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Two years ago, Xiaomi brought the Civi series of mobile phones. Adhering to the three major product concepts of light design, exquisite feel and texture beauty, Xiaomi Civi led Xiaomi to attack the smartphone market segment of selfie and appearance, further expanding Xiaomi's mobile phone product line, while also allowing Xiaomi mobile phones to reach a wider and subdivided consumer population.

After two years, Xiaomi Civi phone has ushered in three-generation product innovation. On May 25, Xiaomi Civi 3 mobile phone was officially released. According to official description, Xiaomi Civi 3 mobile phone has the most confident appearance of Civi series, the most advanced portrait concept, the hardest core performance experience, the most lasting smooth experience, the most comprehensive image configuration and so on. Xiaomi is full of confidence in the new machine.

So what is the experience of Xiaomi Civi 3? What are the differences in image, design and touch to the current smartphone market? Next, CTOnews.com will bring a detailed experience around this new product, let's take a look!

The first part: the appearance design starts from the packaging design, the millet Civi 3 still continues the design language of the predecessors, the white box body is printed with Civi and product model laser words, the big Logo design is quite artistic.

A praiseworthy place is that the millet Civi 3 package comes with a data cable, a 67W quick charge head and a clear water housing. at first, the millet Civi is not equipped with a standard charger.

Back to the phone itself, Xiaomi Civi 3 offers rose purple, mint green, adventure gold and coconut ash, all of which use the "twin two-color" design.

According to official accounts, Xiaomi has worked deeply with WGSN, a global trend forecaster, to work out the twin two-color design, a trend for 2023-24, based on the behavior and preferences of a large number of young users.

"Twin two colors" uses a 50-50 design with the same color system, this kind of half-tone color looks very elegant, fresh and soft, and at the same time, the same color system "collides with the color", which makes the product more "naughty" while keeping elegant. the degree of recognition is directly full.

CTOnews.com got the coconut ash color matching, although not using the "twin two-color" design, but this "neutral gray" is also quite resistant, slightly cold tone, low saturation, grayscale dominant, looks a little "low-key", but not at all calm, very suitable for male users.

After talking about color matching, let's take a look at the ID design.

The image module of the millet Civi 3 is located on the upper left side of the fuselage and uses a three-camera combination. there is a metal dial outside the circular module, which is not only a tribute to the "metal camera ring", but also a reproduction of the triangular scale of the high-end watch.

This iconic metal ring directly refines the entire camera module.

There is also a circular flash under the camera, after all, there is a considerable amount of white space outside the lens, and this circular flash acts as a finishing touch on the entire blank area, looking more layered.

Looking at the details of the design, the millet Civi 3 uses a 2.25mm ultra-narrow middle frame with edges chamfered, and the screen and battery cover are symmetrically distributed.

Of course, the plastic frame is also expected, but the spray layer is very delicate, in fact, for ordinary consumers, do not pay special attention to this point, basically can be ignored.

Go back to the front.

The millet Civi 3 is equipped with a 6.55 "3D flexible AMOLED screen, which supports 120Hz refresh rate, upgrades C6 luminous materials, and can excite up to 1200nit and peak brightness 1500nit.

In terms of color accuracy, it includes JNCD ≈ 0.41 ≈ 0.50. this screen also supports 12 bit color depth, 16,000 automatic brightness adjustment, 1920Hz PWM dimming and so on.

In design, the bending angle of the screen deepens to 59.5 °from 58 °of the previous generation, and the black edge is narrower and more suitable for the palm of the hand. According to official figures, the left and right black edge of Xiaomi Civi 3 is 1.62mm, and the black edge of chin shrinks to 2.4mm.

At the top of the screen, there are two "bionic double shots" composed of "pill punching". Although it is a bit unpleasant, it brings a more powerful pre-imaging ability, which we will talk about later.

Another point that attracts the author most about the design of Xiaomi Civi 3 is its extremely light grip. I dare not say that Xiaomi Civi 3 is the most beautiful phone in Xiaomi at the moment, but it must be the best-looking phone in Xiaomi these days. The last Xiaomi phone that felt so good that the author was amazed was a plain skin version of Xiaomi 12.

Especially when you are used to those easily 200g "fitness equipment", and then use the millet Civi 3, you can even talk about "amazing".

According to the data, the weight of the whole machine of Xiaomi Civi 3 is 173.5g, while the width of the whole machine is only 71.7mm, and the fuselage is relatively slender, coupled with light weight, which is very suitable for one-handed operation.

The second part: the image experience is the front image first. The millet Civi 3 is equipped with a 32MP 78 °camera + 32MP 100 °ultra-wide angle camera, in which the 78 °front lens has an equivalent focal length of about 26mm, has a F2.0 large aperture, uses ALD ultra-low reverse coating, supports AF autofocus, and 2X portrait close-ups. 32MP 100 °ultra-wide angle camera supports AI distortion correction algorithm, multi-person photo AI adjustment and so on.

It is worth mentioning that both front lenses support 4K recording.

On both sides of the two front cameras, between the upper and middle frame and the screen, there are also two multi-color gentle lights, a total of four, the maximum range of color temperature changes can cover the 2000K-6500K.

These four soft lights support brightness adjustment, color temperature adjustment, but also support cycle mode, Xiaomi gives a wealth of custom options.

In addition, Xiaomi Civi 3 has created a "video toolbox" for these four soft lights, which can also be used in scenes such as video calls, Vlog creation, video conferencing, and third-party App.

In the algorithm part, Xiaomi Civi 3 carries the ability of "Xiaomi image brain" and adds a "portrait engine" module, which is divided into two units: qualitative portrait unit and natural environment unit.

Among them, the qualitative portrait unit includes three major technical support: textured three-dimensional shaping, textured skin and textured picture quality enhancement, while the natural environment unit includes natural space understanding and natural light and shadow understanding.

The purpose of all this is to make users more beautiful in the front camera of Xiaomi Civi 3.

It is worth mentioning that in the front portrait style, Xiaomi Civi 3 also provides a "dual-quality portrait" option-fresh, natural, textured film.

Let's take a look at the sample sheet directly:

From top to bottom: 0.6x, 0.8x, 1x, 2x first of all, the two front lenses provided by Xiaomi Civi 3 bring as many as four variable focus lenses of 0.6x, 0.8x, 1x and 2x, even more than the rear lens, further enriching the viewing range of users when taking selfies or taking photos together.

In the front selfie, Xiaomi Civi 3 can truly restore the facial structure, making facial features more three-dimensional, but at the same time retain the texture and details of the skin, not excessive whitening, brightening, looks more natural. And, after choosing the texture film style, it will be more prominent "tone feeling", the contrast is more sharp, the color is low saturation (such as the pine tree behind the portrait).

Front selfie (texture film)

The front portrait mode of the front portrait of Xiaomi Civi 3 is better, such as the above sample, which may be thought by many people to be shot by a rear camera if not emphasized. In the front portrait photos taken by Xiaomi Civi 3, the contours of the characters are naturally matted, especially in the hair areas where it is difficult to deal with, and there is no omission or "one size fits all".

The rear image part. Xiaomi Civi 3 is equipped with Sony IMX800 camera, supports f / 1.77 large aperture + OIS optical anti-shake, and supports 2X lossless zoom. Sony IMX800 is also the lead photo of Xiaomi 13.

The other two lenses are 8MP IMX355, 120 °wide angle, and a 2 million 4cm "tactical" macro.

Let's take a look at the sample sheet:

Main photographer

Main photo 2X

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Ultra-wide angle

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Main photo 2X

Main photo 2X

From the performance of the sample photo during the day and night, the performance of the rear image of Xiaomi Civi 3 still exceeded the author's expectation, at least in the stall of 2499 yuan.

The same Sony IMX800 photo of Xiaomi 13, as well as the decentralization of Xiaomi's image brain, make Xiaomi Civi 3 have outstanding performance in a variety of environments, such as a good snap effect, clicking the shutter is a photo, and there is no obvious lag and stutter in fast continuous shooting, which adds a lot of points to the experience.

Secondly, the 2x performance of the main photo is also very gratifying, the analytical power is good, and the magnification can retain some details. The ultra-wide angle is within the rules, which is basically the normal performance of this price.

At night, the Sony IMX800 seems to have a little room for optimization. In some harsh environments, noise is easy to appear and details are easy to be lost, but if the light is better, the performance is satisfactory.

Part III: performance experience Xiaomi Civi 3 launched Tianji 8200-Ultra chip for the first time in the world. It is said that this chip is a SoC tailored by MediaTek for Xiaomi Civi 3, and the main change is that a large number of imaging functions of Xiaomi's imaging brain have landed on Tianji chip for the first time.

It is understood that more than 30 operators of Xiaomi image brain have achieved comprehensive enhancement and acceleration on Tianji 8200-Ultra, and various capabilities in Xiaomi image brain have been realized on demand, thus achieving excellent image processing effect, excellent performance and power consumption performance. It is worth mentioning that the continuous shooting speed of Xiaomi Civi3 is 23.5% higher than that of the previous generation.

In other aspects, the Tianji 8200-Ultra chip has not changed much, and it is still a TSMC 4nm process. The eight-core CPU architecture consists of a 3.1GHz Cortex-A78 core, three 3.0GHz Cortex-A78 cores and four 2.0GHz Cortex-A55 energy efficiency cores.

Tianji 8200-Ultra provides three storage specifications of 12GB+256GB / 12GB+512GB / 16+1TB, all equipped with UFS3.1 flash memory and LPDDR5 memory, as well as 4500mAh battery, 67W fast second charge. Other aspects include Z-axis linear motor, off-screen fingerprint, NFC, infrared remote control.

Let's take a look at the running performance of an Rabbit (V10 version) directly.

The measured score of Xiaomi Civi 3 was 890000 +, an improvement of more than 300,000 compared with the 540000 + score of the previous generation of products carrying Snapdragon 7. In addition, the storage test also reached the ceiling level of UFS3.1.

It can be said that after Xiaomi Civi 3 is equipped with Tianji 8200-Ultra, its performance is superior, especially compared with the previous generation products, the performance specification of Xiaomi Civi 3 can be said to have come to the flagship echelon.

Therefore, the next game test link, CTOnews.com is also in place, choose the most difficult "original god" game to measure.

In the original God game, CTOnews.com chose the same picture quality standard as the flagship machine: high-end picture quality + 60 frames, dynamic blur off.

The final results show that the average frame rate of Xiaomi Civi 3 "Yuan Shen" game reached 58.6%. The fluctuation of frame rate during the game is not obvious, and there are occasional frame drops in the running chart link, but the whole does not affect the experience, and the stability is relatively high.

The core chart shows that in the "original God" game, the largest core of Tianji 8200-Ultra-3.1 GHz Cortex-A78 mainly sends power, basically maintaining around 90% of the calls throughout the process.

From the actual measurement of the game of "original God", the performance of Xiaomi Civi 3 basically reached the passing line of the current flagship machine, and far exceeded the previous generation of Snapdragon 7. After all, the performance limit of Tianji 8200-Ultra is still relatively high, the flagship machine can play, and Tianji 8200 can play without gnashing its teeth.

Finally, the performance of heat dissipation, such as Xiaomi Civi 3 positioning of lightweight mobile phones, in fact, the advantages in games will not be particularly obvious, such as many tested in the past to the mobile phone, often achieve a light and thin feel, but heat dissipation and temperature control can only be said to be in order.

The temperature control performance of Xiaomi Civi 3 can only be said to be normal. For example, after 30 minutes of "original God", the highest temperature of Xiaomi Civi 3 is about 43 °C, which is normal considering the test environment and such a thin fuselage.

However, the performance tuning of Xiaomi Civi 3 is still quite radical, although the fuselage is hot, but the machine has not reduced the frequency, and has always ensured a stable frame rate output of the game, which is relatively friendly to gamers.

Written at the end: Xiaomi Civi 3 is still a thin, beautiful product, these two points are also the core advantages of Xiaomi Civi series.

Second, Xiaomi Civi 3 also focuses on upgrading its performance this time. Whether it is the first Tianji 8200-Ultra or the storage started by 12+256GB, there are obvious upgrades, not "feverish", but at least one foot has crossed the threshold of the flagship.

More importantly, compared with the products similarly positioned by competitors, Xiaomi Civi 3 also continues Xiaomi's cost-effective advantage. The price from 2499 yuan is basically the "standard version" of similar products of competitors, but the experience it brings is the competitor's "Pro" version, which is very millet.

So, if you like selfie, pursue good-looking design, like frivolous good feel, then Xiaomi Civi 3 is the right choice for you, or change a mobile phone for your mother or sister, within 3K gear, Xiaomi Civi 3 is also worth getting.

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