The much anticipated Xiaomi Mi 5 smartphone has been spotted in leaked image has been posted on Weibo. The purported handset is believed to house a physical Home Button with fingerprint scanner. This is the first high-end handset launched by Xiaomi in more than a year.
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Xiaomi predicts an enormous spike in the demand for Mi 5 especially with several teasers going on in public. Xiaomi Co-Founder and Senior VP Liwan Jiang have already confirmed that the handset will be announced after the Chinese New Year in February and will go on sale a week after launch.
Xiaomi Mi 5 specifications and features: From everything we know so far, the Mi 5 is set to sport a 5.2-inch QHD (2560×1440 pixels) display with pixel density of 565ppi. As some of you might recall since the first time we came across the Mi5 in Geekbench, the smartphone was equipped with a Snapdragon 820 “revision 1” SoC and was capable of yielding 2,140 and 4,752 points in single and multi-core tests respectively. 4GB RAM is expected in the flagship device with 16-64GB of internal memory to be included, no word on expandable memory yet. The higher variant of the device will get 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of onboard storage.
Powered with a 3,600mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0 technology, Xiaomi Mi 5 is expected to run on Android 6.0 Marshmallow interfaced with MIUI 7.
According to an International Data Corporation (IDC) report, Xiaomi was the fifth largest smartphone vendor in Q3 2015 and shipped 18.3 million units, including the Redmi Note 2, Redmi 2A Prime and Mi 4c.
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It has been a long wait for the Mi 5 and customers will have to hold on for another few weeks for the official announcement of the newest Xiaomi phone.
