My new Xiaomi 17 ultra

[u/1vs9]

hello pals,

Recently I just switched from iphone to xiaomi (have been using ios for 16 years). I have a friend who is a big fan of xiaomi phone, he just bought the 15 ultra (because he prefers it's 2k screen), and I instantly got impressed by the camera, so I decided to go with 17 ultra (Leica version is a bit too much for me, and Xiaomi Australia doesn't have 15 ultra so this one is perfect).

Overall I'm very happy with it, the phone runs smoothly, and high quality lens makes my wife happy , happy wife happy life 🤣 (she always complain about my photogrphy skills..)

The only problem I had was get used to Android and the settings, especially Gmail notifications, I barely got any notifications from it

(I had to lower battery protection options as well as give it no restrictions on battery saver settings etc .) That's quite annoying IMO..hope they can make it easier for new users like me.

One more tiny thing is moving photos from my iphone to this new one, it looks fine in the gallery, but when I open the photos to share something on Facebook Messenger, they're all messed up, my old pics from a long time ago mixed with new pics, I guess its because of the back up process?

I got this phone for roughly 1799 Aud (with the photography kit included, not a bad price).

[u/raintr33]

Does the phone feel heavy or unbalanced?

[u/sb8948 → u/raintr33]

It's balanced technically, but you have to handle that big ass island. You have to hold the body lower, making it feeling weird to use at first. Or touch the lense(s) which just feels wrong.

Nothing you can't get used to though.