New Xiaomi phone targets Apple with second screen | Tech News

Hot off the heels of the announcement of Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 flagship smartphone chipset come the primary units to make use of it. But a fast look on the naming scheme and you’ll see from the place these premium Android telephones draw inspiration.

Xiaomi has introduced the Xiaomi 17, Xiaomi 17 Pro and Xiaomi 17 Pro Max for the Chinese market – and the units even carefully resemble Apple’s newest iPhone line up in measurement and weight.

Xiaomi has even admitted publicly that it skipped a 16 collection phone this 12 months so it might succeed the 15 line up with the 17 to match the present iPhone technology’s quantity.

To confuse issues additional, these telephones have been launched in China simply in the future after the Xiaomi 15T and 15T Pro have been unveiled in Munich. If the 17 collection involves Europe although, it most likely received’t be till subsequent 12 months.

One factor that makes the Xiaomi 17 Pro and Pro Max stand out from any of its rivals is the show on the back of each units, nestled inside the equal digital camera bar half that Apple known as the “plateau” in its advertising for its 17 Pro.

The screen on the Xiaomi telephones acts as a digital camera viewfinder for selfies, controls for apps resembling Spotify and to entry widgets. Xiaomi even sells an official case accent that has bodily buttons and turns the telephones into a Game Boy-like video games console.

As properly because the new Qualcomm processor, the handsets get high specs resembling IP69 mud and water resistance, 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch OLED essential screens and massive batteries at 6,300mAh for the Pro and a whopping 7,500mAh within the Pro Max. They can charge at 100W wired and 50W wirelessly.

Camerawise, you get three 50MP lenses on the back, entrance by an f/1.67 essential with f/2.4 ultrawide. Though each have 5x optical zoom lenses, the Pro Max has a barely bigger sensor, giving it the doubtless imaging edge. Even the selfie cameras are 50MP.

If you don’t like the thought of a second screen eating up your (admittedly massive) battery, a common Xiaomi 17 was additionally introduced. It has a 7,000mAh battery although, which is more than the 17 Pro, so may finish up being a true battery winner given it solely has the one 6.3-inch OLED screen.

Its cameras are additionally triple 50MP lenses, however with lesser specs than the Pro fashions, as you may count on. Either method, you received’t be capable of get maintain of any of these Android units except you reside in China.

The Xiaomi 17, 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max go on sale on September 27, for ¥4,499, ¥4,999 and ¥5,999 respectively, which is about £470, £525 and £630 respectively. If the telephones ever come to the UK, count on costs in GBP to be a lot greater than that.