A short review of my white Mi 11 Ultra for 3 days so far:

1. Charging - Top up from 10 -100% within 40 minutes which is blazingly fast, and the phone only barely heat up during charging. Anyway, based on my observation on the power meter, 67W only achievable during flat - 30%, afterwards it capped at around 35W until end of charge. Accute Battery reported provisional capacity = 105% of 5000mAh, 5% bonus.
2. Camera - The highest praise feature of the phone. The quality is top notch if your reference is 'phone', but myself as a DSLR enthusiast, it still far off, haha, but nevermind. One biggest drawback that no reviewers had mentioned so far, there is a noticeable shutter lag, i just compare to my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, is like 0.5s kinda delay from press shutter -> photo taken. I have read 1+9 Pro having similar issue, but Mi 11 Ultra is quite obvious to me.
3. Sound - The stereo speaker loud and clear, tuned by Harmon Kardon, to me just a hype rather than any meaningful.
4. Battery life - Battery life is so so, it can last me 24 hours with 10% left, but that is without gaming at all (i'm not mobile gamer anyway), as expected the biggest consumer is the 120Hz screen itself. It drops around 3-4% overnight (6 hours) during sleep, suggesting the idle consumption is quite high due to unknown reason.
5. Thumb print sensor - Occasionally need longer time to unlock although already set 4 group of fingerprint, my Samsung S7E is slightly better in this regards.
6. Face recognition - faster than thumb print, however can't detect when wearing mask, and system not allow to set face recognition photo with mask.
7. MIUI 12 - Smooth and fast with some minor inconsistent, micro stuttering in some menu pages and apps. Being a long time Samsung owner, still need some time to get used with MIUI.
8. Front screen - Haven't tested HDR yet, just normal content. Display colour set to original with default colour temperature. The white balance/colour is very accurate by naked eye and better in this mode as compare to my calibrated monitor. Screen uniformity is excellent without any noticeable colour tint/spot. The edge is curve, but only very slightly compare to my S7E which your hand won't touch it due to thick bezel, so no worry on false touch when holding the phone, definitely no cons to me if compare to my 5 years experience on the S7E.
9. Rear screen - almost no use to me except rear camera selfie. Can be useful to display time and notification if your phone front screen facing down (more stable compare to facing up due to large camera bump).
10. Design - Weight slightly on heavy side, prefer matte chrome bezel rather than gloss bezel which could attract finger print, white ceramic back is immune to finger print. Overall grip is good.
9. Accessories inbox - Nothing except 67W charger + USB-C to 3.5mm converter included, means you still can use your old school audiophile headphone.

Let me know if you have anything would like to know further.

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Apr 27 2021, 12:36 AM

There are few things you can turn off if you want to reduce the power drain during standby

- Raise to wake
- Show fingerprint icon when the screen is off

Both of them make use of gyro sensor polling during screen off which inevitably will increase the drain

MIUI 12.5 now release for China ROM, mine is global rom expected in June perhaps.

You know what, almost a week got the phone, i don't feel the camera is that excellent not until i read this review. Finally i know how to maximise it.
I will usually buy a phone after read a review, but in this case, i just pre-order the 1st batch and i have no regret on that.

Surprisingly gsmarena rated good endurance for 11 Ultra battery life, which i never see in any review so far.
To me not overly bad, but i do expect it better than my S7E given its 5000mAh vs 3600mAh.

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Apr 29 2021, 10:30 PM

The moving object somehow off a bit from the time i press the shutter. Ya, may need to test more on that.

Go to setting -> notifications & control centre -> Status bar. Turn on the 'show carrier name when device is locked'

Maybe then

Honestly why you guys never book during the pre-order in Lazada and Shopee? I booked and got mine rather than play waiting game here.

Don't tell me it finished in few minutes. I booked mine in Shopee @ 12:00 midnight, 120units left, 6am i look at it, still remained 100+ units. No one interested IMO, because of the stingy free gift? i don't give a damn to be honest.

Well, this is my 1st time to spend 4.3k on a phone, and 1st time buy from pre-order. I'm also a person who tends to wait for review before buy anything.

The main reason i do so this time:
1. I have watch quite alot of review from China youtuber, and i don't think the risk is high and most of the review is quite promising.
2. This is the biggest reason i go for it: unknown future supply due to global chip shortage crisis. It means either the stock is limited or the price is going to increase. I'm in that industry and i know how severe the crisis going on now, everything from cars, PC, mobipe phone, home appliances impacted.

So i won't be surprised it didn't release it to the mass market due to reason 2 above. The demand from China alone is overwhelming let alone any stock for global market.

I think gsmarena had mentioned this issue in the review
https://m.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_11_ultra-review-2259p3.php

Anyway, how's the MIUI 12.5?

This post has been edited by coolkwc: May 5 2021, 09:03 PM

Being an EE that work on Li-ion battery management system, I would like to share my view on the 11 Ultra 67W charging.

After almost 2 weeks of usage and battery charging observation through wall plug power meter and accuBattery:

1. The 67W charging is depends on your battery temperature. The temp is obviously capped at 40'c and it will throttle to 45W or 32W charging when reach higher.
2. The 100% full charge voltage is 4.5V reported in AccuBattery which is ridiculously high based on Li-Ion technology. Often charging to 100% is guarantee going to shorten the lifespan very fast. The healthy full charge voltage shouldn't exceed 4 3V for the sake of lifespan which is at approximate 80-85% SoC and Xiaomi exploit the capacity to the max obviously.
3. The charging current is expected at 3 - 4C (4x of capacity) during initial charging which is very high, couple with high temperature (yes, 40'c charging at more than 1C is insane), this will be a killer to the battery lifespan

There is a reason why Xiaomi reduce the insane 120W charging from 10 ultra to 67W for 11 ultra, the wider speculation could be due to short lifespan of the battery and only Xiaomi know that. Try to see any established phone maker like Samsung, Apple why they don't deploy fast charging. Currently only those Chinese brand phone come with ultra fast charging like Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus.

What i practicing so far is charge until 85% max and will charge when only left 30%, always charging from 0-100% is going to reduce the lifespan drastically. Also i charge using my previous QC3.0 samsung charger which only capable of charging @ 14W or 3A max, it took 1 hour to charge from 30 - 85% while keeping the temp at 36'C which is acceptable to me. The 67W quick charge is reserved for urgent top up, otherwise i don need that speed at all.

Anyway u don't need to give a damn on this if you are not intended to keep a same phone for 4-5 years like me.

Yes, there is a reason why some major brand do not opt for such high charging current, there are not dumb. Depends on the design philosophy, u either design it charge blazingly fast but trade off the life span or vice versa. And there are supporters for both end and myself opt for long battery life other than speed.

https://m.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_11_ultra_g...-news-48992.php

Seems like still have a long wait ahead.

Mine is global set, so can't update yet.
What i can confirm is, the lag isn't happen in Pro mode. I yet to really test out the lag is just animation or what, what i felt is real lag.

I didn't get that...

May i know your is Malaysia set?

Weird, how come yours get the MIUi 12.5 where mine still haven until now

Mi 11 Ultra, after 7 minutes of 4k 60fps video shooting




I didn't enconter during gaming, maybe the game isn't CPU intensive.



This post has been edited by coolkwc: May 24 2021, 09:53 PM

You can feel it by just using camera alone.

For those who want absolute colour accuracy, Mi 11/Ultra won't dissappoint you. It virtually better than any consumer monitor/TV that available in tye market, you can even use ur phone as a reference when shopping for monitor/TV. Anyway, the aacuracy is perfect in original colour mode, not auto, please bear in mind.
https://www.displaymate.com/Xiaomi_Mi_11_ShootOut_1V.htm