Despite not having released the Xiaomi 12 Ultra yet, Xiaomi has already started developing the Xiaomi 13 series. So Xiaomi speculates that Xiaomi’s next-generation flagship phones will arrive sooner than expected, supposedly in November. Xiaomi’s flagship number series is usually released in December as the company tries to be an early adopter of Qualcomm’s new technologies. Qualcomm could also consider an earlier release of its Snapdragon Gen 2 chip as a result.

This is a highly speculative, but nonetheless fascinating story. Xiaomi received a total of four IMEIs from a Chinese database, each assigned to a different model number. It appears that these model numbers represent both the Chinese and global variants of the Xiaomi 13 and Xiaomi 13 Pro.