Xiaomi 13 and 13 Pro, (second) official launch date: Sunday in China

A real yellow enveloped the Chinese officialization of Xiaomi 13series (and not only), when the table was already laid. The death of a longtime Communist Party official has evidently ended up paralyzing the tech scene, and it seems to have been Xiaomi who lost the most, which had the first smartphone in the world with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (the 13 Pro) in its barrel and instead saw the primacy slip away from Vivo.

But something seems to be moving again. The insider Abhishek Yadav has published screenshots taken from the Chinese Xiaomi Store app on Twitter from which the new date would emerge. Almost certainly therefore, context in hand, the Xiaomi 13 series will be presented in China on December 11thfrom Sunday. Real news, almost unpublishedthat of formalizing crucial products such as Xiaomi 13 and 13 Pro on a day in which the tech chronicles of the whole world are dozing, but the particular context in which the company found itself make credible a hypothesis that on other occasions we would have judged bizarre.

The Chinese portal of Xiaomi and Weibo profile, the same where the postponement was announced a few days ago, for the moment they are silent, and there is no trace even in Lei Jun’s Weibo. But in case Yadav’s prediction is true, we expect to have updates soon. In the meantime, from December 1st to this part, new rumors have emerged about the two top of the range from Xiaomi who have attempted to “feed” the yearnings of the fans who were set on December 1st.

Just on December 1, Xiaomi itself filled the gap left by the sudden postponement by publishing on Weibo photos taken by 13 and 13 Pro. The most significant are of the latter, which will come with the huge 1-inch Sony IMX989 sensor. In the following days the web gave birth to other information, details on RAM and cuts of memorycome on screens (manufactured by Samsung), size And weight. Here is what emerged in summary.

• display:
  • Xiaomi 13: AMOLED Samsung E6 flat 6.36 inch Full HD + resolution
  • Xiaomi 13 Pro: 6.73-inch Samsung E6 curved AMOLED Quad HD + resolution, 1,920 Hz dimming

• memories:
  • 8GB LPDDR5X RAM (this configuration and later) + 128GB UFS 3.1 storage (this one only)
  • 8+256GB of UFS 4.0 storage (this and later)
  • 12+256GB
  • 12+512GB

• dimensions and weight:
  • Xiaomi 13:
    • sup. glass back: 152.8 x 71.5 x 7.98 mm, 189 grams
    • leather back: 152.8 x 71.5 x 8.1 mm, 185 grams

  • Xiaomi 13Pro:
    • ceramic back: 163 x 74.6 x 8.38 mm, 229 grams
    • leather back: 163 x 74.6 x 8.7 mm, 210 grams.

09/12

The indiscretion of the insider Abhishek Yadav was correct: Xiaomi confirmed a few hours later that the 13 series will be official in China on Sunday 11 December. We don’t remember other smartphones presented on Sunday, but as written a couple of days ago, the context had made the indiscretion credible and now, with the certainty of the date, it makes the company’s unusual choice understandable.

Which he published on Weibo on the occasion several pictures of the two, making its appearance official. It is important that even on the “base” model of entry to the 13 series the rear cameras are signed by Leicaand that the number of sensors, but almost certainly not the type, is the same between the “standard” and the Pro.

On the appearance of Xiaomi 13 there is hardly anything else to discover, the images of Xiaomi 13 Pro instead are less explicit; the company’s intention is clear to postpone Sunday’s launch to find out more.