It lone took a mates of hours for the archetypal phones with Qualcomm’s caller Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips to spell authoritative successful China. The Xiaomi 18 Pro is the archetypal Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 telephone connected the market, portion the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max claims dibs connected the 8 Elite Extreme variant.
Xiaomi 18 Pro (left) and 18 Pro Max (right)
Outside of the caller flagship chips, the Xiaomi 18 Pro bid brings larger batteries, hardware-level privateness displays, updated telephoto cameras, and they clasp the rear screens from their predecessors.
But Xiaomi is adding other functionality with its caller AI capabilities. Users volition present beryllium capable to make their ain rear-screen mini apps with the assistance of Xiaomi’s Xiao AI assistant. Xiaomi showcased respective examples, which see a reminder app for drinking water, an ovum cooking timer, and a look recommendations mini app.
The rear sheet volition besides let users to make customized AI wallpapers, show widgets and interact with the Xiao AI assistant. And much importantly, it’s a neat viewfinder for the triple rear cameras.
On the taxable of cameras, some phones diagnostic identical triple lens setups. There’s a 23mm equivalent 200MP main shooter (Light Hunter 960) coming successful astatine 1/1.28-inch size. It is joined by a 75mm equivalent 200MP periscope telephoto (1/1.56") with 3.2x optical zoom. The 3rd module is simply a 50MP ultrawide lens covering a 102-degree tract of view.
Moving connected to the main displays, Xiaomi is utilizing LTPO AMOLEDs with 2K solution and a adaptable 1-120Hz refresh complaint connected some models. The 1 connected the 18 Pro present measures 6.4-inches portion the 18 Pro Max is inactive 6.9-inches. Both panels are rated astatine 4,000nits highest brightness and diagnostic Xiaomi Dragon Crystal Glass 3 protection.
Xiaomi implemented hardware-level privateness screens this clip around, which restrict peeping eyes from seeing what’s connected your surface erstwhile looking from an angle. But the implementation connected the Xiaomi 18 Pro bid is much susceptible than the 1 connected Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra, arsenic it allows for location-based triggers and blocks retired notifications, floating windows and split-view app configurations. The diagnostic is besides easy accessible via the dedicated AI fastener connected the left-hand side.
Elsewhere, some phones get humble artillery upgrades implicit their predecessors. The 18 Pro features a 7,000mAh compartment (11% larger) portion the 18 Pro Max packs an 8,500mAh compartment (13% larger). Both phones diagnostic 100W wired, 50W wireless and 27W reverse wireless charging. They besides footwear Xiaomi HyperOS 4 and diagnostic IP69 ingress protection.
Xiaomi 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max artillery capacities
Xiaomi 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max travel successful black, white, pinkish and bluish arsenic standard. There’s a peculiar variation reddish variant which features transparent backmost elements.
Xiaomi 18 Pro bid colour options
Pricing starts astatine CNY 5,999 ($895) for the 18 Pro and CNY 6,999 ($1,045) for the 18 Pro Max successful their 12/256GB configurations.
| 12GB/256GB | CNY 5,999 ($895) | CNY 6,999 ($1,045) |
| 12GB/512GB | CNY 6,999 ($1,045) | CNY 7,999 ($1,193) |
| 16GB/512GB | CNY 7,999 ($1,193) | CNY 8,999 ($1,343) |
| 16GB/1TB | CNY 8,999 ($1,343) | CNY 9,999 ($1,492) |
| 16GB/1TB (Special Edition) | CNY 9,999 ($1,492) | CNY 10,999 ($1,642) |
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