Updated: It’s official already! This is the date when Europe will get the expected Xiaomi 18 Pro series with a rear display

Update 9. 11. 2026: Xiaomi has officially confirmed the date. The Xiaomi 18 Pro series will be presented to the world 17 November at 14:00 our time at an event in Paris, as Xiaomi announced today in a post on the network X. The series, according to it, will come in two sizes and the main novelty will be a rear display. The fact that the presentation takes place in Paris is also the strongest signal that 18 Pro this time will arrive in Europe as well. You’ll be able to watch the premiere live on mi.com.

Xiaomi 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max will be introduced in the world on 17 November, and Xiaomi revealed this date even earlier than it officially confirmed it. It hid it into the time when its accounts announced that the 18 Pro series is heading to the world. All posts went out at 11:17 local time, and in the US date format, 11/17 means just 17. November.

41 countries and one same time

The puzzle was pointed out by Xiaomi’s marketing chief Xu Fei himself, who on X shared a short video for the 18 Pro series. He added that the same clue was left behind by 41 markets one after another, and advised fans to pay attention to the local posting time. The video itself also highlights the time 11:17. Xiaomi’s global account, for example, posted “going global this November” on November 2 exactly at 11:17, and according to the website XimiTime the same time repeats on the regional accounts.

Xiaomi’s official community on Sunday 8. November wrote that the 18 Pro series will come to foreign markets in November and that the global unveiling is expected in the middle of the month. The seventeenth of November there is mentioned only as a guess that is suggested by the video’s timing. Back then, there was still no official confirmation, and Xiaomi added it only on Monday 9 November.

The Japanese contest ends the day before

A Japanese Xiaomi branch also points to that same day—on X it launched a contest for new products with a deadline of November 16. Companies usually present new products right after the end of such a campaign, which is why the newsroom Notebookcheck expects November 17.

Xiaomi isn’t even just promoting the general “18 Pro series,” though. In Japan and South Korea it officially teases the bigger 18 Pro Max directly, so this time it won’t be China only—even the most expensive model won’t be left there. For European countries Xiaomi has not explicitly confirmed it yet, but the Slovak retailer Planeo has already listed both models in 16 variants, and the same is true for the Italian Epto.

Xiaomi’s first Pro model worldwide from the Xiaomi 13 Pro

After the 17 series, Xiaomi only sent the basic Xiaomi 17 and the 17 Ultra model worldwide, while the 17 Pro with the rear display stayed in China. The standard Pro model was last sold globally during the 13 series. So the rear display returns outside China for the first time since the Mi 11 Ultra from 2021. The smaller 18 Pro has a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, the Pro Max has stronger performance thanks to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Super, and the rear panel can display notifications as well as images generated by artificial intelligence.

The difference from the Chinese versions will mainly be the battery. As we wrote in our article about European prices, the global 18 Pro is expected to have 6,000 mAh instead of 7,000 mAh, and the Pro Max 7,050 mAh instead of 8,500 mAh. Prices at European shops aren’t official yet, but Planeo asks €1,399 for the 18 Pro and €1,599 for the Pro Max.

But it won’t necessarily go at the same pace everywhere—according to the Notebookcheck website, Bolivia and Chile will get them at the earliest in December, while Argentina, Ecuador, or Central American countries will see them only in the beginning of the year 2027. Along with the phones, a smaller version of the Xiaomi Watch S5 could also arrive, according to leaks.

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