Finally, the wait is over as the Chinese giant Xiaomi wraps off the cover from the much-awaited flagship Mi 9 in a dedicated event in China. The device was in rumors and leaks from past few weeks and finally, it goes official today. The Mi 9 is the direct successor of Mi 8 launched back in May 2018.

The latest Mi 9 brings improvements in almost all sections. The best thing is Xiaomi sets the latest flagship device price even slimmer to be the best affordable flagship. The Mi 9 base variant starts at just 2999 Yuan ($445) which is worth appreciatable as it is first Xiaomi's phone with the latest best Snapdragon 855 SoC.

The Mi 9 is certainly amongst the first phones to be available with the Qualcomm's latest chipset. The new SoC is built on the 7nm process and brought a significant improvement over the predecessor in terms of performance. The Snapdragon 855 SoC feature tri-cluster design, the first energy efficient cluster has quad cores of Kryo 485 with max clocking at 1.8Ghz. The second cluster has dual-cores of Kryo 485 with max clocking at 2.42Ghz. Last but not the least the performance-centric cluster has dual Kryo 485 cores with max clocking at 2.84Ghz. The latest Adreno 640 is taking care of graphics.

Thanks to the latest best hardware the Mi 9 is certainly amongst the fastest phones in the market. The Mi 9 features glass and metal sandwich design. Following the latest trend, the Mi 9 comes with gradient finish. The Huawei's dedicated gaming mode was quite a success, to compete it Xiaomi introduces Game Turbo feature which will automatically activate as soon as user launches a game. It will ensure the device peak performance during gaming with higher framerates.

In terms of features the Mi 9 sports a 6.39-inches dewdrop AMOLED display with Full HD+ screen resolution. The company introduces 2.0 version of Sunlight and Reading Mode for better optimization of the display. The Corning Gorilla Glass 6 is covering the display. The fingerprint scanner is embedded under the display.

On the rear side, you will get triple cameras, the primary sensor is a 48MP module with f/1.75 aperture, the secondary sensor is a 16MP wide-angle lens with an f/2.2 aperture to better handle wide-range shots. Last but not least the third sensor is a 12MP telephoto sensor to provide optical zoom. The front-facing selfie snapper is a 20MP module with HDR support.