Xiaomi 14 Ultra Review One Month In | Just Wow

The Xiaomi 14 Ultra is the best camera phone out there when combined with its incredible Photography Kit. Why? It's so intuitive to zoom, grip, shoot and take stunning photos. But it's so much more than an awesome accessory – this Leica phone has four powerful rear cameras, a variable aperture and a 1-inch main sensor. After a month with the phone, while I’m not ready for a long-term style, six-month review, I have been using it as my main phone for four weeks, taken hundreds of photos, played Genshin Impact for hours, and so much more – so I can report back on the wins and the woes of Xiaomi’s incredible Leica camera phone.

00:00 Intro
00:30 Design
02:15 Curved Flat Screen?
03:05 Front Camera Sample
03:20 Screen Quality
04:25 Speakers
04:40 Camera Intro
06:25 Photography Kit
07:10 Photography Review
10:10 Video review
12:20 Performance + No eSIM?
13:15 HyperOS
14:20 Battery Life and Charging
14:45 Verdict

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Finally! A 1-inch sensor phone with variable aperture launching in Europe and the UK, and with a mighty photography kit no less! What do you think, has the Xiaomi 14 Ultra piqued your interest?

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[sv]

I really liked both 14 ultra and x100 pro, both have very distinct characteristic looks in terms of photography . Finally these brands realised there's no point in chasing iPhone/Samsung style photos when they can create their own characteristic look .

[fandcarcontent]

6:10 the zoom is insanely clean wow i am impressed

[victorypigeon]

I've not been the biggest Xiaomi fan recently but the photos look incredible on this. And with the screen being pretty nice as well, it looks awesome overall.

[davegillespie]

Great video....if it's photography you're interested in this may be the phone of the year

[JohnHPettigrewFujishooter]

Awesome review, I was most interested in the camera and photo kit, great job, now if they would sell it in Canada that would be awesome.

[alcibiades]

Hello! Great review! Can you give us videos and bitrates for the video? Especially interested in log!

Hi, which one would you consider "best in class" regarding screen dimming? Honor Magic6 Pro? This phone looks very solid on paper with DC and PWM @ 1920 Hz dimming though.

[WinstoneSmith]

I've heard the 14 Ultra no longer looks natural, but many of your shots look deliciously textured to me! Metal, wooden furniture, skin tones, do not loose their properties to the sharpening or color boosting. Do they?

[m.c.rajkumar]

I watched this video in the new Xiaomi 14 Ultra Reserve Edition from India

This is the first video of my new phone


Only lenses are provided not that battery unit

Hope they sell it separately in India

Good review video
Keep up the good work

[dmitrys]

If you compare this one and xperia 1 vi. Which has more natural photo and video picture? Which one has more pro settings for shooting? And which has better quality image?

[impopet]

Thanks for the review guys. Does it record in constant framerate?

[mohamedwasfy]

Which phone is better between xiaomi 14 ultra and vivo x100 pri and vivo x100 pro please ???

[WinstoneSmith]

A big issue of the 13 Ultra seemed to be bad high volume recording, and filtering of ambient noise (i.e. traffic, beach waves ...) Your video looks just fine but would be nice to test this out.

[rotorfpv]

Can we lock exposure while recording video? Is there hyperlapse option? Or timelapse?

[andreasyiangou]

Great video! If price wasn't an issue, in terms of camera, battery, and UI, which phone would you choose? Xiaomi 14 Ultra or Honor Magic 6 pro?

[Lordoftheflatbush]

Variable aperture is limited from 1.6-4.0 and only on the main lens and only in Pro mode. For the record.
I use the camera now for a few weeks amd can only compare to my iphone 14 pro max. Night mode and video are better on the iphone. Zoom, makro and photo quality are better on the Xiomi. I like to use the photography kit. The battery of the camara and the grip are not great. When the grip battery is empty you cannot use the grip buttons.

[giant]

Does this camera kit cover up the audio inputs ?

[manjunath]

Hi Users, pls let me know how well the phone behave after continuous camera for video recording and photography

[casIIsac]

I have been drooling over this phone from the USA for a while now. Looking to jump over from iPhone, really disappointed with lack of meaningful progress from Apple. I have a Fuji XT-4 I love but just can't bring myself to drag it around with me, and I am constantly disappointed with iPhone 14 Pro shots.

Would you say this realistically can replace a real camera for non-professional applications? I would be looking to buy this and sell both phone and Fuji.