It's light weight phone plus snapdragon 778G is very much power efficient. He was used to MIUI on Redmi Note 5, that's why maybe he liked a lot(MIUI has evolved a lot over last three years still not optimised for basic usage,on flagship it runs well, can say this after using Mi 11T Pro for two months and 12 Pro for 2 weeks). I don't find any other reason. That phone is excellent for Airtel 4G+. Upto 3CA supported with some bands on 4*4MIMO. So network issues are not present.
I am using RN 10 pro from few months...in my mobile it works properly...
After MIUI 12.5.8 update, it's working superfine. But before that ,battery drain and lag was visible. Also it was not working as smooth as Mi11X. On custom roms,both works fantastic. So can tell confidently that MIUI is still not optimised as Oxygen OS from One Plus 5T era.
I don't like MIUI much even though I have used their every Note phone(along with Poco F1/Poco X3/Poco X3 Pro/Redmi K20 Pro) since Note 3(No note 5,No note 6 Pro, no note 8 Pro). It's not optimised well for their lower end phones. I buy them and wait for a week and flash a custom rom. Use it for a week with that rom,if don't like switch to another one. Generally over the years,I found less bugs on custom roms than MIUI. And performance is top notch on custom roms for what Redmi is offering. Oxygen OS has died so shifted to Moto G40 Fusion and Moto Edge 20 Pro.
Isn't it image stating that Xiaomi 11i Hypercharge ??It's ₹27k bro. It launched 3 days ago.
Regular 11i
