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Purchased from the official dealership and the review is written after 5 months of use.
I had the Poco F5 pro, which is very powerful but has a generally mediocre camera, so I was looking for something affordable with a good camera that wouldn't have a big difference in performance, at least on paper, from the Poco.
I multitask as a person who spends a lot of time outside the office. That is, many simple calls and via WhatsApp, emails from four accounts, videos that are sent to collaborators and/or uploaded to the cloud, browsing, music from Spotify either through the car's Bluetooth or headphones, etc. On social media, just a bit of scrolling through Facebook reels and zero gaming.
So I decided to get it because of the camera and because they didn't have a big difference in Geek Bench scores compared to the Poco F5 pro.
Big mistake.
The phone indeed has an incredible camera for its price, the colors are very vibrant and the detail is like a regular DSLR. Also, the video quality, although nominally up to 4K 30fps, is excellent, especially in conditions with plenty of light and a relatively clear atmosphere.
Otherwise, as a phone, it is far below expectations and full of bugs.
Only with the usage I mentioned earlier, the phone struggles and heats up. When this happens, the apps lag and freeze, and I mean all the apps, including the camera, so its main advantage goes out the window... Due to work, I will need to shoot many consecutive videos which I then edit on the PC. In the last of the consecutive videos, the phone has already heated up and starts to stutter, something I can easily notice when editing them on the PC. When it heats up, even the camera preview freezes!
Now I only use it in performance mode, where the situation improves slightly, but with a disproportionate impact on the battery.
So the battery has nothing to do with the nominal capacity in real conditions, and I know what I'm saying because the Poco had almost the same capacity. With a 50-50 connection of 5G and Wi-Fi, expect about 8%-10% drop per hour in balanced mode and about 10%-12% drop per hour in performance mode with the usage I mentioned earlier. The above with the screen at default, not permanently at maximum resolution.
The Bluetooth will be the reason I return it as defective if no update comes that improves the bugs. After 5 months, the Xiaomi 13t has not managed to communicate properly with the Xiaomi buds 3 pro that I use. About every 20 days, the headphones start stuttering, sudden sound switches from right to left and vice versa, and interference. I uninstall them, reinstall, they work and then the same issues again. In outgoing calls, whether with the headphones or in the car, the ringtone is either barely audible or not at all. Just when you expect to hear the call sound, the person you are calling suddenly answers. A restart fixes it for a while and then the same issues return. As soon as the connection changes from the headphones to the car, while it shows connected to the car, the music plays from the phone's speaker, and the same happens when switching from the car to the headphones. A restart fixes it for a while and then the same issues return. When I listen to music and answer a WhatsApp call, I continue to hear the music with interference simultaneously with the caller. A restart fixes it for a while and then the same issues return. I note that I have done every Bluetooth update I have seen.
I had complaints about bugs and about the Poco, but after the upgrade to HyperOS, everything was fixed.
With the 13T, there has already been a factory reset and three upgrades, the last one to HyperOS 2, but unfortunately, I did not see any improvement.
This phone justifies those who say that if Xiaomi or Poco is not Pro, it's wasted money. Unfortunately.