sensor is good, works well out of the box, no issues whatsoever, except that sometimes I miss looking at my lockscreen…

IR blaster works but feels a bit weaker than the older Xiaomi smartphones, but that is something that can be affected by the case as well maybe, so i reserve final judgement on that, but the Xiaomi remote app has become much better, supporting more devices. Still, i use Sure because it’s the best.

Speakers are very nice, much better than any single speaker setup and very loud and clear. While it doesn’t have an audio jack, sound quality off the USB C port is pretty ok, leagues better than your typical Xiaomi phone bout 5 years ago. Although, the USB C to Audio Jack adapter in box is a little too thin for my taste.

Overall first impressions a lot more positive than i expected, Xiaomi has ironed out a lot of problems they used to have and small small things here and there make the phone feel fun, like the animation on the battery screen, that responds to you shaking or tilting your phone. I have had buyer’s remorse with other phones i have purchased, not with this one. (Not yet at least)

Edit: 3 months in, not much has changed, camera has aged better, i think a few software tweaks have solved some problems this phone had… For about a month, if you’d go to a place with no signal and then come out, the phone would not detect that and would show no signal even after hours… That problem went away though. If you’re not a photographer and just want a camera that does well enough, this is it. Battery life has been a surprise, it has been improving, and since I don’t game much nowadays, it’s been phenomenal. 17min charge time is also super convenient.

The in box case has already started turning yellow, so that was kinda below average, but eh, don’t really care.

Mobile is good, camera is average. Quick charging is good. But over heating when using multiple apps, Charing and browsing. Otherwise, good mobile to have.

Heating problem is there