Xiaomi mi5: technical characteristics, availability and price

The Xiaomi Mi5 is now official, finally the new high-end Chinese smartphone that has been announced at the MWC in Barcelona with specifications worthy of the best models on the market. Do you want to know the secrets of the Mi5? Keep reading.

Xiaomi Mi5 design

The Xiaomi Mi5 features a very careful design with an aluminum casing and a very slim body with curved and angular lines, especially on the rear side. The dimensions of the equipment reach 144.55 x 69.2 x 7.25 millimeters and a weight of 129 grams in its aluminum version. There is a ceramic version with a slightly higher weight of 139 grams. Xiaomi thus confirms once again the abandonment of plastic in its terminals and the choice of much more noble materials for a better finish. A home button is seen on the front that hides a fingerprint reader, Xiaomi has decided to put it on the front so as not to harm the rear camera

Latest hardware

The Xiaomi Mi5 is built with a screen with IPS technology and a diagonal of 5.15 inches, it has opted for a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels that ensures excellent image quality with its 428 ppi. It may seem like a low resolution compared to smartphones with QHD but in a 5-inch size the differences are almost negligible and the Xiaomi Mi5 will be able to boast less battery consumption and much more comfortable performance.

The screen presents a contrast of 1400: 1 and uses a technology that has managed to reduce battery consumption by 17%. It has a maximum brightness of 600 nits to be able to see it perfectly in the sun and is able to reduce its brightness to 1 nit for a more comfortable night use.

If the screen is at the height of the best, we will fall in love with its interior with an advanced and very powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, a chip manufactured in 16nm and consisting mainly of four Kryo cores and an Adreno 530 GPU. It may not be the processor with more cores on the market but Qualcomm recovers its premise of quality before quantity with this chip and has opted for a design with custom cores for maximum performance and great energy efficiency.

Really powerful hardware to get the most out of your Android Marshmallow-based MIUI 7 operating system powered by a 3, 000 mAh battery with Quickcharge 3.0 fast charge technology.

The Xiaomi Mi5 arrives in several versions that are differentiated by its internal storage and RAM. So we will have to choose between versions with 3 GB / 4 GB of LPDDR4 RAM and with storage of 32 GB / 64GB and 128 GB. An excellent idea to adapt to the needs of a large number of users and their pocket.

Very advanced optics and connectivity at the height of the best

The optics of the Xiaomi Mi5 have been pampered in all its details so as not to disappoint even the most demanding users. The rear camera features a 16MP Sony IMX298 sensor with f / 2.0 aperture and DTI pixel isolation technology to improve photo quality in low light conditions by reducing noise and separating colors from different pixels with Greater precision. Its shutter is very fast to capture moving scenes with great clarity and sharpness. Finally, it has a 4-axis stabilizer to minimize movement in videos. The front camera has a 4MP sensor and has a 2 micron sensor to enhance selfies.

The Xiaomi Mi5 shows that it lacks nothing with the presence of technologies that until now were exclusive to the most expensive smartphones. We highlight the inclusion of NFC, something very unusual in Chinese smartphones and this is the first Xiaomi that includes it. Also not lacking is an advanced USB Type-C connector, dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Bluetooth 4.1, A-GPS and GLONASS.

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Availability and price

The Xiaomi Mi5 will go on sale in China on March 1 for prices of about € 277 in its 32GB version with 3GB of RAM, € 319 for the 64GB version with 3GB of RAM and € 375 for the 128GB ceramic version. with 4GB of RAM.