It's inactive lone 2022, but that's not stopping Android manufacturers from launching their large flagship phones that volition merchantability for the bulk of adjacent year. After Vivo's motorboat past month, the caller OEM to motorboat a telephone with Qualcomm's caller Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC is Xiaomi, simply named Xiaomi 13 and Xiaomi 13 Pro. These 2 models correspond large (6.73-inch) and tiny (6.36-inch) phones with antithetic designs.

The smaller telephone is much absorbing because—hey look, it's an iPhone! Xiaomi is fond of copying Apple, and with the flat-sided perimeter set and quadrate camera block, it's hard to spot the Xiaomi 13 arsenic thing different than an iPhone. It looks overmuch amended than the curved-sided Xiaomi 13 Pro, but that's conscionable due to the fact that the iPhone's level sides besides look good. (I stay shocked that nary Android OEM has copied the dynamic land yet.) The bigger "Pro" exemplary is much of a generic Samsung-style plan with curved surface edges and a beveled ringing astir the phone. The 1 Pro-model plan flourish is swapping retired the solid backmost sheet for ceramic.

Both phones get the caller Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. This is simply a 4 nm spot with an ARM Cortex X3, 2 Cortex A715 CPUs, 2 Cortex A710 CPUs, and 3 Cortex A510 CPUs. Like we talked astir during the chip's launch, this premix of 4 antithetic halfway designs is simply a weird, non-standard layout designed to widen 32-bit enactment for different year. ARM wants to termination 32-bit, but Qualcomm and Android aren't acceptable yet.

As for the different specs, the Pro has a 6.73-inch, 120 Hz, 3200×1440 OLED display, portion the smaller exemplary has a 6.36-inch, 120 Hz, 2400×1080 OLED. Both travel with 8GB oregon 12GB of RAM, and 128GB, 256GB, oregon 512GB of storage. The Pro exemplary has a 4820 mAh artillery and 120 W wired charging, portion the basal exemplary has a 4500 mAh artillery and 67 W charging. Both person 50 W wireless charging, Wi-Fi 6E (not the optional Wi-Fi 7 enactment connected the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, sadly), and IP68 particulate and h2o resistance.

The camera artifact connected some models is fundamentally the aforesaid footprint arsenic an iPhone but successful a cleaner grid layout, with 1 large lens covering each 3 cameras. There is simply a tiny dividing enactment betwixt each lens, which volition hopefully halt the glare you tin get from 1 large continuous portion of glass. The Pro exemplary gets a 50 MP, 1-inch Sony IMX989 arsenic the main sensor, on with a 50 MP wide-angle and a 50 MP telephoto. The non-pro exemplary has a overmuch smaller 1/1.49-inch sensor for the main camera, on with a 10 MP telephoto and 12 MP ultrawide.

These phones volition ne'er deed the US market, but they usually get immoderate benignant of European release. For now, they are successful China starting astatine 3,999 yuan (~$573) for the basal Xiaomi 13 and 4,999 yuan (~$717) for the Pro model.

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