Last year, by releasing the Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro and Mi later than the rest of the manufacturers, the Chinese brand was taking a big risk. But the result was certainly worth the wait. So what awaits Xiaomi in year? Will the Xiaomi Mi 9 and Mi 9 Pro phones take the next step towards the success of their manufacturer? While the information pleases.
Xiaomi Mi 9 release date - when will it be released?
We know for sure that the Xiaomi Mi 9 will be announced on February 20th. There are a couple of days left before this event. The Chinese company has taken a bold move by announcing that the Mi 9 will launch on the same day as the Samsung Galaxy S10. Good luck to them.
This is what everyone has been waiting for, Xiaomi Mi 9 will be announced in China on February 20th! - such a message appeared on the official website of the Xiaomi company.
So when will the Xiaomi Mi 9 be seen outside of China? We'll find out a few days later, on February 24, when, according to the manufacturer, there will be another MWC 2019 launch event.
As for the potential release date in Russia, the Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro and Xiaomi Mi 8 were announced for sale in November 2018. So, although Xiaomi Mi 9 will be announced very soon, sales are probably still far away.
Xiaomi Mi 9 Price - How Much Will It Cost?
Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro cost $ 650 at the start of sales, while Xiaomi Mi 8 cost a little less - $ 600. Admittedly, this isn't much of a difference on two very similar phones.
We are hoping for a similar price for the Xiaomi Mi 9 family. Given the fact that smartphone prices are rising all over the place, we can assume that the Pro model will break through the $ 655 barrier.
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Whatever the final price, this smartphone is unlikely to be considered very expensive. One of the pictures of Mi 9 the company recently signed: "Can you guess the price of this beauty?" In other words, Xiaomi assumes that a new version of the Mi 9 will be available.
Xiaomi Mi 9 - Performance
Product Management Director Donovan Sung recently announced that the Mi 9 will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 processor.
This is a welcome update, as Xiaomi Mi 8 and Mi 8 Pro (and almost every other flagship of 2018) were equipped with Snapdragon 845. If Mi 9 didn't get a new processor, it would be strange.
The new Qualcomm chip uses a smaller, 7nm process technology, which will make it faster and more energy efficient than the previous Snapdragon 845.
Xiaomi Mi 9 - Design and Display
We know when the Xiaomi Mi 9 will be presented, we also know how it will look. This is due to the fact that the engineers of the Chinese company have already published several images of the future phone on their forums and in.
As you can see, the smartphone continues the overall design style of the Xiaomi Mi 8 with a shiny back and a vertical array of cameras. It has something of the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, perhaps thanks to its shiny bluish color.
To create this beautiful and unique color, the designers used holographic laser engraving technology at the nanoscale plus a two-layer nano-coating.
“We used nano-level laser engraving holographic technology + double-layer nano-coating to create this beautiful and unique color,” Xiaomi Senior Vice President Wang Xiang said in a message. In our opinion, this is a more interesting solution than the useless transparent back of the Mi 8 Pro.
As for the front of the phone, a recent tweet from the official Xiaomi account reads: "Beautiful chin # Mi9, now 40% smaller than Mi 8!"
This means that the screen-to-body ratio will be even higher on the Mi 9 than on the Mi 8.
There is no news about the nature of the displays yet, but it is worth noting that the Mi 8 and Mi 8 Pro are equipped with an OLED matrix. We doubt the company will backtrack on this attractive technology.
Xiaomi Mi 9 - camera
As we said, Xiaomi showed the back of the Xiaomi Mi 9. This allowed us to see a new triple camera system.
Rumors of cameras have been around for a long time, so this isn't a big revelation. Xiaomi follows its main competitor in the local market, Huawei, which equipped its own Mate 20 family with three cameras at the end of last year.
The manufacturer also hinted at the capabilities of these three cameras. In an official tweet to confirm its presence at MWC 2019, the company showed the graphics of the triple camera layout with the word “See”, presented in three illustrative fonts. This suggests that one of the rear cameras of the phone will be with a wide-angle sensor.
Xiaomi Mi 9 - Additional Features
A tweet from Xiaomi that revealed the smaller chin of the Mi 9 also revealed another mystery: it looks like the new phone will be equipped with a very fast fingerprint sensor.
Of course, if you were using the Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro, you would know that this is not the first time in the lineup. But does this "tweet" mean that the technology will be used on the simpler Mi 9 already this year? We can only hope so.
