Xiaomi Released Mi 8 Youth Edition and Many Other Products

Today, Xiaomi held a new product launch conference and announced a few products, just what we had been waiting for and more. Say, there were the Xiaomi Mi 8 Youth Edition and the Xiaomi Mi 8 Screen Fingerprint Screen. Plus, there was the Xiaomi Xiao AI Smart Alarm Clock. But we didn’t know the company will bring the Xiaomi Notebook Youth Edition and the Xiaomi Half In-Ear Type-C Headphones. Let’s get acquainted with them in details.

Probably, the most anticipated product of this event was the Xiaomi Mi 8 Screen Fingerprint version. In comparison to the original model, it supports a pressure sensitive screen fingerprint recognition. As the name suggests, there is a built-in high-sensitivity pressure sensor that gives finger vibration feedback while increasing the unlock rate. At the same time, the Xiaomi Mi 8 Screen Fingerprint Version also comes with the infrared face unlock function. Thus, this phone supports the most innovative unlocking functions available on the market. According to Xiaomi, this set of screen fingerprint modules is better than the Explorer Edition. The unlocking speed is increased by 29% and the unlocking success rate is increased by 8.8%.

The rest of the features remain the same. Thus, the Xiaomi Mi 8 Screen Fingerprint Version comes with a 6.21-inch notch AMOLED screen that has a Full HD+ resolution and is supplied by Samsung. Under the hood, it carries a Snapdragon 845 chip, paired with an LPDDR4X memory and a UFS flash storage. On the back, it sports a dual-camera, using 12MP wide-angle and 12MP telephoto sensors. The former one is the Sony IMX363, which comes with a unit pixel area of 1.4μm and supports dual PD dual-core focus, four-axis optical image stabilization and more. A 20MP camera is placed on the front. Finally, it is equipped with a 3400mAh battery.

More importantly, the Xiaomi Mi 8 Screen Fingerprint Version supports dual-frequency GPS positioning. Through the L1+L5 dual-frequency combination co-location, the problem of inaccurate positioning of single-frequency smartphones can be effectively solved.

At the same time, the company has set a deep cooperation with Unreal Engine for the first time to optimize performance and power consumption while improving the picture quality, compared to the Huawei P20 and its GPU Turbo technology. The heaviest games can be played at continuous 39fps+ rate.

The Xiaomi Mi 8 Screen Fingerprint 6+128GB version is sold at 3199 yuan ($467) and the 8+128GB version costs 3599 yuan ($525). They will go on sale on September 21.

Apart from this awesome smartphone, the Chinese Apple also uncovered the Xiaomi Mi 8 Youth Edition. The latter comes with three highlights of a more trendy appearance, a close-to-flagship configuration, and a higher price-/performance ratio.

Not in vain, the company compared this handset with the Apple iPhone XR. The latter has a 35.2mm bangs area, while the Xiaomi Mi 8 Youth Edition’s notch part is 19.4mm. At the same time, the frame is narrower, only 1.95mm, and the body is slimmer, 7.5mm.

However, the selling point of the Xiaomi Mi 8 Youth Edition is going to be the mirror glass back, which has been used in a Mi phone for the first time. Its design is inspired by the works of an impressionist, Claude Monet. There are three color options of dream blue, twilight gold, and deep gray (monotone). The Mi 8 Lite uses the same vacuum nano-sputtering process as the flagship phones such as the Huawei P20. It produces a mirror effect on the glass.

Another selling point of the Xiaomi Mi 8 Youth Edition is its photographing features. The phone comes with a 24MP Sony IMX576 sensor placed in the front. It supports various AI options such as AI portrait mode, AI scene camera, AI makeup beauty, AI video beauty, and automatic HDR.

As for the rest of core features, we can mention the 6.26-inch full-screen, a Snapdragon 660 AIE processor, 3350mAh battery supporting QC3.0 fast charging, and a 12MP rear camera (1.4μm pixel size, dual-core focus, f/1.9 aperture), which is accompanied by a 5MP secondary sensor. The latter is identical to the original Mi 8. It has a 12-to-0 advantage for the Huawei P20 in the AI scene recognition. Of course, this handset supports Xiao AI voice assistant.

The Xiaomi Mi 8 Youth Edition 4+64GB is priced at 1399 yuan ($204), the 6+64GB costs 1699 yuan ($248), and the 6+128GB is available at 1999 yuan ($291). It will be available for purchase starting September 25.

We haven’t been waiting to see a new laptop at this event. But it happened. The Xiaomi Notebook Youth Edition was announced as well. As the name suggests, it’s the lightened variant of the original Xiaomi Notebook 15.6 with a full-size keyboard. This model costs 4599 yuan ($671) only.

The thickness of the whole machine is 19.9mm. It comes with a white body. There are also an independent digital keypad and dual 3W high-power speakers.

As for the key features, the Xiaomi Notebook Youth Edition is packed with a 15.6-inch 1080P resolution display, an eight-generation Intel Core i5 processor, an 8GB of RAM, an MX110 discrete graphics with a 2GB of video memory, and a 128GB SSD storage, which is accompanied by a 1TB mechanical hard disk.

It adopts a dual-fan cooling system, which uses a built-in dual fan, double air outlet with 2+2 heat pipe layout to ensure long-lasting stable performance. The company has also managed to put a few interfaces on its thin body. They include a three-in-one card reader, USB 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet port, HDMI interface, two USB 3.0 ports, headset jack, etc.

As expected, the Xiaomi Xiao AI Smart Alarm Clock was unleashed at the event as well. It uses a dynamic alarm system and can set 30 alarm settings simultaneously in addition to broadcasting the weather in real time every morning after getting up. However, do not be naïve and think it’s a simple alarm clock. It works more like a ‘Notepad.’ After setting the reminder, it will urge you to complete a task on time. It supports remote control option. So you can customize the reminder content through the Mijia App even if you are not home.

Due to the Xiao AI support, with a single sentence, you can get information on the stock exchange rate, translation, fast calculation, traffic conditions, weather, tail limit, movie entertainment, news information, radio, phone search, and other functions. However, one of the biggest selling points of the Xiaomi Xiao AI Smart Alarm Clock is the ability to control smart home products.

Finally, this smart device is priced at 149 Yuan ($22). It will officially go on sale on September 28.

In the end, the manufacturer released the Xiaomi half in-ear Type-C headphone which swaps the 3.5 mm audio jack for a Type-C jack. It is made of about 1.5 m tough wire made of soft TPE material and weighs 15 grams.

These headphones use a soft and silky material for the utmost comfort while in use. It comes with three buttons on the remote control of the headphones for music control, playback and volume adjustment. Xiaomi says the headphone has the nodding of the Japanese Audio Association, so you can be sure of high-resolution Audio.

Xiaomi half in-ear Type-C headphone is priced at 99 Yuan ($15). The accessory goes on sale from September 20.