Xiaomi’s Next-Gen Phone Specs Leak, Will Have Better Retina Display Than iPhone 4S

With hours to go to the much-anticipated launch of China’s hottest homegrown smartphone, likely to be called the Xiaomi M2, the crafty crew at Micgadget got to the Beijing launch event venue way ahead of time and snapped photos of the canvas banners being unloaded. Those reveal what look to be the official stats for the phone. Some highlights? Xiaomi is saying that its new phone’s screen is so hi-res that it surpasses the iPhone 4S, it’ll be rocking Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon S4 (APQ8064) chip, and it’ll be running the very latest v4.1 (aka: Jelly Bean) iteration of Android, of course with its usual MIUI overlay.

Here’s the first official image of the new quad-core beast. Its rear looks a bit too much like the Meizu MX 4-core with its white plastic rear dominated by a large and centrally-positioned camera. There’ll likely be some fallout and social media bitchin’ over that similarity later:

An 8MP camera will be on the back, with a 2MP webcam upfront:

The screen will expand from the 4-incher on the Xiaomi M1 up to 4.3-inches. No specific resolution is mentioned, but it’s clearly stated that the screen will hit 342PPI, making it more pixel-rich than the iPhone 4S (326PPI) and the new Samsung Galaxy SIII (306PPI):

Xiaomi says it reached nearly $1 billion in revenue in the first half of 2012 just on the strength of its one model of phone, so there’s a lot riding on its successor.

Hit the link for a few more sneaky snaps. Our own Willis Wee will be at the Beijing launch event which kicks off at 2:30pm local time.

[Source: Micgadget]