Xiaomi 12 officially launches December 28 — and this is the design

A cropped-in official render of the Xiaomi 12 (right) and Xiaomi 12 Pro

(Image credit: Xiaomi)

Update - December 23: Xiaomi's revealed even more than details since we wrote this narrative, giving us the lowdown on the 12 In favou's new-sprung showing .

The Xiaomi 12 is officially just a workweek outside. Well, in China at least.

A proclaimed on the Xiaomi official Weibo page, the Xiaomi 12 series is lot to launch at a Beijing event on Celestial latitude. 28. That means it'll be single of the first phones out with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, the latest flagship-class chipset that will likely appear in many more premium Humanoid phones throughout 2022. Xiaomi had already declared its plan to use the Gen 1 atomic number 14 during Qualcomm's announcement event earlier this month.

A promotional image for the Xiaomi 12 launch on December 28, 2021 — (Trope credit: Xiaomi)

The announcements didn't end with just the event's time and date. Xiaomi also gave us our first official glimpse at the 12 and 12 Pro handsets. The design resembles the Xiaomi 11T series, with a central punch-hole camera and a flat showing.

An official render of the Xiaomi 12 (right) and Xiaomi 12 Pro — (Image credit: Xiaomi)

In a separate post by Lu Weibing, Xiaomi's Chinese group president, information technology was also unconcealed that Xiaomi will launch the 12 series with its MIUI 13 operating arrangement, based on Android 12. This also Marks the 12 series as another kinda early adopter, since most Humanoid smartphone makers have nevertheless to adopt the latest version.

We've seen leaks showing the look of back of the phone and those discussing its practicable 67W charging, which over again, both seem to match those on the Xiaomi 11T. There has been a antimonopoly bit of talk of the telephone's cameras too. We may see multiple 50MP cameras grace the back of unmatchable of the 12 series models, and those cameras May have lenses tuned by photographic camera company Leica.

Spell we will see the first details announced next week, the rest of the world South Korean won't live able to buy the Xiaomi 12 for another a couple of months, perhaps non until March about. Even then, we still don't expect this phone to ever arrive in the U.S. as Xiaomi doesn't currently have a mien in the country, and the current political clime does non seem hospitable for IT either.

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