Once again a very exciting year for Xiaomi and Xiaomi fans. Xiaomi grew very agressively in 2014 and managed to sell three times more gadgets then in 2013. Now it seems like they will open the new year with the introduction of a new Flagship Smartphone as Xiaomi’s Ceo announced yesterday.

Xiaomi Mi5 Black Edition leak Picture

There were some people saying that Xiaomi will, in Apple Style, launch a Xiaomi Mi4S. According to our newest information from Krypton 36, a quite reliable news site from China, the new Xiaomi will be indeed the Xiaomi Mi5. As you can see in the picture of the black Xiaomi Mi5, the new Xiaomi Flagship has extremely thin bezels and a display that is for sure larger than 5 inch.

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According to Krypton 36 the Xiaomi Mi5 will indeed come with Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 SOC, the newest Octa-Core 64Bit processor by Qualcomm. Also the Xiaomi Mi5 will a display that is bigger than 5″ with a Quad HD 2K Resolution and whopping 4GB of RAM. To finish this dream package the Xiaomi Mi5 will come with a 1.75um large pixel camera sensor and 2.5D sapphire glass to protect the display.

Xiaomi Mi5 White Edition leak Picture

Conclusion: Lets try to make some sense of all the reports and rumors.

• Xiaomi Mi5 Launch Date: I think we can be quite sure to see the next Xiaomi Mi5 Flagship Launch in January. Xiaomi has been facing intense competition from Meizu and other brands, and quite frankly the Mi4 cant win against MX4 and MX4 Pro. The Launch of a new Flagship Mi5 with Snapdragon 810 Octa-Core would make a lot of sense right now for 2015.
• Xiaomi Mi5 Specs: I think the Snapdragon 810 is realistic. The new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will also come in a Snapdragon 810 edition very soon. For RAM we predict only 3GB RAM instead of 4GB and we are also pretty sceptic for Sapphire Glas. After all Xiaomi is intending to sell the phone for 1999 Yuan, aka 1100RM. Sapphire Glass would make the phone too expensive in our opinion.
• Xiaomi Mi5 Design: As you can see in our newest pictures and the older picture, two facts are pretty clear. You get a screen that is bigger then 5inch, probably 5.5″ or 5.7″ and you will get extreme thin bezels. Both of the facts is probably exactly what most of the fans wished for, so that is extremely good news

Xiaomi Mi5 with Fingerprint Scanner

Xiaomi confirmed earlier that they wont participate in CES 2015, what means that they also probably wont launch in USA right now. I still think that we can trust Bin Lin’s statement and will see a launch of the new Xiaomi Mi5 in January 2015.
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