Xiaomi Mi 8 SE Specifications, Variants, Price, Availability, Offers

Description

The Xiaomi Mi 8 SE is the cheaper variant of the Xiaomi Mi 8 flagship smartphone, and it comes with impressive specs & features. The Xiaomi Mi 8 SE comes with a notch display like an Apple iPhone X display. The smartphone looks boxy with no curved edges, and it comes in Black, Blue, Red and Gold colours. The smartphone comes in two variant and it is powered by octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 chipset, brings emphasis on AR & AI. The smartphone comes in two variant and it runs on Android 8.0 Oreo with MIUI 10.

Design and Display

Design wise, the Xiaomi Mi 8 SE sports the trending notch display like Apple iPhone X, a slight chin at the bottom, and dual-rear camera set up along with dual-LED flash on the back. The smartphone features an aluminum alloy body and has a boxy look with no curved edges. The Xiaomi Mi 8 SE is rectangular and protected with a Corning Gorilla Glass 5 on top, reflecting the light in the most subtle way. There is a fingerprint scanner at the back, and available in Gray, Blue, Red, Gold, and Black colours. The smartphone measures 147.28×73.09 x7.5 mm and weigh 164g.

The Xiaomi Mi 8 SE features 5.88-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 2244 x 1080 pixels at an aspect ratio of 18.7:9 along with 60,000:1 contrast ratio, and has 423 pixels per inch density. The smartphone has 81.3 percent screen-to-body ratio, 600 nits brightness for better outdoor visibility. Nonetheless, the screen is HDR10 compliant, DCI-P3 colour gamut and protected by Corning Gorilla 5 on the top.

Performance and Storage

The Xiaomi Mi 8 SE is the first smartphone which is powered by 2.2GHz 64-bit Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 10nm processor. The 10nm octa-core chipset includes two Kryo 360 Cortex-A75 cores that clocks at 2.2GHz and six Kryo 360 Cortex-A55 cores clocks at 1.7GHz. The processor is paired with Adreno 616 graphics and 4GB/6GB LPDDR4x RAM.

The smartphone has 64GB (eMMC 5.1) internal storage, not expandable via microSD card.

Camera And Operating System

The cameras on the Xiaomi Mi 8 SE sports dual 12MP + 5MP rear-camera setup with f/1.9 and f/2.0 aperture respectively. The 12MP rear camera comes with 1.4µm pixel size, 1.4μm pixel size, dual-pixel PDAF, gyro-EIS while the secondary 5MP shooter features a telephoto lens and comes with 1.12um pixel size. The rear-camera accompanied with dual-LED flash. Other features on the rear cameras include Bokeh mode, portrait mode, geo-tagging, touch focus, facial recognition, HDR adjustment, panorama mode, burst mode, and the usual AI enhancements like beautification, business card recognition, intelligent translation, and intelligent exchange rate conversion. Video recording at [email protected] and [email protected]/120fps. On the front, there is a 20-megapixel sensor with 1.4μm pixel size, f/2.0 aperture, AI portrait, background bokeh, smart beauty features built-in front soft light, automatic HDR, 4K video capture, and low motion.

The Xiaomi Mi 8 SE runs on Android Android 8.1 Oreo operating system with MIUI 9 on top of it, upgradeable to MIUI 10.

Connectivity and Battery

The Xiaomi Mi 8 SE has dual-SIM (Nano+Nano) SIM Support and connectivity features like Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4GHz / 5GHz) 2×2 MIMO, GPS, AGPS, GLONASS, VoLTE, and USB Type-C support. The smartphone comes with onboard sensors like gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, ambient light sensor, hall sensor, vibration sensor and infrared.

The Xiaomi Mi 8 SE packs 3120mAh non-removable Li-Polymer battery with support for Quick Charge 3.0, charges the smartphone from 0% to 100% in just 1.7 hours. The battery claims to offer 269 hours of standby time, 108 hours of local music playback, 13 hours of video playback, and 7 hours of gaming.

Xiaomi Mi 8 SE Technical Specifications

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Mi 8 SE

CYN 1799

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