MI FIRST AND THE XIAOMI XIAOMIS Xiaomi Mi 11

This time last year there was only one thing from China making the headlines – and it wasn’t something anybody wanted to pick up. What a difference 12 months make, because here’s something we’d be more than happy to give a good lick. Xiaomi’s Mi 11 is the first phone anywhere to use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 chipset, which you can expect to find in almost all the other flagship phones that’ll emerge throughout the rest of 2021. Paired with up to 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage plus a 4600mah battery and an Adreno 660 GPU, it powers a 6.81in 2K AMOLED screen and a 108MP 8K main camera.

The 123° ultrawide and 50mm telephoto macro lenses offer decent flexibility when it comes to making the most of those megapixels, while optical stabilisation and AI tweaking powers will help to keep your snaps looking sharper than that vaccination needle.

It’s all packed into an 8.06mm chassis that also includes a pair of speakers tuned by Harman Kardon and 50W wireless charging. There’s no word yet on when it’ll spread to the rest of the world, but we’ll be sure to get well within two metres of one when it does.

As hot as… a spot in the vaccine queue £tba / mi.com