Xiaomi Pocophone MWC launch live blog: follow along as Xiaomi’s new mobiles arrive

Welcome to our Xiaomi Poco live blog – there are about two and a half hours until the event kicks off, so we’ve got a little time to run through what we expect to see.

We’ve got to say, Pocophone’s naming convention is a little confusing.

We’ve already seen a Poco M4 Pro 5G – notice the added ‘5G’ over the name of the handset we’re seeing today – and we wouldn’t be totally surprised if a Poco X4 Pro came at some point too (note the lack of ‘5G’).

Lots of the time when brands use ‘5G’ in the name of a mobile, it doesn’t denote that it’s a separate device to a 4G version, as lots of companies just shove it in the name of any 5G device as a selling point. 

That’s not the case for Xiaomi though, and it uses the suffix 5G to differentiate totally different devices. 

Xiaomi is having a super busy 2022.

Just a month or so ago, we saw the Redmi Note 11 series of affordable devices, and we’re expecting the flagship Xiaomi 12 line to land in the next few months too. 

So expect loads of Xiaomi headlines around this time. Of all its sub-brands, Pocophone is arguably its lesser-known, but the Poco X3 NFC dominated our list of the best cheap phones for ages (and is still there now) so it’s worth paying attention to these new devices.