Weekly poll: the Xiaomi Mi 11 is the first S888 powered phone, but is that enough to want one?

That was quick – the Snapdragon 888 was unveiled on December 1 and the first phone to use it arrived on December 28. This is more than a paper launch to claim “first”, by the way, the phone goes on sale on January 1.

This means that the Xiaomi Mi 11 is the first phone that will let buyers experience the performance of the new Cortex-X1 CPU core. The new chipset also supercharges AI performance, which enabled the new video night mode powered by BlinkAI’s deep learning algorithm.

The phone has a triple camera with a 108MP main sensor, similar to that of the Mi 10. The sensor is a whopping…