It only took a couple of hours for the first phones with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips to go official in China. The Xiaomi 18 Pro is the first Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 phone on the market, while the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max claims dibs on the 8 Elite Extreme variant.
Xiaomi 18 Pro (left) and 18 Pro Max (right)
Outside of the new flagship chips, the Xiaomi 18 Pro series brings larger batteries, hardware-level privacy displays, updated telephoto cameras, and they retain the rear screens from their predecessors.
But Xiaomi is adding extra functionality with its new AI…
