Qualcomm has its new SoC top model Snapdragon 888 at the beginning of December introduced – and it was clear early on that Xiaomi would use the SoC for its Mi 11 will use. Now this upper class model has been officially presented in China. Not only does the high-end computing heart of this model stand out positively.

With the Snapdragon 888 Qualcomm promises compared to the Snapdragon 865 in the area of ​​the processor cores a performance plus of 25%, the Adreno 660 GPU should increase performance by 35 % enable. The first Snapdragon 888 smartphones should therefore offer a clear increase in performance. And Xiaomi is of course also raising the Snapdragon with the newly introduced Mi 11 888 particularly stands out with its performance potential. The SoC also supports 5G and WiFi 6. Depending on the variant, the Snapdragon 888 are 8 or 12 GB LPDDR5-RAM put aside. The internal UFS 3.1 storage is either 128 or 256 GB .

Xiaomi is not resting on the Snapdragon 888. The Mi 11 also gets a remarkable display. The AMOLED panel is curved on all four sides. So not only to the left and right like typical curved displays, but also to the top and bottom edge. The big 6, 81 – inch display solves with 3. 200 x 1. 440 pixels and works with up to 120 Hz. It’s HDR 10 + – certified and should achieve a maximum brightness of 1. 500 cd / m². DisplayMate is said to have already rated the display with an A +.

The main camera is a triple solution. Xiaomi combines a 108 MP camera with a 1/1, 33 – inch sensor and aperture f / 1, 85 , a 13 – MP ultra wide-angle camera with 123 Degree of field of view and a 5 MP telephoto macro camera. The main camera can be used in video mode 8K with 24 / 30 fps and 4K with 30 / 60 record fps. The front camera resolves with 20 MP and supports a maximum of videos with 1080 p at up to 60 fps. A 4th 600 mAh battery can be found in the 8 mm slim smartphone. Charging is either with up to 12 W via a USB Type-C cable or wirelessly with up to 50 W. Also reverse wireless charging (with up to 10 W) is supported. No charger is normally included in the scope of delivery. Xiaomi installed two stereo speakers in collaboration with Harman Kardon. The dual SIM smartphone also has both NFC and IR support. The operating system is Android 11. Xiaomi uses its own user interface MIUI 12.

The Wed 11 shows itself regularly with a glass back. Alternatively, there are also artificial leather variants. On the Chinese side, the Mi 11 can already be ordered. The cheapest variant with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of memory should cost 3 999 yuan. Converted to around 500 euros. When and at what price Xiaomi’s new flagship will also come to Europe remains to be seen.