Xiaomi's Mi 5 may not have a launch date yet but there has been no
shortage of rumoured details emerging out from the firm's homeland
China. The latest in the series claims that Xiaomi may prefer pricing
its upcoming Mi 5 flagship at as high as CNY 2,499 (approximately Rs.
26,000).
The move is said to transform the Chinese company's brand
image which has seen since the start been considered an affordable
brand. The high pricing of the Xiaomi Mi 5 can also be seen as an attempt to
compete against other Chinese counterparts such as OnePlus, Huawei, and
Meizu among others.
Another detail about the Xiaomi's
yet-to-be-announced Mi 5 says that the phone may not launch until April
2016. A report of China
cites use of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 processor. This corroborates to
an earlier report that said Samsung had an agreement with Qualcomm that gave the brand an exclusive access to the chipset until
April 2016. This would mean that no handset brand can launch its
high-end device with the Snapdragon 820 before Samsung's next flagship,
which is likely to feature the chipset.
We'd like to remind
readers however, all these leaks should be taken with a pinch of salt as
Xiaomi has not mentioned anything about the upcoming device beyond
teasing how good it will be, and the legitimacy of the leaks remains
questionable.
A recent leaked listing of the Xaomi Mi 5
purportedly claimed $599 (roughly Rs. 40,000) to be the retail price of the
handset.
Some reports have claimed that Xiaomi may launch two
versions of the Mi 5 - one priced at CNY 1,999 (approximately Rs.
20,800) and another at CNY 2,499 (approximately Rs. 26,000). The Chinese
company is also said to use a pressure-sensitive touchscreen, which
will be a technology similar to Apple's 3D Touch-like pressure sensitive
technology. The Chinese company may not have revealed launch date of
the Mi 5 flagship smartphone, but the company has been buzzing social
media with claims that the handset will be "worth the wait" and is
"very, very good".
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