The Xiaomi Mi 8 is expected to house a vertical dual rear camera setup which looks pretty similar to that of the Mix Mix 2s. The Mi Mix 2s sports a standard 12-megapixel wide-angle and another 12-megapixel telephoto lens. There is a 1/2.55 inch sensor underneath the wide-angle sensor with 1.4um sized large pixels while and f/1.8 aperture, while the second telephoto lens houses a 1/2.9-inch sensor with an even larger 1.0um sized pixels and f/2.4 aperture. At the front, the Mi Mix 2s comes with a 5MP front camera, placed at the bottom of the device.
The Mi 8, on the other hand, is expected to feature 20MP + 16MP rear cameras with f/1.7 and f/2.0 aperture lenses respectively, and on the front, a 16MP sensor with an f/2.0 aperture lens. It is also said to be the first Android smartphone to house 3D Facial Recognition technology, the same as Apple’s iPhone X. A recent alleged leak of a Mi 8 retail box confirmed that the device will feature a notch in the front to house the new depth sensing modules for 3D Facial Recognition. The supposed retail box also confirmed a Blue colour variant of the Mi 8, along with the fact that it will run on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 flagship SoC.