Face Off: Xiaomi is Set to Launch a New Super-Phone to Rival the Samsung Galaxy Note 20

Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro

We have heard a few rumors now that the following Xiaomi phone will probably be a super-premium model of the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro from earlier within the year – and now information from the corporate itself is making that look more and more probably.

Xiaomi has introduced it’s going to be internet hosting an occasion on August 11 to have fun its 10 years of releasing smartphones and says a brand new phone will probably be launched throughout the occasion.

Xiaomi does not say what this new phone is, however our guess that it will be the Mi 10 Pro Plus, primarily based on the aforementioned rumors. Given that this is the corporate’s 10-year birthday party, we would count on any phone it launches to be one thing of a victory lap, and unveiling a brand new mid-range system would not fairly be that.

Super-premium phones

The Xiaomi Mi 10 collection had been the corporate’s first actual premium phones, because it tends to stay to mid-rangers, however in 2020 a couple of corporations have put out what we’ll name ‘super-premium’ phones, with packed specs sheets and excessive costs. These embody the Huawei P40 Pro Plus and Samsung Galaxy S20 Extremely.

So it could be that Xiaomi is readying a brand new top-end phone to compete with these gadgets – and the truth that it introduced its occasion simply hours earlier than the anticipated Samsung Galaxy Note 20 launch could counsel that Xiaomi is throwing down its glove at Samsung, a minimum of.

The occasion appears to be a China-only launch, however on condition that the corporate tends to launch its merchandise in China then carry them to the remainder of the world a couple of months later, we might get to see this new phone elsewhere by the top of the year.

If a brand new Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro Plus is launched on August 11 we’ll you’ll want to carry you the whole lot you want to learn about it – together with a world launch date if one is on the cards. If not, perhaps this new phone will give us hints in regards to the Xiaomi Mi Note 11 coming later within the year.