Xiaomi has today announced on the Chinese social media platform Weibo that the company will be launching a new fun category tomorrow at 10:00 AM. On its own website, the company teased the new launch saying “I unilaterally announced that this should be my most wanted Christmas gift. See [you] at 10 o’clock tomorrow.”
Going by the teaser, it seems that the company is teasing the launch of Mi Play since this is a new category for the company and the world “Play” resembles fun that the company is teasing.
Rumors suggest that the Mi Play smartphone is the rebranded version of Pocophone F1 for the Chinese market. Earlier, we reported that Xiaomi could hold a launch event for the Mi Pay between December 17 and December 26.
Xiaomi had first launched the Poco F1 in the Indian market in August and was later launched in other markets as Pocophone F1. Recently, the company revealed that it has sold over 700,000 units of the Poco F1 in the past three months.
As for the specifications, the Poco F1 sports a 6.18-inch IPS LCD notched display that produces Full HD+ resolution and a layer of Gorilla Glass for protection from minor scratches. Under the hood, the device is powered by Qualcomm‘s Snapdragon 845 flagship processor and comes with LiquidCool technology.
As for the photography, the device comes with a 12-megapixel Sony IMX363 primary sensor, coupled with a 5-megapixel secondary sensor on the back panel. On the front side, there’s a 20-megapixel selfie camera powered with artificial intelligence for capturing enhanced selfie shots.
The phone comes with 6GB/8GB of RAM and 64GB/128GB/256GB of internal storage, depending on the variant. It runs on the company’s MIUI with Poco Launcher, based on Android 8.1 Oreo operating system and is powered by a 4,000mAh battery that supports Quick Charge 4.0 fast charging technology.
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To know for sure what’s up the company’s sleeves, we’ll have to wait till tomorrow when Xiaomi officially revealed its ‘fun’ product.
