- 18 Feb 2021
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hi,
three days ago i received my Xiaomi 13 phone.
i believe it is helpful to you to talk about my first impressions.
it's light weight.. on a kitchen scale it weights ~210g with the original case on but it feels way lighter than my previous Mi11Ultra.
i have the white 8gb/256gb version.
yesterday i got one update to MIUI 14.0.13.0 China ROM .
the phone runs smoothly most of the time, i had just a few stutters playing YouTube video but restart the YouTube App fixed it.
the stereo system isn't as good as it is on the Mi11Ultra but it's decent.
As we know the china version of the phone doesn't support band 20, which was a concern for me because i life in a small german town with ~7k people and use o2 network. but it turned out to being not a problem. i have even better signal with the 13. with the Mi11Ultra & pixel 6 pro i can't make calls in the kitchen but the 13 makes it possible now. at the local grocery store i get full 5 bars of 5g cellular signal.
the display is sharp, bright and responsive.
the most positive thing to say is that , so far, the battery is excellent. Because we have ****** weather and winter i am mostly indoors and with WiFi the phone gives me ~10hrs of SOT(100% > 1 %).
(take that with a grain of salt because i experienced in the past that miui got worse over a few weeks.)
right now i am on the second full charge at 5% and SOT is 9h36min.
the camera system is surprisingly good, it's may not on the same sharpness level as the Mi11Ultra and 12SUltra but it's not as disappointing as the 13pro is (as far as i can tell from what i saw on YouTube)
overall i am very happy with the phone and i am partially sad that i didn't pick up the 12gb/512gb version. on the other side i am extremely happy that i decided against the 13pro.
can't wait for the Xiaomi.EU ROM to get rid of all the Chinese things.
i will check the phone out further the next days and upload a video review over at YouTube in german language. i think the 13 is totally underrated and mostly ignored by western YouTubers and there should be more content about it.
i will add the link here when it's online.
so at 02:43H & 4% battery i say good night.
have a nice Sunday and never forget:
Fix the money, fix the world
EDIT: let me add information about the fingerprint reader: it works great. it's better than the one on the Mi11Ultra.
I am on my 4th charge and right now at 80% with SOT of 3h46min, Battery is still great and charges like a dream with the 120/65 watt wireless Xiaomi charger.
EDIT 2: i think Xiaomi did over promised to streamline MIUI 14. to me it looks exactly the same with the same annoyance, like all notifications are shut down by default, after first setup.
three days ago i received my Xiaomi 13 phone.
i believe it is helpful to you to talk about my first impressions.
it's light weight.. on a kitchen scale it weights ~210g with the original case on but it feels way lighter than my previous Mi11Ultra.
i have the white 8gb/256gb version.
yesterday i got one update to MIUI 14.0.13.0 China ROM .
the phone runs smoothly most of the time, i had just a few stutters playing YouTube video but restart the YouTube App fixed it.
the stereo system isn't as good as it is on the Mi11Ultra but it's decent.
As we know the china version of the phone doesn't support band 20, which was a concern for me because i life in a small german town with ~7k people and use o2 network. but it turned out to being not a problem. i have even better signal with the 13. with the Mi11Ultra & pixel 6 pro i can't make calls in the kitchen but the 13 makes it possible now. at the local grocery store i get full 5 bars of 5g cellular signal.
the display is sharp, bright and responsive.
the most positive thing to say is that , so far, the battery is excellent. Because we have ****** weather and winter i am mostly indoors and with WiFi the phone gives me ~10hrs of SOT(100% > 1 %).
(take that with a grain of salt because i experienced in the past that miui got worse over a few weeks.)
right now i am on the second full charge at 5% and SOT is 9h36min.
the camera system is surprisingly good, it's may not on the same sharpness level as the Mi11Ultra and 12SUltra but it's not as disappointing as the 13pro is (as far as i can tell from what i saw on YouTube)
overall i am very happy with the phone and i am partially sad that i didn't pick up the 12gb/512gb version. on the other side i am extremely happy that i decided against the 13pro.
can't wait for the Xiaomi.EU ROM to get rid of all the Chinese things.
i will check the phone out further the next days and upload a video review over at YouTube in german language. i think the 13 is totally underrated and mostly ignored by western YouTubers and there should be more content about it.
i will add the link here when it's online.
so at 02:43H & 4% battery i say good night.
have a nice Sunday and never forget:
Fix the money, fix the world
EDIT: let me add information about the fingerprint reader: it works great. it's better than the one on the Mi11Ultra.
I am on my 4th charge and right now at 80% with SOT of 3h46min, Battery is still great and charges like a dream with the 120/65 watt wireless Xiaomi charger.
EDIT 2: i think Xiaomi did over promised to streamline MIUI 14. to me it looks exactly the same with the same annoyance, like all notifications are shut down by default, after first setup.
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