Some of the most high-profile upcoming product launches in China will be postponed. The reason is the passing of Jiang Zemin – the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Xiaomi, Huawei, iQOO and MediaTek confirmed they will postpone their product launches in the coming days with official statements on their respective Weibo accounts.
fficial statements from Xiaomi, Huawei, iQOO and MediaTek (machine translated)
Xiaomi 13 series was supposed to debut tomorrow alongside MIUI 14 and a bunch of other Xiaomi devices. Huawei was supposed to launch a pair of new smartwatches on Friday. The iQOO 11 series and iQOO Neo7 SE were scheduled to go official on Friday, December 2 with the latter debuting MediaTek’s Dimensity 8200 chipset. We’ll be on the lookout for more info on the upcoming smartphones and their rescheduled launch dates.
Source 1 • Source 2 • Source 3 • Source 4 (all in Chinese)