We could really use a reviewer who has the right priorities as a photographer. I'm sick of DXOMARK advising me to buy phones that crank up the noise reduction and sharpening to produce smeared, detail-deprived JPEGs. I did look into the Mi 11 Ultra, and decided against it only because it's not the most elegant implementation of Android, even if the camera is apparently lovely. My solution was to buy a Pixel 6 Pro, and install a modified GCam that — unlike the stock camera app — allows granular control of noise reduction (luma and chroma); sharpening of various sorts; HDR levels; and a bunch of other parameters that I frankly don't understand.
Through experimentation, I've managed to create a camera that shoots JPEGs with sensible sharpening and HDR, and a perfectly acceptable level of analog-like noise that preserves as much detail as the RAW files. The sensor is not quite as large as the Mi 11 Ultra's, but Google's computational approach is state of the art. One drawback: the RAW files are lousy. For some stupid reason the algorithm applies lens correction *twice* in Lightroom or Photoshop, so that complex distortion is reintroduced (and there's no way of shutting this off, or correcting it after the fact). That said, the JPEGs are the best I've experienced on a smartphone. For years I used a modded Pixel 3 XL, also with great results.
I'd be truly interested in your take on the Pixel 6 Pro's video. I'm not qualified to judge it — my work has always been in still photography. From what I can tell, the modded GCam doesn't permit you to alter the video parameters from stock. So it would be nice to know whether you think the phone with stock app holds its own with the other devices out there, in terms of image quality, stabilization, sound quality, etc.
This is a thread over at the XDA forums that discusses this GCam mod in considerable detail:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/modded-gcam.4359015/