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Back in 2015, Xiaomi launched the Mi 4i — a phone specially tailored for the Indian market as denoted by the letter ‘i’ in the moniker?

Building on those innovations, Xiaomi has now launched its first phone of 2022 — the Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge with the key innovation now being the 120W charging.

The Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge is the first phone in India to come with the super-fast 120W charging tech.

Does the Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge deliver on those fronts.

About this review: Xiaomi India sent us the Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge and the device was used for a period of one week before writing this review.

Note: The only differences between the Xiaomi 11i and the Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge are in terms of battery capacity and charging speed.

The Xiaomi 11i ships with a 120W charger in the box that claims to charge the phone completely from 0-100% in 15 minutes.

I charged the phone from 2-100% a total of 6 times during my usage and found that the average time taken to completely charge the phone was about 20 minutes.

The average time taken to completely charge the phone was about 20 minutes.

When your phone is charging this quick, 2-3 minutes here and there don’t really make a difference but I wish the reality was closer to marketing.

Even just 10 minutes with the charger gets you close to 70% charge, which is rather insane — just not as much as Xiaomi is claiming it to be.

Boost Mode allows the phone to charge at the highest wattage while not worrying too much about thermals.

The phone does tend to get warm when charging but it doesn’t get unusually hot.

If you want your phone to charge as fast as possible, you will have to manually turn this setting on.

There are 34 protection features along with TUV Rheinland certification for safe fast charging on the Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge.

Double Overcharge protection and a Real-time temperature monitoring system are some other features that ensure safety when charging the phone even at 120W.

Having a 6.7-inch display means that the Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge is a big phone and when you pair that large form factor with flat edges, it gets slightly uncomfortable to grip.

You will be very content with the display on the Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge regardless of what you’re going to do on the phone.

If I have to give you a gist of my experience using this phone, I’ll just say that this is by far the smoothest Xiaomi phone I’ve used around the ₹25,000 (~$340) price point.

This is by far the smoothest Xiaomi phone I've used around the ₹25,000 price point!

In fact, it has been almost two years since Xiaomi introduced its first phone with a 108MP camera

A higher resolution sensor would have surely helped here but it’s understandable that these are the areas where Xiaomi has cut corners to accommodate the charging tech while maintaining a reasonable price

The standard Xiaomi 11i is ₹2,000 cheaper and comes with a larger 5,160mAh battery but “slower” 67W charging

If you don’t mind charging your phone for an extra 10-15 minutes, that phone makes more sense since I would pick a larger battery over faster charging any day

That’s subjective though, so if you want the fastest charging phone in India right now and don’t mind compromising a little in the camera department, the Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge is the phone to go for

If you’re looking for a more well-rounded phone, I would say the Xiaomi 11 Lite NE 5G is arguably a better pick for a similar price

There's definitely more to the Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge than just the 120W hype

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