Xiaomi is often called the Apple of China, but the company has just announced a phone that features one of the iPhone 8’s biggest expected features

Apple’s iPhone 8 – or, iPhone 7s – is expected to be a big deal. It’s no secret that Apple nixed plenty of features from this year’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 in order to make next year’s iPhone even better.

Big design changes are coming to the iPhone and the most notable of which is expected to be an all-screen design for the frontage, sans the company’s traditional home button. All well and good… but here’s the problem for Apple: Xiaomi has just done this with its Xiaomi Mi Mix, a full 12 months before the launch of Apple’s iPhone 8.

And what Xiaomi has come up with here is utterly stunning… I mean just LOOK at it! The damn thing looks like a concept phone!

The Xiaomi Mi Mix will be available in November for just over $500, making it suitably cheap – even by Xiaomi’s usual standards. The Xiaomi Mi Mix features a 6.1in display and the frontage of the phone is ALL display; we’re talking 91.3% coverage here. A first for a mobile phone.

With specs, the Xiaomi Mi Mix packs in impressive stuff as well: a Snapdragon 821 chipset paired with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The camera is a 16MP unit and Xiaomi has outfitted the phone with a 192Hz / 24-bit DAC chip, dual-SIM support, and a 4,400 mAh battery.

As we said earlier, the Xiaomi Mi Mix goes on sale in November. However, this is something of a “project” for Xiaomi, it wanted to be the first to do something like this with display tech, so it isn't certain how many units will be available once it gets official.

This thing is innovative as hell. Nothing in the phone market looks quite like the Xiaomi Mi Mix – and that’s exactly what Xiaomi set out to do. Ex-Google man, Hugo Barra tweeted images of the phone and hyped its world’s first status on Twitter earlier this week.

You can see a the full break-down of the phone in the video below: