Earlier this week, Xiaomi officially discontinued the Mi 10 Pro in China. Now, a few days later, even the standard Mi 10 is no longer in stock across multiple retail partners in the country. Currently, the company is only selling the base 8GB + 128GB variant on its official website.
Xiaomi launched the Mi 10 and the Mi 10 Pro in February as its flagship smartphones for the first half of 2020 in China. Then, in August, the company unveiled Mi 10 Ultra as the flagship product for the second half of the year on the occasion of its 10th anniversary.
Since the Mi 10 Ultra is a better deal than the Mi 10 Pro at around the same price, the smartphone maker stopped restocking the latter device. And eventually, it even discontinued it a few days back by removing it from its official website.
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Now, similarly, the mid (8GB + 256GB) and the high-end (12GB + 256GB) variants of the regular Mi 10 are no longer in stock across all the official retailers, including JD (Jingdong) and Xiaomi Youpin. However, interested customers can still buy the base 8GB +128GB variant in Twilight Grey from Mi.com. This version of the device currently sells for 3,499 yuan ($529).
We are not sure why Xiaomi has decided not to re-stock the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro. The only possible reason we could think of is that the Mi 10 Ultra offers a better value and there are a couple of Snapdragon 865-equipped phones from Redmi at a cheaper price (Redmi K30 Pro and Redmi K30S Ultra).
Another possible reason is that Xiaomi could be readying to manufacture the Mi 11 series, which is reported to be the first Chinese smartphones to launch with Qualcomm Snapdragon 875 either at the end of January or in February.
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