Xiaomi announced the Mi 8 series in three flavors – a regular version, a cheaper Mi 8 SE and a premium variant with see-through back and in-house Face ID solution, called Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer. The phone is finally arriving at the Mi Store, as announced by the company, for CNY3,699 which is nearly $530.
A couple of leaked images on Weibo — first spotted by Chengming Alpert — are enough to break the mirage although it must be clearly understood that the Mi 8 Explorer Edition has a glass back that’s transparent and Xiaomi’s isn’t using a sticker to accentuate its design. On the contrary, the company has used a cosmetic motherboard that sits comfortably above the actual circuitry to create an optical illusion. The innards of the phone are still far from perfect in terms of arrangement, as it is the case with any other smartphone. Xiaomi is only using a second layer up-top below the glass to make it look as futuristic as it does.
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The phone has a Snapdragon 845 chipset, coupled with 8 GB RAM. Storage is 128 GB, although this is all you get – no microSD slot on board. The screen is 6.21” Super AMOLED panel with a cutout on top for the selfie camera, speaker, and advanced facial recognition software, simply called Face ID. The screen enables the implementation of an under-display fingerprint scanner, making it the first Xiaomi phone with such feature.
The back is also pretty impressive. There is no sensor whatsoever, and the panel is transparent, revealing all the internals, including the mainboard along with the Snapdragon 845 chipset and the 3,000 mAh battery. The runs MIUI 9.5 out of the box, based on Android Oreo, but will soon switch to MIUI 10.
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