Historically, Xiaomi has been a consistent competitor to launch the first Qualcomm silicon phones of the next generation. He took the lead again this year, announcing his Mi 11 series of phones complete with the Snapdragon 888. With this new engine comes a cavalry of other updates.
While some benefits spring from the Snapdragon 888, like Wi-Fi 6, better 5G and more powerful AI processing, others are close by to increase your skills – faster memory in the form of UFS 3.1 storage and dual-channel LPDDR5 RAM and some liquid cooling infrastructure.
The smartphone industry’s giant pumpkin weigh-in contest appears to be in the display department and Xiaomi has contributed its webpage inches to a lot of ostentation: 10-bit AMOLED screen with refresh rate up to 120 Hz, touch sampling up to 480 Hz, maximum brightness of 1,500 nits, contrast measured at 5 million to one and an A + rating from DisplayMate. It is large at 6.81 “in diameter, but tall at a 20: 9 aspect ratio, and culminating in this year’s Gorilla Glass Victus from Corning. The screen is accompanied by stereo speakers with the Harman Kardon brand.
Another spec fight, this one particularly aimed at Chinese OEMs, is with power. The company decided to go with 55W wired charging and 50W wireless charging – this guarantees a zero to full pump cycle in 53 minutes or less – with 10W reverse charging via Qi. Through USB-C, the Mi 11 offers support for Power Delivery as well as Qualcomm-owned Quick Charge 4.
For this phone, Xiaomi is more or less adhering to the Mi 10 camera combination, which includes Samsung’s high-end 108MP HMX sensor (albeit with a slightly slower aperture), a 13MP wide-angle camera and a rated macro camera at 5MP.
The phone comes in three glass finishes and two vegan leather cuts – far from the Moto X days with its vegetable tanned Horween leather, but maybe we and the animals from which we derived the material are better off with it. Speaking of conservation, the company will provide chargers only to customers who purchase the phone with a separate accessory pack (free now, but an extra ~ $ 15 for later purchases), but they will be compact and stylish in gallium nitride warts on the wall .
The base model with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage starts at 3,999 yuan (~ $ 612) with the 12/256 GB configuration going for 4,699 yuan (~ $ 719).