Μjust one day after the release of the Mi 8 Explorer in China, the smartphone appeared in TENAA with a smaller Notch size, which has the same model number as the catalog of the company Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) - M1807E8A .
This is the first time we see it outside of China and it seems that its first stop is Singapore. However, the document mentions the phone as the Mi 8 Pro, which could be its international name.
We wonder if the smallest notch shown in the TENAA photos in July could mean that the version made for the Global distribution of the device will not have 3D face recognition, and will be based only on the on-screen fingerprint reader. Only time will tell what is valid and what is not.
However, the fact is that Xiaomi often confuses us a lot with the differences of the devices that are addressed to different markets.