After a long wait for 18 months, Xiaomi has finally presented the legitimate successor of its (former) top of the range, the Xiaomi Mi 4, during the MWC 2016 held in Barcelona towards the end of last month. | Xiaomi Mi 5 official |. A few days later, Xiaomi launched the sales of its new flagship in China, which in a few minutes liquidated all available stocks (4 million), reaching a fact new sales record | The inventory provided by Xiaomi is not enough |. But now the time has come to compare the two top of the Xiaomi range and check if this new flagship is really its worthy successor.
Specifications
Xioami Mi 5 received a substantial increase in storage, as RAM increased by 1 GB for their "base" and "pro" versions, and also internal memory by replacing the 16 GB variant with 32 GB and adding a Pro variant with well 128 GB. Moreover, they have not only increased in quantity but also in version, ie RAM has passed from one LPDDR3 to one L while internal memories from eMMC a UFS 2.0 with a very significant performance gain UFS 2.0: What is it and why it makes the Xiaomi Mi 5 so fast |. Finally, the processor is another component that makes the Xiaomi Mi 5 a splinter because, even if they have the same amount of core and almost the same operating speed, the new chip Qualcomm has a new custom architecture (core Kryo) that allow you to achieve much higher levels of performance.
Design & Materials
Xiaomi has devoted a lot of time to the design of its new flagship with the specific intent of breaking the old wording that claimed that the design of its devices were "copied" from those of other brands and, above all, because he wanted his device to be all 'height of its direct competitors (LG G5 and Samsung Galaxy S7).
Moving on, we notice that in the front it changes poco (physical key, larger display, narrower edges) but the real detachment must be found in the back. In fact, we find one glass back cover (o ceramic) with i curved side edges taken from the Mi Note but improved to replace the Mi 4 brick shape and the polycarbonate back cover (less durable and wear-resistant). Secondly, the Xioami Mi 5 has become a bit higher because there is a larger display but it has not increased in either width or thickness, in fact it has shrunk! Reduced is also the weight that the 149 grams of Mi 4 have passed on 129 grams of the Mi 5. Finally, the Xiaomi Mi 4 was available in white or black colors, while the Mi 5 has one more, the gold one (champagne).
Display & Battery
The diagonal Xiaomi Mi 5 display has increased, passing from the 5 "inches of Mi 4 to 5,15 "inches. However, the definition remains unchanged, which is always in Full-HD (1920 x 1080 pixels), with a decrease in ppi which in no way diminishes the beauty and definition of this unit. In addition, however, the number of LEDs has been increased (16) below the display to significantly increase the brightness of the display (600 nits), life time and reduced energy consumption (17%). Finally, there are many new technologies associated with the display (received well 21 patents) including the feature Sunlight, which allows pixel-to-pixel contrast adjustment in real-time based on ambient brightness.
Mi 5's battery is "reduced" by only 80 mAhs, which make no difference; Indeed, the processor, display and all other components of the Mi 5 have a much lower power consumption and consequently the battery life is higher than Mi 4. Finally, thanks to the new Qualcomm processor, you can take advantage of the quick recharge (Quick Charge 3.0) that allows a 80 / 90% smartphone to charge in one hour and resulting in the 20% faster than the previous version (Quick Charge 2.0) in the Xiaomi Mi 4.
Camera
The Xiaomi Mi 5 camera brings with it many new features compared to the one mounted on Mi 4, so we recommend that you take a look at our previous article | Xiaomi Mi 5 official |. The new sensor gets an increase in the number of megapixels, actually going from the 13 MP of Mi 4 to 16 MP of Mi 5. In addition, the latter mounts a new optical image stabilization system (4-axis) which represents an absolute novelty in this regard. Lastly, the front sensor (for selfie) undergoes a megapixel reduction but it adopts much larger pixels (ultra pixel) that can significantly increase image quality. In addition, it supports the function Beautify which further improves image quality.
Conclusions
Surely the Xiaomi Mi 5 deserves the new flagship of the Chinese house in all respects. It brings with it many innovations, partly due also to the lack of a top of the Xiaomi range (excluding phablets) for a year and a half, which have allowed the Xioami Mi 5 to be a real novelty from every point of view. Furthermore, it must be said that, even if it brings with it all these novelties and premium materials, the sale price represents another point in favor, remaining in line with the launch price of the Mi 4 but much lower than the competition.
We may continue, but we think that the superiority of Xiaomi Mi 5 with respect to its predecessor is now apparent, so if you want to do a little bit of insight into the new Xiaomi home flagship, let's take a look at our specific section (you find here) and in particular to this article 10 features of Xiaomi Mi 5 to be considered |.
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