The Mi 8 is now officially going to launch next week. Xiaomi has scheduled the Mi 8 launch event for 31st of May. With the confirmation on the upcoming launch, it is now also confirmed that there is no plan for the launch of Mi X7 as the successor to its last year’s Mi 6 – instead, it appears to be skipping an iteration by launching the Mi 8 to celebrate its eighth anniversary in the market. A box package and a screen protector tipping the launch of the smartphone had already surfaced on many of the web portals according to the report.
As confirmed by a teaser of the report, the Xiaomi Mi 8 launch is taking place in Shenzhen, China. Xiaomi Global Executive director Donovan Sung, in a separate tweet on Tuesday, highlighted that the new launch is aimed to mark the company’s eighth anniversary in the market. “To celebrate our 8th year anniversary, we’ll be launching Mi 8 at our annual flagship product launch in Shenzhen on May 31,” Sung tweeted.
Xiaomi already sold tickets for the annual launch event that is also likely to be the place for devices other than the Mi 8, which includes the Mi Band 3 fitness tracker. 5000 people are going to attend that event.
Xiaomi Mi 8 rumoured specifications
According to a report, Xiaomi Mi 8 is going to have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC along with 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of inbuilt onboard storage. The handset is also expected to run Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box and with a fingerprint sensor. An image leaked recently suggested that Xiaomi is also set to include a dedicated camera unit on the front to enable advanced facial recognition that will be in line with Apple’s Face ID that debuted on the iPhone X last year.
