Xiaomi Mi 5s name confirmed, dual rear camera teased, pricing rumored

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

We’re only four days away from Xiaomi’s increasingly thrilling next-gen flagship phone announcement, and thanks to mixed official signals, as well as the typically jumbled gossip on Weibo, nothing’s certain until it’s certain.What we’re pretty sure of is an affordable Xiaomi Mi 5s powerhouse will break cover on Tuesday, despite recent speculation of a last-minute name change to Mi Note S, with

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Xiaomi Mi 5s is officially teased for looming debut with high AnTuTu score

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AnTuTu is widely recognized as one of the most fickle, least trustworthy mobile device performance testing tools, and yet, everyone keeps paying attention to its reports, especially prior to and shortly after various flagship model releases.Even OEMs will sometimes flaunt unusually high benchmarking scores as ultimate evidence of their products’ imposing raw speed, as seems to be the case for the Xiaomi Mi 5s. This bad boy has practically been confirmed for a September 27 announcement a couple of days ...

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Exciting new Xiaomi Mi 5s rumors call for Snapdragon 821 SoC, ultrasonic fingerprint reader

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Unless Xiaomi has to deal with a Galaxy Note 7-level recall this holiday season, which remains unlikely, you have to figure the fast-rising Chinese OEM will unveil at least one more flagship Android phone by the end of the year.The question is are we looking at a long overdue

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Chinese retailers selling overclocked Xiaomi Mi 5 variants

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No matter which Xiaomi Mi 5 you buy, you’re getting the same Snapdragon 820 as anyone else with an Adreno 530 GPU. The same 3GB of LPDDR4 RAM are there.But man, can things get different.At least one online retailer in China is selling a modified version of the Mi 5. The original Mi 5’s Snap 820 was apparently hard-limited at 1.8GHz while this version brings it up to its max potential of 2.15GHz. The Adreno 530 is stepped up from 510MHz to 624MHz. Lastly, RAM speeds jump ...

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Amazon’s Great Indian Sale arrives with hefty savings on OnePlus X, Xiaomi Mi 5, and more

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In a market already dominated by low-cost smartphone brands, where Apple continues to foolishly pursue profits rather than sales volumes, you don’t see a retailer like Amazon slash prices on Android handhelds quite as often as stateside.But from today through Wednesday, August 10, India-based mobile consumers ...

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Xiaomi Mi 5s leaks along with one foamy VR headset

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It’s rumored that Xiaomi has another big product launch scheduled for tomorrow (well, today in Chinese terms) and part of that expected lineup includes a VR headset.It’s apparently one foamy little piece of kit, according to a well-known Weibo entity. Okay, other than the padding, there’s nothing much to see here, to be honest. Rumors remain that this headset and the Xiaomi Mi 5s that may go along with it will be

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Another Xiaomi explosion, this time a Mi 5 in China

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Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi continues investigating one of its Mi 4i devices after it exploded right in its owner’s hands in India. The company has given a replacement device to that customer, but the damage control has only just begun as another reported explosion has rocked a Xiaomi device.One Weibo user relayed a customer’s pictures of their Mi 5 with its back cover melted off and

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Xiaomi’s crazy deals in India this week include phones and accessories for one rupee

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Xiaomi is huge in China, and also pretty big in Japan India already, despite only entering the latter market about two years ago. Check that, exactly two years ago this week, which is why the budget-conscious smartphone manufacturer is kicking off a 3-day carnival on Wednesday, July 20.To celebrate the company’s local 2nd year milestone, and thank Mi Fans for “being there for us”, half a dozen devices ...

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Xiaomi Mi Note 2 likely teased as greater than Mi 5… or Galaxy Note 5

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A few months later than many probably expected, Xiaomi appears to gear up for a sequel to the early 2015-released Mi Note. The Mi Note 2 will no doubt one-up the recently unveiled Mi Max, which towers above the vast majority of its rival flagship phablets in terms of screen size, but falls short of high-end standards when it comes to resolution, processing power or RAM.Think of the looming 5.7-incher or so as a direct competitor for ...

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Xiaomi Mi 5s may tack on Sense ID ultrasonic fingerprint sensor

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A bubbling of Xiaomi rumors have us excited for the company’s next announcements for this half of the calendar. It’s not just the Mi 5‘s heftier sibling as mentioned above, you see, but there’s talk about the Mi Note 2 and a notebook as well.Unfortunately, Chinese internet chatter about the notebook is limited to just talking about the existence of one. The big ...

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Xiaomi matches Q1 2015 box-office results, with 14.8 million Q1 2016 smartphone sales

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Can China’s most popular smartphone manufacturer mount a serious challenge to Samsung, Apple or even domestic arch-rival Huawei on a global scale in the foreseeable future? It may need to if it wants to continue to grow, as overall 2015 Xiaomi sales failed to meet expectations, and things aren’t looking up just yet.Business isn’t ...

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Gigantic Xiaomi Max incoming with 6.4-inch display, Snapdragon 820

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Naming new phones, tablets, even smartwatches and other types of gadgets can be such a pain that you have to wonder why more companies won’t listen to the voice of the people. That way, maybe it wouldn’t be so hard to distinguish between Samsung mid-rangers, and Sony could have found a better way to follow up its Xperia Z family than go back to X.Xiaomi apparently doesn’t want to make the same mistakes as its illustrious competition, running a poll on how to brand the OEM’s next high-end phablet. There were four choices offered, so the call wasn’t entirely the people’s, but ...

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Xiaomi reportedly grooms direct iPhone SE contender with 4.3-inch screen, Snapdragon 820

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Are smaller-than-5-inch phones passé? Not entirely, that’s for sure, but when it comes to well-equipped models from reputable OEMs, only two names come to mind – the recently unveiled iPhone SE, and the slightly older, much lower-profile Sony Xperia Z5 Compact.Now it appears Xiaomi might be interested in joining the mini-flagship arena too, confirming what we already largely knew – Apple can carve out and revive new and ...

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Super-slim 10,000 mAh Xiaomi Mi Powerbank Pro comes with USB Type-C port at $22

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In case you felt a 3,000 mAh battery with Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 technology wasn’t enough for the hugely in-demand Xiaomi Mi 5, despite the 5.2-incher snubbing the Quad HD screen resolution trend, there’s now a very convenient and cheap way to extend its endurance.Another one, that is, since the Mi 5 obviously supports any universal portable charger, with the right kind of USB adapter. The ...

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Xiaomi Mi 5 demand copiously exceeds supply, Mi 4s racks up 200K+ first-day sales

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

We all know how misleading Chinese “registrations” and “flash sales” can be. If device manufacturers want to artificially inflate buzz around new products, they only need to put a very limited batch up for grabs at first, then gloat about the hours, minutes or seconds it took for inventory to run out.Meanwhile, when you don’t ask for financial information upfront, reservation numbers are meaningless, and resulting unit sales look altogether different. Still, Xiaomi is reportedly having big ...

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