In December Xiaomi’s president officially confirmed that Xiaomi will introduce their next flagship, the Xiaomi Mi5 in January. So far we have only seen the launch of the Xiaomi Redmi 2, which can not be considered a flagship. Now we have news from Xiaomi’s official Weibo Website, showing that Xiaomi will indeed show their next Flagship Smartphone on January 15th.

Once again Xiaomi’s official Weibo Site quotes Lei on the Xiaomi Mi5: “There’s no better way to start 2015 than with our newest products.” Xiaomi will hold the official even on January 15th as planned, in Beijing National Convention Center at 2PM.

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On the poster Xiaomi says, that their next flagship will be ” thinner than the wings of a cicada”. The cicada is an insect found in China, and that probably means that slimness will be a huge design factor for the upcoming Xiaomi Mi5.

We already saw some leaks of a purported Xiaomi Mi5 with extremely slim bezels and a larger display of 5.5″ to 5.7″. Other then the extrem slim designn, many fans say that the Hands on the Poster might mean that the Xiaomi Mi5 will come with Fingerprint Scanner. We are not really sure on that part though.

Before we heard already that the Xiaomi will sport the brand new Snapdragon 810 and 4GB of RAM. While many of you remained sceptical, we saw already new phones with the Snapdragon 810 Launch on CES. And also a 4GB RAM Edition of the Asus Zenfone 2, so we might as well see those specs on the new XIaomi Mi5.

Alternative Xiaomi Mi5 Poster Collage made by fans

If anyone of you is interested in seing the show in China, Xiaomi is preselling the tickets to the January 15th Event for 16USD.

Conclusion: Finally we see the new Flagship of Xiaomi coming, this is going to be very exciting. We are pretty sure Xiaomi will once again surprise many of us on the 15th with a true Flagship, the Xiaomi Mi5. We would for sure be pleased to see a Xiaomi Mi5 with Snapdragon 810 and 4GB RAM for 1999 Yuan.
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