Xiaomi has been slated to launch the Pro and Ultra variants of the Mi 11 for quite some time prior to its latest multi-product launch event. However, it has managed to spring more of a surprise on us after all. The OEM asserts that the new 11i retains a lot of its flagship sibling's design language, albeit with tweaks that give it more of a mid-range appeal.
To this end, it still has a 108MP ISOCELL HM2 main sensor, found in a large camera hump dominated by prominent silver rings. The high-end shooter is joined by 8MP ultra-wide and 5MP telemacro cameras in the Mi 11i.
On the other side, the phone rocks a display made of Samsung E4 AMOLED boasting potential advantages such as a 120Hz refresh rate, 360Hz touch-sampling rate and up to 1300 nits of brightness. Then again, the screen does not integrate a fingerprint sensor: it has migrated to the side of the Mi 11i and lives within the power button instead.
Eagle-eyed Mi Fans may already have worked out that this looks an awful lot like the K40 Pro+, Redmi's new Snapdragon 888-powered, 4520mAh flagship phone. However, while this Mi 11i does have this same top-end SoC (and battery capacity), it swaps the Plus model's 12GB of RAM for 8GB instead.
This tweak has conferred a starting price of €649 (~US$763) on the Mi 11i for a 128GB internal storage SKU (with no mention of microSD card support), or €699 (~$822) for a 256GB top-end unit. The Xiaomi Mi 11i will be available through a range of platforms, including Amazon, Saturn and MediaMarkt, soon.