MI5 Meeting will start in China from March 1. But Xiaomi has not yet given any information regarding the sale of this smartphone outside China. Xiaomi Presenting its flagship smartphone as the first Snapdragon 820 processor in the market.
Soon Xiaomi Mi 5 will be launched in India as well. The company has launched Xiaomi Mi 5 in three variants. The standard edition of the Mi 5 packs 3GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 32GB of inbuilt storage, the high variant packs 3GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 64GB of storage, while the Exclusive Edition packs 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The price of Standard Edition is around 21 thousand rupees (1,999 Chinese Yuan), the price of High Variant is about 24 thousand rupees (2,299 Chinese Yuan) while the price of Exclusive Edition has been kept around 28 thousand rupees (2,699 Chinese Yuan).
The design of the Xiaomi Mi 5 is similar to that of the Xiaomi Mi Note, but the rear edges are more curved than before. The phone will be available in Black, White, Gold and Rose colours. This is the first phone from Xiaomi to have a fingerprint sensor along with a physical home button. At the trade show MWC, we got a chance to spend some time with the Xiaomi Mi 5 and here in the video you can also see the first glimpse of this smartphone.
It sports a 5.5-inch Full HD (1080×1920 pixels) display with dual nano SIM support. The density of the display is 428ppi. There is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor with Adreno 530 GPU. The phone has 16 megapixels with phase detection autofocus, LED flash and Sony IMX298 camera sensor. The rear camera also has 4axis OIS (Optical Image Stabilization) and a sapphire glass, protection lens. The smartphone supports 4K video recording. The phone has a front camera of 4 ultrapixels with 2 micron pixels. Both cameras have F / 2.0 aperture.
The dimensions of the phone are 144.5×69.2×7.25mm and the weight is 129 grams. The Mi 5 packs a 3000mAh battery and supports Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 technology.
The phone has a Type-C USB port. Connectivity features include Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/ac, Bluetooth 4.2, GLONASS, and NFC.