It wasn’t until two years later, though, when Xiaomi wowed the industry with its pioneering bezel-less Mi Mix that it finally shed that label. On Thursday Xiaomi announced its newest flagship smartphone – the Mi 8 – in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, and it is the most blatant rip-off yet of the iPhone X. That’s saying a lot, considering that in 2018 every Android phone maker bar Samsung has copied the front-display notch the iPhone X pioneered to house its front-facing camera. The top variant of the Mi 8, dubbed the “Explorer Edition”, presumably due to its transparent glass back, even lifted wholesale Apple’s animated emojis (animojis). The top-end Explorer Edition costs 3,299 yuan (RM2,049). The Explorer Edition also has a fingerprint reader embedded underneath the screen as a secondary unlock method.

Source: The Star June 01, 2018 06:56 UTC