Xiaomi proclaims 13T Professional with promise of 4 main Android updates

Xiaomi is launching the 13T and 13T Professional immediately, two smartphones that can profit from extra Android upgrades than what it’s supplied beforehand. Each are attributable to obtain 4 main Android updates in addition to 5 years of safety patches, Xiaomi’s communications director, Daniel Desjarlais, announced earlier this month. 

The Xiaomi 13T Professional will begin at £649 (€799, or round $790), whereas the 13T will begin at £549 (€649, or round $669), and each shall be obtainable beginning immediately within the UK. The telephones will primarily be bought in European markets, however based mostly on Xiaomi’s earlier smartphone releases, they’re unlikely to be formally obtainable within the US.

A assist dedication of 4 main Android updates and 5 years of safety patches brings Xiaomi kind of consistent with what Samsung guarantees for its newest Galaxy S23 telephones and is technically higher than the three main Android upgrades Google provides with its newest Pixels. However there’s an necessary caveat with Xiaomi’s 13T collection: they’re delivery with final 12 months’s Android 13 out of the field. So not less than one in every of these Android upgrades goes for use on updating the telephones to this 12 months’s Android 14. 

Like Xiaomi’s earlier telephones, the 13T and 13T Professional as soon as once more characteristic a Leica-branded digital camera system, although there are fewer {hardware} novelties this time round. There’s no one-inch-type sensor like we noticed with the Xiaomi 13 Professional, nor are Xiaomi consumers getting a 200-megapixel sensor this time round. (It’s in all probability for the most effective.) As a substitute, on each telephones, you’re getting 50-megapixel major cameras with a 1/1.28-inch sensor paired with a 50-megapixel telephoto, a 12-megapixel ultrawide, and a 20-megapixel entrance digital camera. 

Internally, the Xiaomi 13T Professional is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 9200 Plus processor, whereas the 13T packs a Dimensity 8200-Extremely. Each have 5,000mAh batteries, however solely the 13T Professional might be fast-charged at as much as 120W for a full cost in as little as 19 minutes. (The non-Professional 13T tops out at 67W.)

Round entrance, each telephones have a 6.67-inch show with a 144Hz refresh price, a peak brightness of two,600 nits (1,200 nits typical), and a decision of 2712 x 1220. They’ve each bought IP68 rankings for mud and water resistance, although solely the 13T Professional helps Wi-Fi 7; the non-Professional 13T is Wi-Fi 6. Each are available in both blue, inexperienced, or black.

The Xiaomi 13T Professional shall be obtainable in a couple of totally different configurations. Its beginning worth will get you 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, however there’s additionally a step-up mannequin with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage and a 3rd with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. The bottom Xiaomi 13T ships with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and there’s additionally one other model obtainable with 12GB of RAM.