A new leak by Digital Chat Station reveals the color options for the Xiaomi 18. According to it, the device will be available in five color options: Black, White, Pink, Blue, and Red. Moreover, DCS claims that the phone has the same square camera module in the upper left corner as its predecessor.
The leak also covers the chip. The Xiaomi 18 is expected to be among the first phones to use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 platform, built on TSMC’s 2nm process.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 is tipped to have a self-developed Oryon CPU in a 2+3+3 octa-core layout, a shared 16MB L2 cache, and an Adreno 845 GPU. The chip also supports LPDDR5X memory.
What else do we know
As for the camera, the Xiaomi 18 might replace the triple 50MP setup on the Xiaomi 17 with a Leica dual 200MP system — a large main sensor paired with a 200MP periscope telephoto lens. Both the pixel count and telephoto range will reportedly increase compared to the previous generation.
As for the pricing, the Xiaomi 18 might start above 5,499 yuan, more than 1,000 yuan higher than the Xiaomi 17’s 4,499 yuan starting price. Xiaomi Group president Lu Weibing has addressed the pricing pressure directly, pointing to rising memory costs as the main factor. He expects those costs to remain elevated at least through the end of 2027, possibly extending into 2028, suggesting this price increase isn’t limited to the Xiaomi 18 alone.
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