Today we are talking about Xiaomi’s latest mid-range smartphone, the Xiaomi 14 Civi, which is a rebranded version of the Chinese Civi 4 Pro for India. ‘Civi’ stands for Cinematic Vision, and this phone mainly focuses on camera performance and features.
A quick opening of the phone reveals that it comes in an all-black packaging that includes a 67W charger and data cable along with the phone. You also get a hard clear case and a pre-applied screen protector.
The unit we have is the Shadow Black variant, which has a smooth, frosted glass on the back. The Cruise Blue also has two-tone textured glass, but the Matcha Green variant has a vegan leather back with an inset glass panel, with a unique texture for each unit. The phone feels quite slim in the hand, thanks to the thin metal frame and quad-curved glass on the front and back.
As far as the much-talked-about camera features go, the Xiaomi 14 Civi has triple cameras at the back consisting of a 50MP primary, a 50MP 2x telephoto, and a 12MP ultra-wide. The front has not one but two 32MP cameras, one of which is an ultra-wide. All three rear cameras can record 4K 60fps videos while the front cameras are limited to 4K 30fps.
Here are some samples of the main rear camera.
Main camera samples
The Xiaomi 14 Civi is powered by the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 platform. Our review unit has 12GB of LPDDR5X memory and 512GB of UFS 4.0 storage. The phone sports a 6.55-inch, 2750×1236 resolution 120Hz AMOLED display with 3000 nits of peak brightness and Dolby Vision support.
Finally, it’s the battery. The phone has a 4700mAh unit that supports the aforementioned 67W charging. Xiaomi doesn’t really make any claims about the battery life or charging speed of the device, so it will be interesting to check that out. It’s certainly smaller than the direct competitor OnePlus 12R, which has a 5500mAh unit and even faster 100W charging.
But that’s enough for now. Check back later for the review.
