The more exciting of the two specs-wise, the Xiaomi 12T Pro is the company’s first phone with a 200MP camera. It is built around the Samsung ISOCELL HP1, a 1/1.22” sensor with 0.64µm pixels, that can be binned to 1.28µm (4-in-1) or even 2.56µm (16-in-1) depending on lighting conditions and the user’s intentions.
There is no telephoto lens on board, but
the high resolution sensor natively supports 2x lossless digital zoom. It can
also shoot 8K video and record HDR10+ footage. And it has Optical Image
Stabilization (OIS) for longer exposures in the dark and more stable footage,
plus advanced features like eye-tracking and motion-tracking autofocus. If
you’re buying the 12T Pro for its camera, it’s got to be for the main unit. The
other three on board are not nearly as impressive. We start with the
neighboring 8MP ultrawide with its 1/4” sensor (1/1.12µm pixels) and an f/2.2
120° lens and take a quick glance at the 2MP macro camera. More interesting
things are happening on the front, starting with the 20MP selfie camera
(1/3.47”, 0.8µm, f/2.24 and 78° lens). Also on the front is an in-display
fingerprint reader.
Speaking of the display, it is a 6.67”
AMOLED panel with 1,220 x 2,712px resolution (20:9, 446ppi). It can run at
120Hz or you can let it automatically switch between 30, 60, 90 and 120Hz
modes. It is a 12-bit panel with HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, which promises
color-perfect imagery thanks to in-factory calibration. It has 500 nits typical
brightness (900 nits peak) and is guarded by Gorilla Glass 5.
One thing that this phone shares with the
12S series is the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset, which will continue to offer a
great balance between performance and efficiency even after the
fast-approaching 8 Gen 2 arrives. Xiaomi has significantly beefed up the vapor
chamber - compared to the 11T Pro the new model has a 65% larger VC and 125%
more thermal material (and the 11T Pro had to keep an SD 888 running cool).
Anyway, the 8 Gen 1+ is paired with 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 128GB UFS 3.1 storage
in the base version, but we also get 8/256GB and 12/256GB configurations. The
phone is launching with Android 12 (MIUI 13).
The 12T Pro is powered by a fairly large
5,000mAh battery with 120W fast charging (a power brick is included in the
box). There are quite a few phones that go up to 120W, but most have smaller
batteries – 5,000mAh is enough for up to 13.5 hours of screen-on time and after
that the battery can be back up to 100% in just 19 minutes. A few more things –
the phone has stereo speakers (tuned by Harman Kardon, with Dolby Atmos
support), there is Wi-Fi 6 (ax), Bluetooth 5.2 and NFC (in some regions). This
is a dual-SIM phone with 5G connectivity. The Xiaomi 12T Pro will be available
from October 13 through the official Xiaomi channels. The 8/128GB model will
come with a € 750 price tag, although finding one in a store near you may be a
challenge. At least for Europe the 8/256GB is the most common option (priced
€ 800) and in some countries you can also get the 12/256GB one (for € 850).
