Weekly ballot: Is the Xiaomi 13 Ultra hot or not?

This week, Xiaomi introduced the highly-anticipated Xiaomi 13 Ultra so now that you have had a while to settle your ideas on it, we need to ask you if it ticks the proper packing containers.

It could also be considerably of a rhetorical query, given the 13 Ultra’s at the moment the hottest telephone in our database. You guys clearly cannot get sufficient of it.

Like each Ultra earlier than it, the 13 Ultra is a standout smartphone and a camera-centric machine. Xiaomi ensured that it might stand above some other telephone in the market, and be head and shoulders over its personal Xiaomi 13 Pro.

Looking at the Xiaomi 13 Ultra subsequent to the 13 Pro side-by-side, there are numerous similarities – the show and chipset are the identical, the main digital camera makes use of the identical sensor, and the Xiaomi 13 Pro even has an edge in charging – 120W vs 90W.

But the Xiaomi 13 Ultra has an even bigger battery, a nicer construct with flat matte sides, and a again panel clad in antibacterial nanotech silicon leather-based. And with regards to cameras, the 13 Ultra goes well past its sibling.

The Xiaomi 13 Ultra seems like its predecessor

That sentiment can also be true for many different telephones on the market. The Xiaomi 13 Ultra could make a very good case as the greatest telephone for picture and video in the world proper now. The solely different machine that has equally spectacular digital camera {hardware} is the Oppo Find X6 Pro, and it is restricted to China. Even ignoring that, we’re undecided the Oppo beats the Xiaomi. This might should be resolved through a very good old school shootout.

For years now we have been asking for a telephone with two telephoto cameras and Xiaomi has delivered. The 13 Ultra added a much-needed 3.2x 75mm midrange zoom to the must-have 5x 120mm digital camera. Even higher, the two have brighter lenses, and we count on higher picture high quality.

But past the {hardware} enhancements Xiaomi made a couple of breakthroughs in software program as nicely. The Xiaomi 13 Ultra can seize UltraRAW DNGs with built-in multi-frame processing and HDR even at the full 50MP decision. Those recordsdata will give budding photographers invaluable management in Lightroom, and Adobe will launch a digital camera profile only for the 13 Ultra quickly.

Then there are the Leica shade modes, the Leica Portrait mode, and an intuitive new Fast Shot mode for road photographers that can allow you to set a spotlight distance after which seize photos in simply 0.8s.

The Xiaomi 13 Ultra is a real photographer’s dream telephone and that is earlier than you think about it has the greatest chipset round, the quickest storage, the most superior show, beautiful construct high quality, and IP68 water and dirt proofing.

The last cherry on the cake is that Xiaomi will launch the 13 Ultra round the world, not like it did with its predecessor. It makes the dialogue of wanting one truly significant.

So let’s have it – is the Xiaomi 13 Ultra going to be your subsequent telephone? Cast your votes.