First photos of unboxing Xiaomi 12 Pro and comparison with its predecessor - Xiaomi 11 Pro (5 photos + video)

Immediately after the presentation of the top smartphoneXiaomi 12 Pro from the flagship Xiaomi 12 series bloggers and experts rushed to post on the Internet real photos and videos of the novelty from the Chinese smartphone manufacturer. In the images posted on the Chinese Weibo network, the enthusiast in parallel compared the new flagship with the previous model Xiaomi 11 Pro, which the company proudly calls "the king of Android phones."

The design of both flagships is quite similar, howeverAt first glance, you can see two significant differences, and both of them affect the cameras of the devices. The first difference lies in the placement of the front camera, which in the Xiaomi 11 Pro was located in the upper left corner of the display, and in the new Xiaomi 12 Pro smartphone, it is located in a hole located exactly in the middle of the upper part of the screen.

The second significant difference between the two smartphonesis a completely redesigned main camera unit. The module is placed in Xiaomi 12 Pro in the same way as in Xiaomi 11Pro - on a rectangular protruding platform in the upper left corner of the back surface of the smartphone. This is where the similarities end.

The new smartphone uses the layoutsimilar to the Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro PV module. At the same time, instead of the periscopic telephoto lens with 5x optical zoom used in the Xiaomi 11Pro, the new smartphone uses a telephoto module with 2x zoom.

The reduction in dimensions remains almost imperceptiblethe new model Xiaomi 12 Pro, which is "thinner" by 0.3 mm and lower by 0.7 mm (163.6 mm compared to 164.3 mm). The width of the smartphone body has remained unchanged.