Xiaomi CC11 Pro Review: specs and features, camera quality test, gaming benchmark, user opinions and photos

Xiaomi CC11 Pro - in pursuit of style

The CC-series of smartphones of the Chinese company Xiaomi has always focused the attention of potential buyers on the beauty of design and sophisticated ergonomics. At the same time, most of the representatives of the line tried to keep up with direct opponents in terms of performance and general functionality. The hero of today's review is fully consistent with the above description and can hope for impressive sales within China.

The appearance of the novelty resembles that of the Mi 11 Lite model due to the familiar compact unit of three cameras and a similar body shape. The glass back panel pleasantly cools the hand, but the tactile sensations from the device are spoiled by the plastic side edging. But the developer decided not to save on the installed AMOLED panel. The display pleases with both thin frames and the quality of the displayed image. A close-to-flagship image is achieved through a combination of a 120 hertz refresh rate, impressive brightness headroom and a resolution of 2400 x 1080 pixels. Of course, the screen wouldn't be as beautiful without a high-quality oleophobic coating and a reasonably accurate fingerprint scanner.

The selection of specifications is great for the mid-high price segment. The newest Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G CPU, 8GB / 12GB of RAM and the Adreno 642 video accelerator are slightly inferior in gaming power to top-end solutions, but they are more stable in terms of heating and throttling, and are also characterized by improved energy efficiency. As a result, even the Genshin Impact obeys the processor with almost maximum graphics presets, and it is possible to play without frequency drops for several hours. The 4150mAh battery does not seem to be capacious, but an economical AMOLED screen and chipset helps to achieve about one and a half days of gadget operation from such a battery. The volume of internal memory varies from 128 to 512GB , expansion with microSD cards is impossible.

64-, 8- and 2-megapixel photo modules led by the Sony IMX686 sensor do an excellent job with daytime shooting, regardless of the number of objects and their dynamics. However, it is more difficult to achieve natural color reproduction with a reasonable amount of noise if the lighting conditions are less than ideal. The reason is the lack of optical stabilization. Other aspects of the current modern Android smartphone in the face of NFC contactless payment and stereo sound are present. There is also an infrared port for controlling household appliances. The proprietary MIUI shell has not disappeared either. The elaboration of the interface in it is amazing, but intrusive recommendations and, in fact, advertising are already capable of disappointing. 5G support is available, but the use of 4G networks in the CIS countries is limited by the lack of FDD-LTE B7. Thus, we have before us a technological and extremely attractive product in all respects, the global version of which we will look forward to.