Xiaomi Mi5: a review, specifications, reviews

For the first quarter of 2016, the release of the long-awaited flagship from Xiaomi is scheduled. The company has been enjoying excellent devices for many years. But what can surprise the experienced users with the Mi5 novelty?

Design

Phone Xiaomi Mi5 is made in a discreet but elegant style. It is impossible to call the design catchy, rather - refined. The device attracts with its simplicity, which is rarely found among the flagships.

The filling is packed in a metal casing with a thickness of only 5.3 millimeters. Like all flagships, the device acquired an oleophobic coating. Traces of fingers and small scratches will not be terrible for this Chinese miracle.

On the front of the device is a display, camera, sensors, speaker, emblem, and controls. The shelter for the power button and the volume control was the right side, and the left was empty. On the back of the main camera, logo and flash. The upper part is allocated for the headset connector, and the lower part for the USB socket and the speaker. Also on both ends are placed microphones.

It is not necessary to doubt as an assembly. The manufacturer always pays the necessary attention to this feature. Even in appearance, Mi5 is a monolithic device.

The company Xiaomi promised a large number of colors. According to the photos available on the web, it can be assumed that the device will not only get the usual white and black, but also yellow, pink and blue colors.

Camera

According to information about Xiaomi Mi5, the characteristics of the main matrix will be 16 megapixels. Accordingly, the resolution will be 5312 by 2988 pixels. The camera device can easily compete even with eminent flagships.

Do not let down and frontalka in Xiaomi Mi5. The review of the characteristics reports about 6 megapixels. The camera will cope not only with video calls, but also provide amazing quality of self-portraits.

In the device there are all the most popular functions. In addition to the flash, there is autofocus, optical stabilization and many useful settings.

Autonomy

The manufacturer equipped the Mi5 with a battery capacity of 3200 maH. It may seem that for the flagship this is not enough, but the battery will provide about 5-6 hours of active work.

At maximum load, the battery will be discharged faster, but the company took into account this situation. The phone got the technology of fast battery charging. Quick Charge allows literally in an hour to completely fill the capacity.

Display

The flagship got a diagonal of 5.3 inches. From similar displays it is distinguished by a high resolution: as many as 2560 by 1440 pixels. The image has 554 ppi. The user will not find the pixels, even looking at the screen.

Significantly increases the brightness of the IPS matrix Xiaomi Mi5. The review of angles also does not cause censures. Even with a strong slope, the distortion of the picture will not be noticeable. The device was also equipped with an anti-reflective coating.

An interesting feature was the ability to work with the screen even in gloves. The manufacturer took care of the additional protection. The display was resistant to scratches and finger marks.

Hardware

A new processor SnapDragon 820 was a pleasant surprise in the Xiaomi Mi5. The release date of the device was transferred because of the expectation of this chip.

The processor includes eight cores with 64-bit operation frequency. Performance will also please owners. Four cores run at 2.2 GHz, and the rest at 1.8 GHz. As the graphic accelerator is Adreno-530.

The Mi5 device received 4 gigabytes of RAM. It is planned to release several variations of the device with 16 and 64 GB native memory. The price will vary significantly. Unfortunately, the company plans to abandon the possibility of expanding memory with a flash drive.

System

Smartphones will be released on the platform "Android" with version 5.1. It's too early to talk about updates, but most likely, the user will have the opportunity to switch to the 6.0 system.

Release

For Xiaomi Mi5, the release date was scheduled around mid-January. However, the manufacturer's desire to install a new SnapDragon slightly postponed the release.

The company said that the device will be released after the New Year in China. Accordingly, on the shelves of the device will appear in late February.

Price

The price fully corresponds to the characteristics of Xiaomi Mi5. The price for the version having 16 GB will be approximately 312 dollars. Considerably more expensive device with 64 GB of native memory. Its price is about 390 dollars.

High cost does not frighten those who want to buy Xiaomi Mi5. Overview of the characteristics, as well as the raisins of the device only encourage fans. One can confidently say that the Mi5 is one of the most anticipated smartphones.

Reviews

Not yet released, the device collected a lot of user opinions. First of all, the fans paid attention to the expected processor, installed in Xiaomi Mi5. The review of the filling has enthralled and fully met long expectations. The device can compete with the market leaders without any difficulties with its performance.

The screen of the device was also given a lot of attention. The image promises to be terrific, although the flagship of the other was not expected.

Refined design users also took it with a bang. Smartphone bribes its external simplicity without any frills.

A somewhat incomprehensible situation turned out with the version of the system. It was expected that the device will immediately work on 6.0, but the manufacturer has cooled the ardor of fans, installing version 5.1.

Asking for Xiaomi Mi5 price is not particularly surprised. For such an excellent device, it is not a pity to give away several hundred dollars.

The result

Despite the fact that the company has recently slowed down, this did not affect the successful decisions. Apparently, the manufacturer decided to move from quantity to quality, a striking example was Mi5. It remains to be hoped that the expectations of the fans will be fully justified.