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On August 10 last year, Xiaomi tablet 5 series was released; a year later, on the evening of August 11, Xiaomi added a 12.4inch large screen version for Xiaomi tablet 5 Pro, with a processor of Snapdragon 870, but with a larger screen, bigger battery and more lenses. Can this "enlarged version" continue the high performance-to-price ratio of Xiaomi tablet 5 series, and what changes and updates will it bring?

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Appearance and design last year my colleagues' comments on the workmanship of Xiaomi flat panel 5 Pro are very good, but I think it is a little short of heat. When several competitors launched new tablets one after another, I think the texture of Xiaomi is the most general, especially the frosted plastic rear shell with dark color, very easy to stain fingerprints, giving people the impression that it is not cool enough.

But this time, the texture of Xiaomi tablet 5 Pro 12.4 is much more mature and prettier. Its rear shell has been changed from plastic to metal, and the color of Xiaomi is very advanced this time. The simple silver-white color does not have any gradient or texture, it is easy to see, does not touch fingerprints, and has no plastic feeling.

Due to the replacement of metal material, the rear shell and the middle frame no longer have an obvious sense of fragmentation, but there is no color difference, a very high sense of integration, a very natural transition, and the most important thing is that the sky line at the bottom has also disappeared. Xiaomi skillfully put it under the cover of the lens module, this hidden antenna design can definitely make obsessive-compulsive disorder happy to swear.

Another contribution is the camera. Xiaomi 12's lens gives people the impression that it is no longer just recognition, but also makes rice-style aesthetics. Now, Xiaomi has installed it on a flat plate, and against the larger area and metal fuselage, the lens module has a stronger visual impact, especially the sharp contrast between matte metal and glossy glass, which makes it seem more transparent and smart. It is said that the rear lens is decoration on the flat panel, but what if this "decoration" is really good?

At the other end of the lens module is the uppercase XIAOMI Logo, but this time there are three more metal contacts next to it to connect the exclusive magnetic keyboard cover. The 11-inch metal contact is on the long side of the left side of the plate, which makes it more natural for the new magnetic keyboard cover to switch from bracket form to storage form, and is also a more detailed improvement.

Although 12.4 inches has no advantage over 11 inches in size, thickness and weight, it has a strong sense of weight in the hand, but the feel has really improved, a feeling that can only be felt when you get the real machine. There are four stereo speakers on the left and right sides to support Dolby panoramic sound. I believe the audio-visual experience will also be a major advantage of the Xiaomi tablet 5 Pro 12.4.

However, one surprising change is that the fingerprint recognition function on the power key is gone, but now when you set the unlock password, the system will automatically recommend you to enter face information to unlock it. There are different opinions on the pros and cons of this point. Oh, right. This time the Xiaomi tablet 5 Pro 12.4 comes with a 67W charger and data cable in the package, so there is no need to buy extra, which is good news for new users.

In addition, the Type-C port at the bottom of the Xiaomi flat panel 5 Pro 12.4 has been upgraded to the USB3.2 Gen1 specification to support the transmission rate of up to 5Gbps, and can also support 2K video with the same resolution of HDMI and DP through the transfer line, which is equivalent to a full-function interface, which can be said to have finally made up for a small deficiency.

When it comes to the front, the 12.4-inch screen does look better, and the black edge is not narrow, but at least it is as wide as the four sides, and it can prevent miscontact. What makes people care is that there is a plastic edge around the connection between the screen and the middle frame, which may protect the screen to some extent, but it will have a more or less impact on the feel and texture.

Another hope that Xiaomi can improve is that the curvature of the fillet inside the screen is inconsistent with that of the physical fillet. At present, several mainstream domestic brands have basically achieved the same internal and external fillet, not to mention iPad.

Don't worry about screen quality. Xiaomi 5 Pro 12.4 is equipped with a 2.5K / 120Hz / 16:10 LCD screen with 500nit brightness, P3 wide color range, 1 billion color and HDR10, as well as Dolby horizon, hardware anti-blue light and MEMC dynamic compensation technology, which is as good as last year's 11-inch Xiaomi 5 Pro screen. This is also one of the most important selling points of Xiaomi tablet.

We talked about the machine body and took a look at the newly upgraded magnetic keyboard cover and inspired stylus accessories. First of all, the new magnetic keyboard protection cover provides a white version, and the use of silicone leather material, anti-pollution and corrosion resistance is very strong, use for a long time does not yellowing, cleaning is very convenient, with the white fuselage appearance up at once.

Due to the change of the position of the metal contact, the contact on the keyboard protection cover has been moved to the upper right corner of the adsorption surface, so we should pay a little attention when using it, so as not to scratch the rear shell of the contact.

Xiaomi has fine-tuned the keyboard layout, and the independent ESC key can uncontrol and notify the center, Xiao Ai and other outbound status, or exit the full-screen video, PPT and so on. The Fn key can also be combined with the first row of functional digital keys.

This time the key panel provides two-gear angle adjustment, the suction is very strong, after fixing the angle, touch to operate the tablet or pick up the keyboard to hang in the air, there will be no obvious shaking, very stable, and the disassembly experience is better than the 11-inch one. Keyboard input feel is also much better than before, the keys are not hard and press feedback, which is completely comparable to the keyboard of mainstream notebooks. However, because there is no touchpad, you still need to carry a Bluetooth mouse when you go out.

While the inspiration stylus does not change much, it can be recharged and activate the pop-up window when it is attached to the top and right side of the plate. The two button lengths on time can respectively achieve shorthand and fast screenshot functions, which can be directly used by regular users. It's just that the stylus is still in black. I hope Xiaomi can provide a white version later.

There is no doubt that although it is still the same generation of products, there is no big subversion in the product form, but the Xiaomi 5 Pro 12.4 with new technology and design details has made a lot of progress. It not only provides new choices for users who love big screens, but also raises the grade of the Xiaomi tablet series, which is very important to attract popularity.

System experience there has been a lot of controversy about the MIUI for Pad system since the launch of Xiaomi tablet 5. Last year was the first year that Xiaomi restarted its tablet product line. After a year, can MIUI for Pad become easier to use? After nearly a week of experience, my answer is: you can see what Xiaomi has done for it, and it is really getting better.

This time, the Xiaomi tablet 5 Pro 12.4 shipped with MIUI13.1.2.0 stable version and Android version 12, which does not seem to have changed much, but in fact, Xiaomi has made the underlying optimization of the system for tablet devices this time.

In fact, at this time last year, I made a video complaining about Xiaomi's 5 Pro tablet, and the old fans should still remember it. But there is a good saying, today is different from the past, the MIUI for Pad system progress is very fast, what impresses me most is the animation improvement, after all, has a large high brush screen, which means that any animation on the rough and dropped frames will be magnified.

First of all, the basic desktop sliding, background multitasking switching no matter what the circumstances are no longer intermittent frame drop, the whole operation experience is much smoother.

The animation speed of the notification center and the control center is relatively fast, with less details than before, but the fluency does improve significantly. I think this trade-off is quite reasonable, after all, turning on the shortcut switch and viewing notifications are very short-lived actions, and many times users want to make a quick decision.

The animation of switching multitasking becomes more natural. When entering the multitasking background from the desktop, the desktop element shrinks and fades, the first application card appears, the Dock bar moves down and disappears again, and after letting go, all icons immediately appear in the upper right corner. At the same time, the first application card continues to shrink and quickly move to the upper right corner, and other application cards follow it to fly in quickly from the left, with inertia animation and nonlinear rebound.

When entering the multitasking background from the application interface, the current application will shrink and center, the last application will be linearly pasted from the left side, and after releasing the hand, it is similar to switching multitask animation with the desktop, clearing all icons immediately appears in the upper right corner, the current application zooms out and hangs to the upper right corner, other application cards fly in with inertia animation and nonlinear springback, and finally the bottom Dock bar appears slowly with linear animation. At the same time, the top status bar gradually appears together.

Exit animation is relatively simple and rough, the bottom Dock bar moves down and disappears, clear all icons fade quickly, all cards fly out of the interface quickly to the left, at the same time Dock quickly restore the position, the status bar does not change throughout. Although the animation speed and the order in which visual elements appear can be significantly adjusted, and the application of the small window on the left has also been replaced by Xiao Ai, the effect is very significant, and there will no longer be a fight between the status bar and the suspension layer. in addition to opening some resource-hungry games will also be a little slower, it is difficult to reproduce the previous frame drop problem.

Click the application icon or multi-task card to enter the full screen, exit the application to return to the desktop animation has also been optimized, speed and animation details have not been reduced, but many more applications will not appear flashing screen, frame drop phenomenon.

The overall speed of the rotating screen animation is moderate, the sense of rhythm and animation details are not lost, and the sense of continuity is strong, but the range of action during the change is more obvious, and there is still a distance from the sense of seamless. On the whole, the animation experience of this version of the MIUI for Pad system is much better than my experience of getting a 5-Pro 11-inch millet tablet, and the old rice noodles can be relieved.

In addition to animation, the small window experience of MIUI for Pad also gave me a big surprise. The free window since MIUI12 and the application edge and bubble notification of MIUI13 have greatly improved the interactive playability. On the tablet side, Xiaomi also comes with its own large screen optimization function, that is, multi-level adaptive window scaling applied.

QQ Music's stepless demonstration

Now, under the full-screen application, you can directly shrink the application into a small window mode by dragging your finger inward from the left and right corner at the bottom of the screen and letting go. At this time, two small dots will appear on the left and right sides of the bottom of the application. Press and continue to drag can also continue to change the window size and proportion in a variety of different proportions, the small window will show a Gaussian fuzzy state in the process of dragging, while marking the taskbar, it will directly hide on the edge.

Horizontal full-screen video stepless demonstration

Vertical screen scale App stepless demonstration

After trying several App, it is not difficult to find that Xiaomi currently provides 3 different window sizes and proportions for landscape App, 4 for horizontal full-screen video, and 2 for vertical App, and the smaller the window is, the closer it is to the vertical screen ratio of the phone. Coupled with full screen and edge, it provides five kinds of application foreground status. I have to say that this way of exhaling small windows is so convenient and intuitive that it can give full play to the advantage of large screen parallel multitasking and release more productivity and entertainment potential.

Tencent Video's stepless demonstration

However, there is no doubt that adaptation is a great challenge. First of all, there are some missing frames in the animation, and although the millet music I demonstrated above fits perfectly, like Xiaomi's own video App and Tencent Video, there will be a black edge at the bottom of the small window mode, while bilibili's HD version does not support it, and horizontal mobile games are not supported. Let's give Xiaomi some time, after all, once we have done the adaptation of the commonly used App, this is the magic skill.

Another exclusive feature is the global taskbar + split-screen application group. When you open the application, you will find that there are two translucent small horizontal bars on the left and right sides of the bottom bar. Sliding these two areas will also exhale the Dock bar. At this time, as long as you hold down the Dock bar and drag other applications to the screen, you can also exhale the window, while drag to the edge of the screen to quickly split the screen. When you return to the desktop after split, there will be an extra split-screen combination icon in the Dock bar. Press it for a long time to save to the desktop, and the next time you click on it, you can use it directly, which is tantamount to the reconstruction of split-screen logic.

There is no need for split-screen applications, Xiaomi has also modified the weight this time. For example, I have complained before that Xiaomi tablet 5 Pro supports the original split-screen, but adjusting the split-screen ratio will deform the game picture. This time MIUI directly killed the split-screen support of horizontal full-screen games, did listen to users' voices, and could see that Xiaomi was aware of the limitations of previous operating logic on mobile phones to large-screen devices. Congratulations on the great success of the drastic changes.

Of course, there are some features that are also helpful to improve efficiency. For example, when selecting voice input in note-taking applications, a new meeting mode is added, in which the voice of up to 2-4 people can be distinguished and recorded, which is too convenient for organizing meeting minutes during a meeting.

Many people complain that the rear camera used to scan the code is also useful. When you turn on the camera to select the document mode, you can take pictures of objects with text and extract the text information above. It also provides proofreading and one-click saving to notes. Used to shoot courseware, book pick, take notes are very practical, student party, postgraduate entrance examination party should like it very much.

There is also the MIUI killer video toolbox, which can enhance the picture and sound of the current application without spending a penny, and even listen to songs and music. You know, the video toolbox is not limited to video App and mobile games, and it is big enough to play a lot of coquettish operations.

After an experience, my biggest feeling is that MIUI for Pad did not brush the version number this time, but the degree of completion is several steps higher, smooth, stable, less BUG, and surprising features. I don't know about other products, but the tablet experience is really different.

In terms of configuration and performance hardware, Xiaomi tablet 5 Pro 12.4 is not an iterative upgrade after all, so it is not very different from Xiaomi tablet 5 Pro 11-inch version. The processor is still Snapdragon 870, and the storage specifications are exactly the same. the main difference is that the rear camera is upgraded to a 5000-megapixel JN1 master shot and a 2-megapixel depth-of-field lens combination. The battery is added to 10000mAh, and the USB-C interface specification upgrade mentioned earlier.

An Rabbit simply ran a point, the score of just over 700000 is not very radical in Snapdragon 870. after all, this size of the tablet is not the positioning of e-sports, which is mainly based on large-scale mobile games.

However, we still tested the original god for everyone, and the test route followed the old rules. As shown in the picture, the game time was adjusted to 19:00 exactly from the southern anchor point of Liyue Port to the north, and after passing the northern anchor point, we went all the way to the northwest along the Guandao road on the north side of Tian Heng Mountain, through Dun Yuling, Lingjiguan and Qingxipu, and finally reached the upper layer of the layered rock Juyuan. On the road, there was a strange play and mining. The test takes 20 minutes without operations such as map transfer or opening the settings menu that affect the instantaneous number of frames.

The game picture quality is set to full maximum, dynamic blur is turned off, and the number of frames is changed to 60 frames. Open the game acceleration App, set the original god's GPU to high quality, and select the performance mode in the game toolbar. At 25 degrees at room temperature, the average frame rate is 55.6 frames after the completion of running chart, wild shooting and mining. Except for a misoperation point to the billboard that causes the number of frames to drop to 26 frames, the number of frames in other scenes is basically more than 45 frames. Coupled with the surface temperature below the body temperature, the game experience itself is still good.

However, the current MIUI game center in the advanced settings options, open the expert mode, as long as drag the original view of the screen will be a meal, it should be a problem of optimization.

In my opinion, without high resolution and handle support, mobile games like the original god are obviously not suitable for it, and the operating experience cannot be compared with the mobile phone. On the contrary, card games or visual fiction games, which are relatively simple to operate, are more suitable for such large-screen devices, because they only need to click and slide, even if the game does not need to be in the hand.

Finally, let's talk about battery life and charging. Xiaomi tablet 5 Pro 12.4 this time upgraded to the 10000mAh's super-large battery, which is considered to be a large number of tablet devices. When measured at 60% screen brightness and 50% external volume, an episode of Tencent Video online TV series (45 minutes without skipping the beginning and end of the film) consumes 6% power, and an episode of iqiyi video (45 minutes without skipping the beginning and end of the film) also consumes 10% of the power consumption of the original mobile game for 30 minutes. 1 hour WPS document editing + Xiaomi music listening + Wechat power consumption 9%, one night (9 hours, WiFi + Bluetooth connection) standby power consumption 2%, it can be said that this battery life performance is not heavy use for 2-3 days is not a problem, even after TV series and games, it is very easy from morning to night.

In terms of charging, due to the use of dual-cell batteries and 67W fast charging, Xiaomi flat panel 5 Pro 12.4 was charged with 24% Magi in the first 10 minutes, 55% in 30 minutes, 70 minutes and 100% in 30 minutes, and the charging speed is no less than that of many mainstream flagship mobile phones.

To sum up, at present, many domestic brands are trumpeting the configuration and performance of tablet products at the press conference, but as consumers, we must abandon the theory of parameters, especially in this era when the big screen system is not connected. Even the top students at the top of the pyramid can not convince consumers that the so-called productivity can replace the computer propaganda, so the system experience is the core of our attention.

Xiaomi flat panel 5 Pro 12.4 is a product that abandons parametric theory and focuses on grinding system experience. Coupled with the progress in quality and design, I think this is the strength and product strength that Xiaomi should show. I don't want to praise this product too much, but I believe that a good meal is never too late. As long as Xiaomi puts aside its impetuosity and settles down to polish the system experience, the rise of Xiaomi tablet will not be too far away.

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