Introduction

For the last ten years, Xiaomi is launching smartphones with great specs at every price point. For budget and mid-range smartphone seekers, Xiaomi has the redmi and redmi note series. The black shark series by Xiaomi is there to serve smartphone gaming enthusiasts and Xiaomi's very own premium smartphones are launched under its own banner name. Xiaomi's premium range of smartphones is known for its flagship features along with a camera that can outperform any competitor with ease. Xiaomi has recently launched Xiaomi 13 Ultra which is a camera-centric smartphone by the brand as it comes with a large 1-inch camera sensor. Apart from the camera, the smartphone comes with a high-performance snapdragon 8 gen 2 chipset with an LTPO display. Xiaomi 13 Ultra box content can give you a surprise as the smartphone is packed with a 90W fast charger in the box along with a back case and Type to type c charging cable.

Xiaomi 13 Ultra Design

Xiaomi's premium range of smartphones doesn't compromise with the build quality as Xiaomi 13 ultra gets gorilla glass victus protection from the front along with aluminium frame and vegan leather back. Xiaomi 13 ultra dimensions are as follows 163.2 x 74.6 x 9.1 mm and the handset weighs around 227 grams, the smartphone is very thick in design due to the large camera sensor on the back. The smartphone seems pretty solid with a different design language as it comes with a curved display and at the back the circular camera cut-out gives the smartphone a unique look.

Xiaomi 13 Ultra Display - LTPO Magic

Flagship smartphones tend to keep focusing on improving the user experience and the display of a handset is the most important part of innovation. Over the years smartphone brands are trying their best to improve the display of their respective phone. Xiaomi 13 Ultra makes no compromise when it comes to its display as it offers 6.73 inches LTPO Display with 1 Billion colours, 120Hz refresh rate and Dolby Vision support. The display seems very futuristic and capable of competing against the Samsung S23 Ultra display. The resolution of the Xiaomi 13 ultra display is 1440 x 3200 pixels and the peak brightness of 2600 nits which is more than what the iPhone 14 Pro Max has to offer. The Display of the smartphone is curved and body to screen ratio is 89.5% which shows that the smartphone has very less bezels that offer a great viewing experience. As this device comes with an LTPO Display the handset becomes more power efficient as it automatically reduces the frame rate when a high refresh rate is not required. The display offers a great content viewing experience with punchy and right contrast output all thanks to Dolby Vision support.

Xiaomi 13 ultra-performance and os support

Xiaomi 13 Ultra is the most premium smartphone in Xiaomi's lineup as in this handset Xiaomi has packed the most powerful chipset of 2023 for an Android smartphone which is snapdragon 8 Gen 2. The bench score of Xiaomi 13 Ultra is as follows - Single core score - 1990 and Multi score - 5425. This smartphone is a component to handle high graphic games on the highest settings so if you want to game in 60FPS this smartphone will stand by with ease and offer you a great gaming experience without any frame drops. Earlier snapdragon chipsets weren’t able to compete against Bionic chips but the 8Gen 2 has changed the story, still, 8 Gen 2 is not able to beat Bionic A16 but the competition the Qualcomm chip is giving, is very magnificent. There are three different variants of Xiaomi 13 ultra, the first and base model comes with a 12GB of Ram & 256GB storage whereas there are two more models with the same 16GB ram but with different storage space ie 512GB and 1TB. Handset is best for multi-tasking and data transfer as it comes with the latest LPDDR5 Ram and UFS 4.0 storage, which shows Xiaomi has packed everything ‘the best’, but one thing here can be a downgrade in performance - the smartphone OS. The smartphone comes with MiUI14 which is based on Android 13, which means users won’t be getting a clean os experience as Xiaomi Miui is known for its never-ending bugs, but a global unit of Xiaomi 13 ultra can be a game changer for the brand as this is a premium smartphone and xiaomi will not make any mistakes. The problem with Xiaomi phones is updates, in Xiaomi 13 Ultra the smartphone supports 3 years of Android updates with 4 years of security patch updates but generally updates in Xiaomi smartphones are delayed. The story can change as Xiaomi is more focused on its flagship line-up of smartphones and can work on the weak point of the brands. As per the performance is considered this smartphone is a perfect package.

Xiaomi 13 Ultra Camera Performance - The Talk of the Show

Smartphone cameras are evolving day by day and now they have come to a stage where they compete with professional cameras. Xiaomi has been innovating camera technology for a long time and Xiaomi 13 Ultra camera performance depicts this statement. Xiaomi 13 ultra camera is a quad camera setup where all the cameras are 50MP sensors. The main camera is a one-inch 50MP wide sensor with an F1.9 aperture. The large camera sensor helps the smartphone camera to capture more light which results in better low-light photos and more details in daylight shots. The Periscope telephoto lens is also a 50MP sensor with 5X optical Zoom and 50MP telephoto lens with 3.2X Optical zoom serves high-quality close-up shots , all three camera sensors have inbuilt OIS. The fourth camera sensor is a 50MP ultra-wide sensor that is capable of covering a 122-degree wide view with crisp details. The camera performance is unmatchable as it offers a great dynamic range with the right amount of saturation and the edge detection in the portrait shots is remarkable. The main camera can record up to 8K videos at 24 FPS, the video quality is great and stabilized all thanks to the OIS in the camera. The front camera is of 32MP which can record up to 1080P at 60 FPS, the performance of the front camera is quite good but the main highlight is the back camera of the smartphone.

Conclusion

Flagship smartphones are made for those who cannot compromise on any aspect of their handset. The camera, performance, design and os(Operating System) all these things should be top-notch. Xiaomi 13 Ultra is a power-packed camera smartphone that comes with a futuristic quad camera set-up, Snapdragon's latest and most powerful chipset along with premium hardware. Xiaomi 13 Ultra camera performance can easily compete with the market’s best which are iPhone 14 Pro Max and Samsung S23 Ultra. The photo samples of Xiaomi 13 ultra are very impressive and in some aspects, it can outperform its competitors with ease. But we know every smartphone has its Pros and cons, for instance, Xiaomi 13 Ultra comes with Miui which can be a bummer for those who love to have a clean OS experience in their smartphone. Xiaomi 13 Ultra is a perfect smartphone for those who are interested in smartphone photography and who want to explore the power of a camera smartphone.