Here’s what we want to see in the Xiaomi Mi 11 when it launches in early 2021.
Could the Xiaomi Mi 11 end up being one of the biggest smartphones of 2020? Possibly, and it wouldn’t really be a surprise given the company’s meteoric rise in popularity over 2019 and 2020. It’s been a while now since the Xiaomi Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro launched, and the company has moved on from the two flagships to put out other phones like the Black Shark 3, Redmi Note 9S, Poco F2 Pro and Xiaomi Mi 10T. But while Xiaomi has moved on from its early-2020 flagship line, we haven’t – we’ve been using the devices pretty regularly since we got our hands on them, and it’s got us excited for future Mi phones the company might put out. We’re expecting that later in the year we’ll see the Xiaomi Mi Note 11 to follow last year’s fantastic Mi Note 10, a handset with a mid-range price but plenty of top features that not all premium phones even have. After that, we should see the Xiaomi Mi 11 in early 2021 – that will probably be the company’s main device (well, collection of devices, if there’s a Lite and Pro model as well) for the year, with some of its top hardware and software. Until November started we’d barely heard anything about the Xiaomi Mi 11, but it seems some kind of floodgate opened because they’ve started pouring in. Everything we’ve heard so far is detailed below. We’ve also come up with a wish list of features and specs we’d like to see in the phone, which you’ll also find below. We gave both the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro four stars, so Xiaomi has got some room for improvement, especially given the Mi Note 10 got four and a half (and was very, very close to five). Maybe if Xiaomi bears some of this feedback in mind it could make a five-star phone. Latest news: According to a big leaker the Xiaomi Mi 11 will have a screen that curves at all four edges. In addition Xiaomi itself has confirmed the Mi 11 will use the new top-end Snapdragon 888 chipset. We’ve heard one really intriguing Xiaomi Mi 11 release date leak – apparently, the phone might not come in February as we expected, but actually in December 2020. That rumor suggests the phone will come out then to coincide with the launch of the Snapdragon 875 chipset, which will likely be in the Mi 11. That date would also put the phone ahead of its early-2020 competitors like the Oppo Find X3, Samsung Galaxy S21 and Huawei P50. But traditionally around Christmas has been a no-go time for phone launches, as people are saving their money for gift purchases, so it’d be an odd move. The Xiaomi Mi 10’s global launch was in late March, for context. We don’t know a Xiaomi Mi 11 price yet, and it’s hard to guess, because the Mi 9 and Mi 10 were so different in that regard – the former was mid-range but with the Mi 10 line it seemed the company wanted to push into more premium territories.
