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Mi 11 receives price cut after Mi 11 Ultra ahead of looming Xiaomi 12 Ultra launch

Zohaib Ahmed — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:35:42 +0000

The Xiaomi Mi 11 flagship phone now has received a significant price cut in China after the Mi 11 Ultra, hinting even stronger toward a Xiaomi 12 Ultra launch. The discount is limited to the 8+128GB variant of the device and brings down its price from 3,499 Yuan (~$551) to 2,969 Yuan (~$467).

Of course, the reduced pricing is a China-exclusive thing as of now and looks limited to Xiaomi’s official online store.

There’s plenty of evidence pointing toward the Xiaomi 12 Ultra just being around the corner, although Xiaomi has yet to start teasing it, let alone make an official announcement. Most of its specifications have already been leaked and there’s even an alleged poster for the phone doing rounds, although we’d advise to take it with a pinch of salt.

The Xiaomi Mi 11 comes with a 6.81-inch 2K AMOLED display that’s curved from four sides and has a resolution of 3200×1440, a refresh rate of 120Hz, and a touch sampling rate of 480Hz.

Under the hood, there’s the older but still very compelling Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 flagship processor. For photography, you get 108MP primary, 13MP ultrawide, and 5MP telephoto-macro units, with the main camera supporting OIS.

The battery is sized 4,600mAh with support for 55W wired and 50W wireless flash charging.

In addition, while the Mi 11 will likely be first booting into MIUI 12 out of the box, it has already received the Android 12-based MIUI 13 update.

Xiaomi tweaking performance in favor of benchmark apps: Report

Sean — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 07:46:48 +0000

Xiaomi has apparently been tweaking the performance of its smartphones to alter the results on certain benchmarking applications. A new report has found that the company tweaks performance to show better synthetic benchmark results.

Looks like Xiaomi is also making performance decisions based on application identifiers.

— John Poole (@jfpoole) March 27, 2022

The news arrives from a series of tweet from John Poole, who is a developer at GeekBench, a popular benchmarking platform. In the tweets, Poole stated that the Chinese tech giant’s handsets are making performance decisions based on application identifiers. In other words, the performance depends on the type of application being run on the device. Poole was using a Xiaomi 11 and found that the GeekBench scores were different when he ran the regular version of GeekBench and another build of GeekBench that was disguised as Fortnite.

In the single core tests, the device’s scores were around 30 percent lower on the disguised GeekBench version when compared to the regular build. Meanwhile, the multi core tests showcased results that were around 15 percent lower as well. He even shared a comparison between the two tests that is currently listed on the GeekBench website. Notably, this wasn’t the only case of performance being tweaked.

The issue did not affect just the Fortnite build. Apparently, the same performance tweaking can be observed in other games such as Genshin Impact as well. This means that Xiaomi has built identifiers into its devices to boost benchmark scores to showcase its smartphone’s raw performance, but in actual gaming scenarios, this performance is noticeably reduced.

‘Xiaomi 12 is Built with Consumer Feedback in Mind’ – Xiaomi Execs reveals more details

Leo Wong De Quan — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 11:42:23 +0000

With the Xiaomi 12 series launching soon in China on Dec 28, Xiaomi has recently taken to social media in China to hype up and promote its upcoming flagship lineup.

The founder of Xiaomi, Lei Jun, in particular, has been very fond of the standard model of the Xiaomi 12, because it is the first compact flagship that Xiaomi will be releasing to the market in years. Through his Weibo post, he described the compact Xiaomi 12 as “one small size for phone, one giant leap for flagship-kind”, a callback to the famous line during the moon landing: “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”.

Founder of Xiaomi, Lei Jun on Weibo

The reason why Xiaomi wanted to launch a compact flagship this year was that many older Xiaomi users who have not upgraded yet are using compact flagships such as the Mi 9 SE, Mi 8 or even the Mi 6 released back in 2017. Many users cited the reason that they hesitated to upgrade was that the latest flagships from Xiaomi, such as the Mi 11 and Mi 11 Ultra, had screens that were just too big for one-handed use, and were just too big to fit in pockets.

Xiaomi has received much feedback from its users and had done some market research themselves in the industry for the past year. They noticed the lack of compact Android flagships had made many Android users, including Xiaomi users, switch from Android to iPhones, because iPhones come in a more compact and lightweight design, while still being able to retain the important flagship features of the bigger screen Pro Max lineup of iPhones.

Therefore, Xiaomi wants to create the next fully-fledged compact flagship in the Android space, not only for its Xiaomi fans but also as a push for the industry as a whole. In the Weibo post, Lei Jun also notes that despite the Xiaomi 12 being smaller than its predecessor, many of the Xiaomi 12’s features are upgraded and better than the Xiaomi Mi 11.

Xiaomi Mi 11 standard vs Xiaomi 12, Source: Weibo

In the photo, he also confirms that the Xiaomi 12 will be using Gorilla Glass Victus for screen protection, X-linear haptic motor for better haptic feedback, and support for 50W fast wireless charging and 10W reverse wireless charging.