Xiaomi 13 Extremely introduced with quad digicam and Leica-inspired design

Xiaomi has introduced the Xiaomi 13 Extremely, its new super-flagship cellphone with a formidable-looking digicam system.

To date in 2023 we’ve already seen the Xiaomi 13 and the Xiaomi 13 Professional, with the previous among the finest compact telephones in the marketplace and the latter a flagship titan with a formidable 1-inch digicam sensor.

Now the headline act has arrived within the form of the Xiaomi 13 Extremely. The principle attraction here’s a quad-camera system that covers 4 distinct focal lengths.

On high of the 12mm (ultra-wide), 23mm (vast), and 75mm (telephoto) that you simply’ll discover with the Xiaomi 13 Professional, you additionally get a 120mm super-telephoto.

The principle digicam is backed by the identical 1-inch Sony IMX989 picture sensor because the Xiaomi 13 Professional, in addition to the Oppo Discover X6 Professional and the Vivo X90 Professional. Distinctive to the Extremely mannequin, nonetheless, is a brand new bodily two-stop aperture that lets you change between f/1.9 and f/4.0, opening up a spread of recent capturing potentialities. Assume longer exposures in respectable lighting, or just getting extra folks in focus in a single shot.

Quick Shot mode, in the meantime, permits you to begin up the Digital camera app and take an image robotically inside a mere 0.8 seconds. Excellent for these impromptu road pictures conditions.

There are new “Customized photographic types” within the Professional Mode too, which helps you to pre-set issues like distinction, dynamic vary, white steadiness and the like, retaining extra element in comparison with post-processing. It sounds much like Apple’s Photographic Types. You additionally get two new Leica Filters in Leica Sepia and Leica Blue.

Digital camera extras apart, the opposite huge distinction with the Xiaomi 13 Extremely in comparison with its cheaper siblings is its design. Xiaomi has actually leant into the entire Leica M digicam aesthetic, with a big round digicam module, a chunky steel unibody body, and an antibacterial nanotech silicone leather-based rear.

It’s powered by the identical Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor as its brothers, whereas Xiaomi’s Loop LiquidCool warmth dissipation system apparently lets the cellphone file 4K/60fps video and play 3D video games for prolonged durations with out the same old dropped frames.

Whereas the 6.73-inch 3200 x 1440 (WQHD+) AMOLED show seems an terrible lot just like the Xiaomi 13 Professional’s on paper, there are some variations. It has a superior HBM brightness of 1300 nits (vs 1200 nits) and an enormous peak brightness of 2600 nits (vs 1900 nits). The Xiaomi 13 Extremely display can even hit a superior 12-bit color depth, moderately than the Xiaomi 13 Professional’s 10-bit.

The Xiaomi 13 Extremely has a barely bigger 5,000mAh battery than its Professional brother (on 4,820mAh). Apparently, nonetheless, it solely employs 90W wired charging moderately than the Professional’s 120W, leading to a slower 0-100% time of 35 minutes. You get the identical speedy 50W wi-fi charging.

On the charging entrance, Xiaomi has added a brand new Hibernation mode that triggers when the battery drops to 1%. By limiting background actions, it permits the cellphone to stay in stand by for as much as an hour, or to make a 12 minute cellphone name.