Chinese company Xiaomi has for the first time gone on record to confirm that its upcoming flagship phone Mi5 will come packed with Qualcomm's latest and greatest mobile processor, aka Snapdragon 820. Xiaomi's co-founder and senior VP Liwan Jiang took to Chinese social media website Weibo to confirm that the Mi5 will indeed come with Snapdragon 820 and is has entered mass production.
That's not all. Jiang has also confirmed that the company will launch the Mi5 phone after the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) which is scheduled to start from February 8 2016. The company will make sure that there are enough units of the phone for consumers upon launch. At the same time, Xiaomi's CEO Lei Jun shared his thoughts about the Mi5 on Weibo as well going on to say that he had spent some time with the Mi5. Earlier Jun had said that the Mi5 was "worth waiting for."
Earlier it was being said that Xiaomi's Mi5 may not launch anytime before April 2016 since Samsung holds exclusivity to Qualcomm's next flagship Snapdragon 820 processor until April.
The Mi5 is rumoured to have a 5.2-inch display and will reportedly come in two variants: 3GB of RAM with 32GB inbuilt storage, and 4GB of RAM with 64GB memory. It is expected to sport a 16MP camera on the rear and a 13MP camera on the front. It will reportedly run Android 6.0 Marshmallow based MIUI and use a 3,600mAh battery.
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