As scheduled, Xiaomi has officially launched their latest flagship smartphone, Xiaomi Mi 5. It is not just a smartphone, but a Beast that cost just the half of Samsung Galaxy S7. The phone will be available in China starting from March 1st. It comes in three different variants in terms of storage and RAM, and hence its price differs too. Let’s find out the same:
- Xiaomi Mi 5: 3GB RAM with 32GB storage and 1.8GHz Snapdragon 820 SoC – 1999 Yuan / $306 / Rs. 20,950 approximately
- Xiaomi Mi 5: 3GB RAM with 64GB storage and 2.15GHz Snapdragon 820 SoC – 2299 Yuan / $350 / Rs. 24,000 approximately
- Xiaomi Mi 5 Pro: 4GB RAM with 128GB storage and 2.15GHz Snapdragon 820 SoC – 2699 Yuan / $413 / Rs. 28,300 approximately
Coming to the specifications, Xiaomi Mi 5 features a 5.15 inch Full HD display with curved glass, 95% of the NTSC color gamut and 600 nits brightness offering 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution. You will surely enjoy watching movies or paying games on such amazing display. It is a Dual SIM smartphone supporting both Nano sim cards and comes out of the box running Android 6.0 Marshmallow based MIUI 7. The software carries amazing features with it too. For the first time, any Xiaomi smartphone carries a physical Home button and that too with Fingerprint scanner integrated with it offering better security.
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Xiaomi has powered the new Mi 5 with two difference Snapdragon processors (variants) as we saw above in the pricing section. But both of them are Snapdragon 820 Quad-Core 64-bit processors accompanied by Adreno 530 GPU. Furthermore, as mentioned above, Mi 5 has a variant with 3GB LPDDR4 RAM and 32GB or 64GB (UFS 2.0) internal storage, and a 4GB LPDDR4 RAM with 128GB (UFS 2.0) internal storage variant. You should not even doubt about performance or multitasking on this phone with such powerful processing.
Coming to the camera section, Xiaomi Mi 5 has a 16 Megapixel primary shooter with dual-tone LED flash, Sony IMX298 sensor, f/2.0 aperture, PDAF and 4-axis OIS. Not only you get stunning pictures with this camera but also record Ultra HD 4K videos. On the front facing, the phone carries a 4 Megapixel Selfie shooter with 2um pixel size, f/2.0 aperture and 80-degree wide-angle lens.
Xiaomi Mi 5 also seems great in connectivity supporting 4G LTE with VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac dual-band (MIMO), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, NFC and USB Type-C. Xiaomi has backed up the phone with 3,000mAh built-in battery with Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0. The phone will surely accompany you for more than a day in single charge.
Xiaomi Mi 5 Specifications:
- Android 6.0 Marshmallow based MIUI 7
- Dual SIM (nano + nano) Support
- Fingerprint scanner
- 5.15 inch Full HD display with curved glass, 95% of the NTSC color gamut and 600 nits brightness
- 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution
- 3GB RAM with 32GB storage and 1.8GHz Snapdragon 820 64-bit Quad-Core processor
- 3GB RAM with 64GB storage and 2.15GHz Snapdragon 820 64-bit Quad-Core processor
- 4GB RAM with 128GB storage and 2.15GHz Snapdragon 820 64-bit Quad-Core processor
- 16 Megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, Sony IMX298 sensor, f/2.0 aperture, PDAF and 4-axis OIS
- 4K video recording
- 4 Megapixel front-facing camera with 2um pixel size, f/2.0 aperture and 80-degree wide-angle lens
- 4G LTE with VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac dual-band (MIMO), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, NFC and USB Type-C
- 3,000mAh built-in battery with Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0
