Xiaomi Mi 4i with 5-inch display, Snapdragon 615 SoC goes official

Xiaomi has launched Mi 4i smartphone at its event in New Delhi, India. This was the very first time, the company held a major event outside China.

The Xiaomi Mi 4i has a unibody polycarbonate body and has a soft touch matte finish with anti-grease coating . It features 5-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS fully laminated display with 441ppi resolution and comes with Corning Gorilla glass protection. It also comes with Sunlight display technology which improves screen readability under harsh lighting.

The smartphone is powered by 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor (four performance cores at 1.7GHz and four power saving cores at 1.1GHz) paired with Adreno 405 GPU and 2GB RAM. 

It comes with 16GB internal storage and runs Android 5.0.2 Lollipop with MIUI 6 on top. The MIUI 6 now supports Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada and Malayalam languages. The new version of MIUI also features IVR (interactive voice response) system

Camera features include 13-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone flash, f/2.0 aperture and 5-megapixel front facing camera with f/1.8 aperture and 80-degree wide-angle lens. Camera software includes a 'beautify' feature for selfies that identifies the age of the user applies filters accordingly.

Connectivity options include 4G LTE / 3G, WiFi 802.11 ac/a/b/g/n, USB OTG, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS

It is backed by 3120mAh battery. It also comes with quick charge feature which lets you charge the battery up to 40 percent in One hour and 100 percent in three hours.

The Mi 4i is 7.8mm thick, weighs 130 grams and is available in  black, white, orange, light blue and pink colors.

The Xiaomi Mi4i is priced at Rs. 12,999 and will be available first on Flipkart via the flash sale model. The registration for the flash sale begins today at 8pm and the sale begins on April 30 at 2pm. The handset will be available later on Snapdeal, Amazon and mi.com.

After India, the Xiaomi Mi 4i will launch in China, Singapore and other markets as well.