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In what we'd expect to be the last flagship phone launch of the year, Xiaomi has unveiled the Mi 11 with the brand new Snapdragon 888 chipset from Qualcomm on board – though you won't actually be able to buy the phone until 2021.

The year 2020 has been a strange and disruptive one for all of us, but the smartphone industry has barely slowed down and we've seen some fantastic handsets appear. These are our picks for the very best phones that launched in 2020.

At its annual developer conference last week, Xiaomi announced an upcoming wide-aperture lens that retracts into the body of a smartphone when not in use, promising long optical zoom without increasing the girth of our ubiquitous mobile companions.

Xiaomi continues to push out affordable flagship phones of a quality to make Apple, Samsung, Google and the rest sit up and take notice, and today we've been treated to three more: the Mi 10T Pro, the Mi 10T, and the Mi 10T Lite.

China's Xiaomi has launched a new TV as part of its 10th anniversary celebration. The Mi TV Lux Transparent Edition brings sci-fi into the living room with an edge-to-edge self-luminous television that you can see through.

Chinese gadget maker Xiaomi has celebrated its 10th anniversary as a company with the launch of the Mi 10 Ultra flagship phone – a supercharged handset that follows on from the two Mi 10 smartphones we saw earlier in the year.

Smartphones sold as gaming phones have always been about excess – big screens, big specs, big extras – and with the Black Shark 3 and Black Shark 3 Pro, Xiaomi is pushing those boundaries even further.

Xiaomi has been battling the big flagship phone makers with its own high-spec, medium-price handsets for several years now, and the Chinese manufacturer isn't letting up in 2020. It just unveiled the Xiaomi Mi 10 and Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro.

Xiaomi has unveiled the Mi Mix Alpha, a concept phone with a screen that wraps around the back – plus a frankly-ridiculous 108-megapixel camera.

Chinese phone manufacturer Xiaomi has reignited the megapixel race, long after most of us thought it was over. Along with a 64-megapixel flagship phone for its Redmi brand, the company announced it's preparing to debut a 100-megapixel phone camera designed in conjunction with Samsung.

You might have heard that one of the smartphone trends of 2019 is going to be foldable phones, devices with displays you can actually bend in half. What you might not realize is just how many of these devices are on the way – so we're listing all the phones currently in the pipeline here.

During a recent Beijing event focused on the future of housing, OPEN Architecture and Xiaomi unveiled a tiny shelter for Mars. It's all very conceptual and there's no suggestion the dwelling will actually be installed on the Red Planet, but it's interesting to see architects tackle the idea.