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Clone the iPhone? Xiaomi? Never!
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What? No Dynamic Island clone? Come on.
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The again is glass, which is roofed in a gross-sounding “nano pores and skin.” (Presumably it is only a texture below the glass.)
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Some of these holes within the prime edge are for infrared sensors, so this is usually a TV distant with the best app.
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Colors.
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It’s nonetheless solely 2022, however that is not stopping Android producers from launching their huge flagship telephones that can promote for almost all of subsequent yr. After Vivo’s launch final month, the brand new OEM to launch a telephone with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC is Xiaomi, merely named Xiaomi 13 and Xiaomi 13 Pro. These two fashions signify huge (6.73-inch) and small (6.36-inch) telephones with completely different designs.
The smaller telephone is extra attention-grabbing as a result of—hey look, it is an iPhone! Xiaomi is fond of copying Apple, and with the flat-sided perimeter band and sq. digital camera block, it is exhausting to see the Xiaomi 13 as something apart from an iPhone. It seems significantly better than the curved-sided Xiaomi 13 Pro, however that is simply because the iPhone’s flat sides additionally look good. (I stay shocked that no Android OEM has copied the dynamic island but.) The larger “Pro” mannequin is extra of a generic Samsung-style design with curved display edges and a beveled ring across the telephone. The one Pro-model design flourish is swapping out the glass again panel for ceramic.
Both telephones get the brand new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. This is a 4 nm chip with an ARM Cortex X3, two Cortex A715 CPUs, two Cortex A710 CPUs, and three Cortex A510 CPUs. Like we talked about through the chip’s launch, this combine of 4 completely different core designs is a bizarre, non-standard structure designed to increase 32-bit assist for an additional yr. ARM needs to kill 32-bit, however Qualcomm and Android aren’t prepared but.
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OK, sufficient of the iPhone copy (the blue one) this gallery is concerning the Pro mannequin (the inexperienced one), which has curved sides.
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Ewww a curved display.
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Same digital camera bump although.
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We’re suckers for these inner pictures.
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The entrance.
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As for the opposite specs, the Pro has a 6.73-inch, 120 Hz, 3200×1440 OLED show, whereas the smaller mannequin has a 6.36-inch, 120 Hz, 2400×1080 OLED. Both include 8GB or 12GB of RAM, and 128GB, 256GB, or 512GB of storage. The Pro mannequin has a 4820 mAh battery and 120 W wired charging, whereas the bottom mannequin has a 4500 mAh battery and 67 W charging. Both have 50 W wi-fi charging, Wi-Fi 6E (not the optionally available Wi-Fi 7 assist on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, sadly), and IP68 mud and water resistance.
The digital camera block on each fashions is mainly the identical footprint as an iPhone however in a cleaner grid structure, with one huge lens overlaying all three cameras. There is a small dividing line between every lens, which can hopefully cease the glare you may get from one huge steady piece of glass. The Pro mannequin will get a 50 MP, 1-inch Sony IMX989 as the principle sensor, together with a 50 MP wide-angle and a 50 MP telephoto. The non-pro mannequin has a a lot smaller 1/1.49-inch sensor for the principle digital camera, together with a ten MP telephoto and 12 MP ultrawide.
These telephones won’t ever hit the US market, however they normally get some type of European launch. For now, they’re in China beginning at 3,999 yuan (~$573) for the bottom Xiaomi 13 and 4,999 yuan (~$717) for the Pro mannequin.
Listing picture by Xiaomi