The Xiaomi 13 Professional flagship made a world debut as we speak on the Cell World Congress (MWC) being held in Barcelona. With this machine — which was launched in China in December — the corporate is banking on a 1-inch foremost sensor, Leica lenses, and 120W quick charging to make it a Samsung Galaxy sequence competitor.

With Android gadgets slicing shut to one another in efficiency and show sections, the digicam has been a significant differentiating think about as we speak’s flagships. Xiaomi is utilizing an enormous 1-inch Sony IMX989 50-megapixel sensor with f/1.9 aperture to get one of the best and brightest images in all lighting circumstances. A few cellphone producers together with Xiaomi, Vivo, and Sharp have included this sensor in a number of gadgets. The digicam is able to video recording in 8K decision — 4K decision at 60 fps if recording in Dolby Imaginative and prescient.

There’s additionally a 50-megapixel telephoto digicam with a “floating lens” component, which ends up in a 3.2x lossless zoom. Plus, the machine has one other 50-megapixel sensor in an ultrawide avatar. The 13 Professional has a 32-megapixel entrance digicam with an evening mode and dual-framing (0.8x and 1x) modes.

All this digicam meeting with Leica lenses is positioned in an enormous sq. housing on the again. And whereas we’ve got seen sq. digicam bumps in lots of telephones, this one appears a bit totally different on account of its dimension.

Other than the digicam system, the Xiaomi 13 Professional’s spec sheet is becoming for an Android flagship of 2023. A Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, 6.73-inch WQHD+ AMOLED show with 120Hz refresh charge and 1,900 nits of peak brightness, assist for Dolby Imaginative and prescient, HDR10+, and HLG HDR requirements, 12GB LPDDR5X RAM, and USF 4.0 storage.

Xiaomi’s newest flagship has a 4,820 mAh battery that may very well be charged in minutes by way of a proprietary 120W charger. Nevertheless, these charging bricks are large and ponderous and they don’t seem to be typically simple to hold in a backpack. The machine helps 50W wi-fi charging with suitable charging pucks together with 10W reverse charging in case you rapidly wish to high up the cost your earbuds.

The Xiaomi 13 Professional will likely be obtainable in ceramic white and ceramic black colorways with 256GB and 512GB storage variants. The machine will likely be obtainable in Europe from March 8 with a base worth of €1,200 ($1,373). Together with the brand new flagship, the corporate additionally launched the Xiaomi 13, with a beginning worth of €999 ($1,056) and the Xiaomi 13 Lite with a beginning worth of €499 ($527).

Xiaomi is in a peculiar place globally. The corporate has fallen behind Apple, Oppo, Vivo, and Honor in the home market. India, the place the cellphone maker has dominated the cellphone cargo rating for the previous few years, has conceded the highest place to Samsung within the final quarter. The corporate has additionally confronted challenges within the South Asian nation with the departure of high executives, anti-china sentiment, and tax investigations from regulatory our bodies. Amid all this, Xiaomi is determined to ship successful smartphone.