Last week, Xiaomi officially pulled back the curtains on its latest flagship smartphones, the Xiaomi 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, in China. However, what’s quite interesting is that the vanilla model is nowhere to be seen. While the company has been keeping details of the supposed model to itself, a tipster was able to obtain and has disseminated the alleged specifications online.
The tipster in question goes by the name of Bald Panda on Weibo. According to the informant’s post, the Xiaomi 18 will feature a 6.4-inch flat display that has a 1.5K resolution and will make use of the company’s own M11 panel. It is important to note that the latter can also be found on the recently unveiled Pro models.
Though this phone isn’t positioned as the headline product of the series, it will still feature the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 SoC. Unfortunately, Bald Panda did not provide the possible configurations of the device at the time of writing.
He did, however, claim that the Xiaomi 18 will come with a 7,200mAh battery that can support 100W wired and wireless charging. If this is true, this would be quite the deviation when compared to the Pro series.
To refresh your memory, the 18 Pro only comes with a 7,000mAh cell. Furthermore, both the battery on the 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max can support 100W wired and 50W wireless. While the reports did not mention it, the 50W wireless might be a necessary trade-off in order to support Pros’ 27W reverse wireless charging. However, we’d like to stress that that is purely speculation on our part. It’s worth pointing out that we do not know if the vanilla model will also feature the rear display.
As for imaging, the leak says that the Xiaomi 18 will feature three rear cameras. The array of lenses will allegedly consist of a 200MP 1/1.28-inch main sensor, a 50MP ultra-wide lens, and a 200MP telephoto camera with 3x zoom. As for software, the handset is expected to come with Xiaomi’s own HyperOS 4, which is based on Android 17.
In terms of the launch, Bald Panda claims that the device will launch this December, possibly following the staggered launch of the Xiaomi 17 series last year. With all that said, do keep in mind that these details are still not confirmed by the Chinese tech giant at the time of writing. As such, it’s best to take what you’ve read here today with a healthy dose of scepticism.
(Source: Gizmochina)
