Xiaomi Mi 11

Xiaomi Mi 11

Chinese phone maker Xiaomi announced the Xiaomi Mi 11 smartphone in Kenya. The Xiaomi Mi 11 is priced at 81,800 Kenya shillings for the 8GB + 128GB storage configuration. Interested customers can pick it up in the Black, White, Blue, Purple, or Khaki color option. The device can be purchased from Phonesstore Kenya.

Xiaomi Mi 11 price in Kenya and key features

Features

The Xiaomi Mi 11 measures 164.30 x 74.60 x 8.06 mm (height x width x thickness) with a total weight of 196 grams. Coming to cameras, it has a triple 108 MP + 13 MP + 5 MP rear camera and a 20 MP front camera for selfies. This phone has a 6.81 inches, 1440 x 3200 pixels Super AMOLED display with a pixel density of 515 PPI. It has a 2.0, Type-C 1.0 port for data syncing and charging. There is a fingerprint sensor present on the Xiaomi Mi 11. It is a dual SIM smartphone with support for 5G LTE, Wi-Fi, and GPS too. Buy it today at Phones Store Kenya.

Launch

This phone, the Xiaomi Mi 11 was released in 2021, January 01. This phone has a 164.3 x 74.6 x 8.1 mm dimension and weighs about 196 g (Glass) / 194 g (Leather). It is also a Dual SIM smartphone that uses Nano-SIM and has dual stand-by or Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by). On the front is a hole-punch display wherein the selfie camera lies. Its back panel has a triple-camera module on the right-hand side. As for the fingerprint scanner, it is under the display and an optical one.

The Xiaomi Mi 11 comes in the color Black, White, Blue, Purple, and Khaki. It makes use of the USB Type-C 2.0 and has no 3.5 mm jack. The phone also has Bluetooth version 5.2, A2DP, LE, aptX HD, aptX Adaptive, and GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BDS, QZSS, NavIC. It also supports Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot. As for NFC, it is very much present (market/region dependent) alongside the Infrared port.

Network

The Xiaomi Mi 11 smartphone supports network technologies in GSM, HSPA, LTE, and 5G. HSPA extends and improves the performance of existing 3G mobile telecommunication networks using the WCDMA protocols. LTE  is a standard for wireless broadband communication for mobile devices and data terminals, based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA technologies.

Global System for Mobile Communications is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to describe the protocols for second-generation digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets – see also Xiaomi Mi 10 5G smartphone.

Display

Now, let us take a look at the display this phone has to offer. Everyone loves a good display on a phone for obvious reasons. Namely, the display is the one part of a phone you will ever interact with. Xiaomi Mi 11 has one of the most brilliant display panels that measures 6.81 inches, 112.0 cm². It is an AMOLED capacitive touchscreen that supports 1B colors and multi-touch.

This display has a decent 1440 x 3200 pixels resolution and an equally fair 515 PPI density. As for the selfie camera, it is that 20 MP, 27mm (wide). Display features here include 1B colors, 120Hz, HDR10+, 1500 nits (peak), and Corning Gorilla Glass Victus.

Platform

A phone platform is the hardware/software environment for tablets, smartphones, and other portable devices. Xiaomi Mi 11 runs on the Android 10 operating system. Android 10 is the tenth major release and the 17th version of the Android mobile operating system. It was released on September 3, 2019. Also powering the Galaxy A12 is an Octa-core (1×2.84 GHz Kryo 680 & 3×2.42 GHz Kryo 680 & 4×1.80 GHz Kryo 680, Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888 (5 nm) chipset.

Under the hood, it also brings an Adreno 660 GPU. The Qualcomm Adreno 660 is a smartphone and tablet GPU that is integrated within the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC. The Mi 11 comes with 128GB with 8GB RAM, 256GB with 8GB RAM, or 256GB of internal storage with 12GB RAM. You may also want to check out the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Pro smartphone to compare the two.

Cameras

There are four cameras on the Samsung Galaxy A12. They are made up of a main 108 MP, f/1.9, 26mm (wide), 1/1.33″, 0.8µm, PDAF, OI, 13 MP, f/2.4, 123˚ (ultrawide), 1/3.06″, 1.12µm, and a 5 MP, f/2.4, (macro), 1/5.0″, 1.12µm. Its main feature is Dual-LED dual-tone flash, HDR, panorama and it can shoot video up to 8K@24/30fps, 4K@30/60fps with the main camera, and 1080p@30fps also with the selfie. Speaking of the selfie, on A12 there is a single 20 MP, 27mm (wide), 1/3.4″, 0.8µm shooter.

Final remarks

To summarize the Xiaomi Mi 11 in a sentence, it’d say “like a Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra but with a Snapdragon 888.” That’s because Xiaomi has carried over many of the Mi 10 Ultra’s features, from the gorgeous 2K 120Hz OLED screen to the subtle curvature on all four sides of the screen to even that “squircle” shaped camera module.

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