Xiaomi Mi9 price,release date and specifications

Xiaomi Mi9 price,release date and specifications

The phone will be announced at MWC on Sunday 24 February at 10.30am CET, though we expect there might first be a Chinese launch for the phone on Wednesday 20 February.

There will be new colour options alongside the standard black, with iridescent blue and pink versions. A 7nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor with 2.84GHz clock speed and integrated Adreno 640 offers a 45% performance bump and 20% faster graphics rendering.The 6.4in 19:9 display is a Samsung AMOLED panel with 1080p Full-HD+ resolution, 103.8% NTSC wide colour gamut, 600cdm2 brightness, 60000:1 contrast and Gorilla Glass 6. The screen now occupies more of the front of the body with a 90/7% screen-to-body ratio and a smaller chin, reduced by 40% to just 3.6mm.

 An improved ultrasonic proximity sensor is joined by an in-screen ambient light sensor, High brightness mode, Sunlight mode 2.0, Reading mode 2.0 and screen dimming optimization.There's a 5um pixel optical in-screen fingerprint sensor. A customised micro-selfie camera sits in a waterdrop style notch at the top of the display.The dual-lens camera of the Mi 8 has been swapped out for a 48Mp + 16Mp + 12Mp triple-lens camera with a Sapphire glass lens cover and the following specs:

- 48Mp Sony IMX586, 1/2" sensor, 0.8um pixels, f/1.75 aperture, Laser Autofocus, 6P lens, closed-loop monitor, also supports 1.6um 4-in-1 Super Pixels at 12Mp 4x more light than a single pixel.

 An image shared on Weibo by New Technology has revealed the standard Mi 9 will be priced at ¥3499 (~$516 / Rs 36870) while the Mi 9 Explorer Edition will be priced at ¥5999 (~$885/ 61094). It seems the prices leaked are of the top variant as we had earlier reported that the base variant of the Xiaomi Mi 9 featuring 6GB of RAM/128GB of storage may be priced at 2999 Yuan which is approx. Rs 30,480.