On sale. Xiaomi 12 Lite - a sudden semi-flagship? Or average?

It turns out that a couple of days ago the assortmentXiaomi smartphones have been quietly replenished with the Xiaomi 12 Lite model. Strangely, I don't see it on the official website. What is even stranger, it immediately went on sale in all our major chains. AT
Connected,
M Video,
citylink,
DNS
etc. And it's not a pre-order. All stores in unison say that they have the model in stock. Come buy.

In appearance, Xiaomi 12 Lite is very similar to the devices of last year's twelfth series
(Xiaomi 12, Xiaomi 12X, Xiaomi 12 Pro), butweaker and cheaper. (More precisely, it’s cheaper in official deliveries. So on AliExpress, Xiaomi 12X is now obscenely cheap. Yes, even Xiaomi 12 with its top-end hardware can be found for a little less money).

Let's get acquainted.

The smartphone is positioned as thin, compact andlight. Well… By today's standards. A shovel, but not a very large shovel. 173 grams of weight and only 7.3 mm thick. But with all due respect, I can’t call the screen small. Diagonal 6.55 ″ (104 cm²), resolution 1080 × 2400 (402 ppi), refresh rate increased to 120 Hz. The AMOLED screen and, alas and ah, the fingerprint scanner was hidden under it.

Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G. He formally belongs to the middle class. In fact, it is more than solid, although you really can’t rank it among the flagship ones. AnTuTu will have 500-550 thousand points.

Memory. So far, only one variety is available. 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. There is no support for memory cards.

The battery was sacrificed for size, it is here a little less than the average for the hospital, 4300 mAh. But charging is very fast - 67 W (they promise that the full charge time will be 41 minutes).

Xiaomi promises cool cameras.Although, judging by their characteristics, there is nothing special to boast about. Well, yes. The front has a high resolution, as much as 32 MP. There are three rear cameras, 108 + 8 + 2 MP - the main, wide-angle and macro camera. But there is no optical stabilization. And the sensor of the main camera, apparently, is the average Samsung ISOCELL HM2. (Officially, it is not mentioned anywhere. But the specifications on the store's website indicate a pixel size of 0.7µm. And I do not know of other cameras of this resolution with a similar pixel).

Other. There is no standard audio output. There is a sixth Wi-Fi, NFC, Type-C and even an IR blaster.

The price, to be honest, does not look humane. ₽40990 ($762) at the start of sales. Looking forward to reviews.

Key features of Xiaomi 12 Lite:

ScreenAMOLED, 6.55″, 1080×2400, 402 ppi, 104 cm², 120 Hz, touch, capacitive, multi-touch, Gorilla Glass 5
IronQualcomm Snapdragon 778G
2.4 GHz, 1 x Kryo 670 (Cortex-A78), 3 x Kryo 670 (Cortex-A78), 4 x Kryo 670 (Cortex-A55), Adreno 642L
Memory: RAM 8 GB, ROM 128 GB, no memory card
Mobile Internet5G
LTE
HSDPA, HSUPA
Edge
Mobile networks5G Bands 1,3,7,8,20,28,38,40,41,77,78
LTE Bands 1,3,7,8,20,28,38,40-42
UMTS Bands 1 (2100), 8 (900)
GSM Bands 2 (1900), 3 (1800), 5 (850), 8 (900)
Li-Pol battery, 4300 mAh, fast charge 67.00 W, full charge in 41 minutes
Dimensions159.3 x 73.7 x 7.3 mm
Weight173 g
Rear Camera: Triple, Flash, Auto Focus

- 108 MP, f/1.8, 0.70μm

- 8 MP, wide-angle, f / 2.2, 119 °

- 2 MP, macro, f / 2.4
front camera: 32 MP, wide-angle, f/2.2, 1/2.80″, no flash, no autofocus
NavigationGPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo
OS Android 12, MIUI
Sensors Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, Approximation, Illumination, Fingerprint scanner (screen), NFC
USBType-C

George Kiselyov