The tech world doesn't rest between phones. After Samsung's flagships, Apple's new iPhone SE (yet to arrive in India), Xiaomi's own Redmi Note 3 budget phone and a few others here and there, we now have the much anticipated Mi 5 launching on Thursday afternoon, 31st of March.
Drumming up the excitement for the Mi 5 is the announcement that it had 16 million registrations from potential buyers in China. Xiaomi's budget phones have been such value for money that a flagship is equally anticipated as people feel confident that it'll be a device of supreme quality. It's also been a long while since the predecessor, the Mi 4 was launched and so it's about time there was a new flagship from Xiaomi. The Mi 5 was showcased at this year's CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas.
The Mi 5 comes with a 5.15-inch 1080 x 1920full HD display, and is powered by a Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor with Adreno 530 GPU and has 3GB of RAM with a 4GB version also available. It runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow with MIUI v7.0, along with 32G or 64GB built-in storage. The cameras is a16-megapixel and a 4-megapixel is 3,000mAh with quick charge 3.0. The Mi 5 also has a fingerprint sensor, is a dual SIM device and supports all 4G bands currently in India.There are possibly to be more than one version available with different storage and RAM. It also has NFC and Infra-red.
While none of these specifications sound ground breaking any longer, it remains to be seen just what Xiaomi has added to the formula to make the phone a flagship. It will cost in the region of Rs.30,000, if rumours are to be believed.
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Mala Bhargava has been writing on technology well before the advent of internet in Indians and before CDs made their way into computers. Mala writes on technology, social media, startups and fitness. A trained psychologist, she claims that her understanding of psychology helps her understand the human side of technology.
