The Redmi Word 12 Professional+ unveiled in China final October debuted in India in January and launched in Europe this week. We have been utilizing the Redmi Word 12 Professional+ for just a few weeks now, and our detailed overview is across the nook, however we thought we might share a part of our findings concerning the telephone upfront.
Unboxing
Let’s test the Redmi Word 12 Professional+’s retail field first. In India, the smartphone is available in a black-colored field, which features a protecting case, a SIM card ejection software, a USB-C cable, a 120W charger, and the same old paperwork.
As compared, in Europe the Redmi Word 12 Professional+ is available in a white retail bundle, which additionally has the telephone’s image on it. Nevertheless, it is not consultant of the colour mannequin you get contained in the field.
One other distinction between the telephone’s packages in India and Europe is the ability adapter. Each include a 120W charger, however they give the impression of being totally different, with the one bundled with the field in India a bit heavier.
Regardless, we respect Xiaomi bundling a 120W adapter with the bundle. The model instructed us they did not take away the charger from the field as a result of it could have resulted in an incomplete expertise for the person. Moreover, it is the one manner you possibly can reap the benefits of its extremely fast charging out of the field as odds are you do not have such a strong brick at hand.
Design
The Redmi Word 12 Professional+ packs a 6.67″ FullHD+ “Professional AMOLED” show, protected by Gorilla Glass 5. It has 120Hz refresh fee and a peak brightness of 900 nits.
The panel additionally has a punch gap within the middle for the 16MP selfie digicam, however there isn’t any fingerprint scanner beneath because it’s embedded within the energy button.
On the other facet, we’ve got a glass again panel sporting an oblong digicam island housing three cameras and an LED flash. The glass cowl would not really feel low cost, but it surely readily attracted fingerprint smudges, so common wiping is required in case you aren’t utilizing a protecting case and wish to hold its pristine appears.
It is also price mentioning that the protruding digicam island causes the telephone to wobble on flat surfaces, and the bundled case would not actually repair it.
The Redmi Word 12 Professional+ has flat frames, however happily, its rear panel has slender curves across the edges, which makes it simpler to carry than telephones with flat edges. Nevertheless, the Redmi Word 12 Professional+ isn’t any compact telephone, and folks with small arms could discover it troublesome to make use of it with one hand.
The smartphone has a USB-C port on the backside, flanked by a speaker, microphone, and a SIM card slot. Up high, it has a 3.5mm headphone jack, joined by one other speaker, a secondary mic, and an IR blaster.
The Redmi Word 12 Professional+’s left-side body is devoid of any buttons or slots, however on the suitable, we’ve got the amount rocker and energy button. The latter has a fingerprint scanner embedded, which we discovered to be quick and correct throughout our utilization. Nevertheless, we’d have favored to see it include an in-display resolution.
Ports and controls
When requested concerning the rationale behind choosing a side-mounted resolution as a substitute of an under-display one, Xiaomi stated it is as a result of the previous is quicker and performs higher in the long run than the in-display sort. Properly, that does not make a lot sense to us for the reason that Chinese language model has launched smartphones with UD fingerprint readers earlier than, even within the mid-range section.
That stated, on the upside, the side-mounted fingerprint scanner does extra than simply unlock the Redmi Word 12 Professional+. It helps double-tap gestures to allow you to carry out totally different actions, together with taking a screenshot, launching the default digicam app, and opening the management middle.
Show
The Redmi Word 12 Professional+’s 6.67″ Professional AMOLED show has 900 nits peak brightness, 120Hz display screen refresh fee, and as much as 240Hz contact sampling fee. It’s a 10-bit show, which comes with HDR10+ certification and Widevine L1 help, permitting customers to stream 1080p movies on supported OTT apps.
It additionally helps HDR10 and HLG codecs, and for a good higher multimedia expertise, you get Dolby Imaginative and prescient and Dolby Atmos.
The Redmi Word 12 Professional+’s display screen has good haptic suggestions, and the show was sufficiently shiny to learn textual content material underneath direct daylight at max brightness.
It additionally comes with the At all times-On Show characteristic, however that is deceptive because it would not actually hold the display screen all the time on after the telephone is locked, which is what the title implies. The knowledge is proven on the display screen for under about 10 seconds after the telephone is locked or the show is tapped, which is not one thing we see with At all times-On Shows on gadgets from different manufacturers. Xiaomi ought to’ve executed higher with its implementation.
The Redmi Word 12 Professional+ has 60Hz and 120Hz refresh fee choices within the customized refresh fee menu and helps 4 refresh charges in complete – 30Hz, 60Hz, 90Hz, and 120Hz.
On the default setting, the refresh fee is bumped as much as 120Hz for a lot of the system menus and apps if you find yourself interacting with the display screen, aside from YouTube, which stays at 60Hz it doesn’t matter what, whereas Google Pictures stays at 120Hz even if you find yourself taking part in 30fps movies. For Fb and Instagram, the show refreshes at 120Hz while you work together with the display screen and comes right down to 60Hz if you find yourself watching a picture or taking part in a video.
The refresh fee expectedly stays at 60Hz within the 60Hz mode for every thing, whether or not you might be interacting with the display screen or simply taking a look at it, whereas the 120Hz mode is principally simply the default mode.
Speaking about video games, we tried Name of Responsibility Cellular, Lifeless Set off 2, Actual Racing 3, and Sky Pressure Reloaded on the Redmi Word 12 Professional+, and we have been solely capable of play Lifeless Set off 2 and Sky Pressure Reloaded at 120FPS in default and 120Hz modes for the reason that different two remained capped at 60FPS, irrespective of which mode you chose.
It is also price mentioning that at no level did we see the display screen refresh at 30Hz, which it ought to have once we performed some 30FPS movies and have been taking a look at static content material on the display screen, which is bizarre since Xiaomi does promote 30Hz help for the panel. Some optimizations to the HRR implementation could be appreciated.
Software program and Efficiency
The Redmi Word 12 Professional+ is powered by the Dimensity 1080 SoC and comes with as much as 12GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 256GB of UFS 2.2 storage. The one we obtained is the top-end mannequin, and no matter which configuration you go along with, the telephone boots Android 12-based MIUI 13 out of the field. Ours got here with MIUI 13.0.2 International Steady ROM with November 2022 Android safety patch and is at the moment working MIUI 13.0.6 with February 2023 safety patch. The smartphone additionally comes pre-installed with third-party apps, however most of them will be uninstalled in case you want to.
Xiaomi guarantees 4 years of quarterly safety patches and two years of software program updates. If the latter has you considering that your Word 12 Professional+ will obtain updates until Android 15, you might be mistaken, since it should solely get Android 13 and Android 14, as it is a model behind at this level. And seeing how developer previews of Android 14 are already out, the Chinese language telephone maker ought to have launched the steady Android 13 for the Redmi Word 12 Professional+ already.
The software program expertise you get on the Redmi Word 12 Professional+ is just like what you get on different Redmi smartphones working Android 12 and MIUI 13. Nevertheless, there have been just a few bugs that hampered the person expertise, certainly one of them being the telephone’s incapability to stay latched to the 5G community in India. It stored falling again to 4G and solely locked to 5G once more after a restart. Happily, this was fastened with the MIUI 13.0.6 replace.
The general efficiency of the Redmi Word 12 Professional+ was easy and snappy. Nevertheless, we nonetheless have points with LinkedIn and Disney+ Hotstar’s apps. The telephone stutters more often than not when utilizing the previous, and with the latter, it is the telephone’s brightness slider that lags when adjusting the brightness in full-screen mode. We did not have this difficulty with YouTube and Amazon Prime Video.
The Redmi Word 12 Professional+ dealt with the video games we talked about above effectively and remained cool sufficient even after an hour of heavy gaming. Nevertheless, it did get heat shortly on the 5G community when streaming movies in comparison with the 4G community.
Digital camera and Battery
The Redmi Word 12 Professional+ comes with 4 cameras – a 16MP selfie shooter on the entrance, with a 200MP main digicam (ISOCELL HPX) on the rear, joined by 8MP ultrawide and 2MP macro models. The selfie digicam contained in the centered punch gap has f/2.5 aperture and may report movies in as much as 1080p decision at 60FPS.
The 200MP digicam, however, has f/1.7 aperture and OIS for photographs and movies. It may shoot movies in 1080p at as much as 60 FPS and in 4K at 30 FPS. It may additionally seize 10-bit RAW photographs. Nevertheless, the Redmi Word 12 Professional+ would not include the Clone characteristic we have seen on different Redmi smartphones, together with the Redmi K50i, and there is at the moment no indication will probably be added by means of a software program replace since Xiaomi instructed us “it is majorly because of the {hardware} capabilities of the processor.”
The Redmi Word 12 Professional+’s 8MP ultrawide digicam has a 120 FOV and f/2.2 aperture, whereas the 2MP macro digicam has an f/2.4 aperture. We took some photographs from the Redmi Word 12 Professional+ in the course of the day and evening that you could see under since we’re leaving the detailed evaluation for our in-depth overview.
Listed below are some daylight photographs.
12.5MP 12.5MP 50MP 200MP
And listed below are some nighttime photographs.
12.5MP photographs
The Redmi Word 12 Professional+ packs a 4,980mAh battery that helps 120W HyperCharge, which is a primary for a Redmi system. Nevertheless, it would not include 120W charging enabled out of the field. You must flip it on by heading to the telephone’s Settings > Battery > Battery > Increase charging velocity menu. However observe that the telephone will warmth up extra with increase charging enabled.
Our normal battery exams aren’t but full, however anecdotally talking, the smartphone simply lasted us by means of a day on a single cost in 120Hz mode with 5G cell information and Wi-Fi hotspot enabled. The utilization consisted of net shopping, streaming 1080p YouTube movies, utilizing social media apps, and no less than half an hour of taking part in resource-intensive video games. On the 4G community, it had higher endurance.
As soon as the battery is out of juice, you need to use the bundled 120W adapter for charging, marketed to fill the Redmi Word 12 Professional+’s cell from 2% to 100% in 19 minutes with increase charging enabled.
In our testing, the Redmi Word 12 Professional+’s battery went from 1% to 34% in 5 minutes, 50% in 9 minutes, 55% in 10 minutes, 75% in quarter-hour, 91% in 20 minutes, and 100% in 24 minutes.
With increase charging disabled, it went from 1% to 32% in 5 minutes, 50% in 10 minutes, 66% in quarter-hour, 87% in 20 minutes, and 100% in 29 minutes.
We ran these charging exams in India with the 5G cell information turned on and the display screen turned off, and it is for sure that your mileage will seemingly differ relying in your utilization and ambient temperature. Over at our HQ in Europe, the Redmi 12 Professional+ expectedly charged quicker. How briskly? You will discover that out in our in-depth overview.
Conclusion
Xiaomi continues to extend the worth of the Redmi Word lineup with the Redmi Word 12 Professional+, and the corporate instructed us that is as a result of it would not wish to compromise on something simply to maintain the lineup as inexpensive because it was earlier than. In Europe, the Redmi Word 12 Professional+’s base mannequin with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage is priced at 500 ($540/INR44,400), whereas in India, it prices INR29,999 ($365/340).
The Redmi Word 12 Professional+ is called a successor to final 12 months’s Word 11 Professional+. Nevertheless, in India, it really comes to interchange the the Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge for the reason that model will not launch any 12i collection smartphones within the nation to succeed final 12 months’s 11i lineup. So as to add additional confusionthe 11i HyperCharge is named the Word 11 Professional+ in different nations, and there is additionally a Word 11 Professional+ in India, which has totally different specs.
Xiaomi stated beginning with the Redmi Word 12 collection, it goals to streamline the lineup so this is hoping there will not be over a dozen totally different fashions within the Word 12 collection like we had within the Word 11 lineup.
Circling again to the Redmi Word 12 Professional+, we should say it is a good telephone general having a handy guide a rough efficiency, premium design with an IP53 ranking, good battery life, and tremendous quick charging. The smartphone nonetheless runs Android 12, and it was launched with just a few bugs, though a few of them have been squashed with software program updates.
However we’ll have to run the remainder of the exams earlier than we resolve if the Redmi Word 12 Professional+ is definitely worth the premium over its predecessor. Keep tuned for our in-depth overview to seek out that out!
