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Xiaomi Officially Releases The Xiaomi Mi 8 Smartphone – See Full Specifications And Price

Xiaomi Mi 8 Smartphone
Xiaomi Mi 8 Smartphone

The Xiaomi Mi 8 has now been officialy released, confirming most of the rumors circulating online. This is  Xiaomi‘s latest flagship smartphone and as you should expect ,comes with premium specifications and features.

The device comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC under the hood, dual cameras and dual GPS. It is also the first official Xiaomi phone with a notch on the display that can be hidden with a toggle. The dual-SIM (Nano) Xiaomi Mi 8 runs MIUI 10, and sports a 6.21-inch full-HD+ (1080×2248 pixels) Samsung AMOLED display with an 18.7:9 aspect ratio, 88.5 percent screen-to-body ratio, and support for Always On display.

The smartphone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC with an AnTuTu benchmark score of 301,472. It also comes with 6GB/ 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM, with 8GB RAM exclusive to the Explorer Edition.

Mi 8 Camera Set Up
the Xiaomi Mi 8 comes with a dual camera setup of 12 MP (f/1.8, 1.4µm) + 12 MP (f/2.4, 1.0 µm), the second being a telephoto cam. It brings AI features enhancement for over 200 scenes and does 4-in-1 pixel binning for better low-light shots. The primary sensor is IMX363 by Sony, while the secondary is S5K3M3 by Samsung.

The selfie snapper is 20 MP with f/2.0 aperture and also jumps the AI hype train with AI portrait selfies and AI Beautify.
As for storage, the phone gets 64GB/ 128GB/ 256GB of inbuilt storage.

Connectivity options on the Xiaomi Mi 8 include 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi (dual-band, 2.4GHz and 5GHz), Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, dual-band GPS (with L1/ L5 signal support, said to be the world’s first phone with this feature), and USB Type-C.

Xiaomi Mi 8 Smartphone
Xiaomi Mi 8 Smartphone

Key Specifications of Mi 8

Display: 6.21-inch (2248 × 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 18:7:9 AMOLED display with 600 nits brightness, 60000:1 contrast ratio,  DCI-P3 color gamut

Chipset: 2.8GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 845 64-bit 10nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 630 GPU

Storage: 6GB RAM + 64GB / 128GB  / 256GB (UFS 2.1) storage, 8GB RAM + 256GB (UFS 2.1) storage in Mi 8 Explorer Edition

Operating System: Android 8.1 (Oreo) with MIUI 9, upgradable to MIUI 10

SIM:    Dual SIM (nano + nano)

Camera: 12MP rear camera with 26mm wide-angle lens, 1/2.6″ Sony IMX363 sensor, f/1.8 aperture, 1.4µm pixel size, dual-tone LED flash, 4-axis OIS, Optical zoom, 4K video recording, secondary 12MP rear camera with  Samsung S5K3M3 sensor,  f/2.4 aperture, 1.0µm pixel size, 2X zoom

20MP front-facing camera with real-time AI portraits

Sensor: IR Face unlock  (Mi 8) / 3D Face unlock (Mi 8 Explorer Edition)

Fingerprint sensor (Mi 8) / in-display fingerprint sensor (Mi 8 Explorer Edition)

Dimensions: 154.9×74.8x 7.6 mm; Weight: 175g (Mi 8) ; 177g  (Mi 8 Explorer Edition)

Connectivity: Dual 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11ac dual-band (2×2 MU-MIMO ), Bluetooth 5, Dual-frequency (L1+L5) GPS/GLONASS/Beidou, NFC, USB Type-C

Battery Capacity: 3400mAh battery with Quick Charge 4+ fast charging (Mi 8) / 3000mAh with Quick Charge 4+ fast charging (Mi 8 Explorer Edition).

Price
Mi 8 6GB/64GB $421, 6GB/128GB $468, 6GB/256GB version $512

Mi 8 Explorer edition 8GB/128GB $600

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