Xiaomi, known for its innumerable number of devices that have often been sifted through and modified, pulled an unexpected twist and actually presented the same devices with the same name in India as the ones launched in China at the end of October. In the meantime, the Redmi Note 12 family has expanded to five members, and among them, the Note 12 5G, Note 12 Pro 5G and Note 12 Pro+ 5G have gone west.
All three models offer a 6.67″ OLED panel with 120 Hz and 1080 x 2400 pixel resolution, but the basic device misses out on 10-bit color depth and official HDR10+ / Dolby Vision support, while leaving a little more coffee on the front. Unfortunately, the Starting with Android 12, the trio offers a version of MIUI 13 equipped with Google Play services, and also shares a 5000 mAh battery. The main differences start with charging: the Note 12 at 33 watts, the 12 Pro at 67 watts, the Pro+ and it can be charged at 120 watts – the 210-watt special edition stayed at home.
The Note 12 offers an 8-megapixel front-facing and a 48-megapixel rear-facing main camera, and ditches the ultra-wide module, replacing it with a redundant depth sensor on the back. Both Pro models are satisfied with an 8-megapixel field ultra-wide camera, they use the 2-megapixel assistant for macro photography. The 50 megapixel and 1/1.56″ Sony IMX766 sensor of the Note 12 Pro also received an excellent optical image stabilizer. The main attraction, however, is the 200 megapixel Samsung ISOCELL HPX sensor of the Pro+, which is 1/1.4″ in size and also optically stabilized.
The basic model is powered by the Snapdragon 4 Gen 1, and the other two by the MediaTek Dimensity 1080, both with 5G data communication and expandable, dual SIM packaging. There is the jack output and, in the case of the two Pros, the stereo sound. The Note 12 5G starts at 4/128 GB in India for 18,000 rupees (81,000 forints), the Pro 5G in the starting configuration of 6/128 costs 25,000 rupees (113,000 forints), while the price of the Pro+ is 8/256 GB in variation 30 thousand rupees (136 thousand forints). When you get here, you can easily add a 20% surcharge, so it is not worth counting on a cheap Redmi Note 12 family. Let’s say the knowledge list is also rich. The European and the domestic start have not been discussed yet.
