The most powerful Xiaomi smartphone, but also the strangest, is about to arrive in Europe too: here’s when and how much it will cost.
It is not yet official the European “go” to sales of the best smartphone that Xiaomi has so far presented in 2021, namely the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra that we told you here) but to tell the truth there were never many doubts that the arrival of Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra in the Old Continent was only a matter of days, or at most a couple of weeks.
It is, after all, a product that has won many for the very few compromises in terms of technical features, perfect to fight on equal terms with the best exponents of competition on a market, the European one, accustomed to host clashes between titans to the sound of numbers. Officialized on March 29, 2021 along with the other components of the line at the top of the range, for Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra is almost arrived the time to measure itself with its peers, on all Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G and OPPO Find X3 Pro. “Almost arrived” for two reasons. The first: the European debut, according to today’s rumor, is still a few days away. The second: it will initially only be available in one country.
Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra availability in Europe
While waiting for an official statement on timing from Xiaomi, the rumor running around the web suggests circling in red on the calendar on Tuesday, May 11. A good news, if it were not that Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra should sit – at least at the beginning – only in stores in the Netherlands.
It is difficult for Xiaomi to bear the costs of an export to Europe of its flagship to market it in a single country, moreover rather small as the Netherlands. But in a 2021 deeply marked by the crisis of the chips that has put and is putting on his knees the producers of any object that contains one or more chips, apparently incomprehensible strategies could be explained by the difficulties that the industry is going through.
So the announcement by Xiaomi about the marketing of Mi 11 Ultra in Europe assumes a crucial importance, and from the words of the company we could guess how things are and possibly the timing of maximum for Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra to be offered throughout Europe.
The price of Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra in Europe
The rumor of the past few hours has also anticipated what should be the European price of Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra, or rather what will be in the Netherlands. The company would have decided not to market the basic variant with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage and even the top 12 + 512 GB, but only the one with 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of internal memory, at a price that “popular” could not have been.
It seems that Dutch fans will need 1.199 euros to take home a Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra, a high price in absolute terms but not relative to the competition: Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G, its direct competitor, costs 1,249 euros in list in configuration 12 + 128 GB.
Different speech if you look at Italy, where due to heavier taxation Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G in the same configuration of memories costs 1,279 euros in list, then 30 euros more with the same memories. Consequently, not to be disappointed, it is fair to expect a higher price even for Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra than what would be applied in the Netherlands. We will know more in the coming hours.