Xiaomi Mi 5 launched in India for Rs. 24,999

As promised Xiaomi has launched its flagship, the Mi 5 in India, making it the first market outside China to receive the Mi 5. The Indian market will get the 3GB RAM and 32GB storage variant of Mi 5, and will cost Rs. 24,999. It will be available in from mi.com through flash sale starting from April 6, and will be available from the Xiaomi's other online sales partners in a few weeks.. Xiaomi also announced Mi Protect for the phone that will cost Rs. 599.

The Xiaomi Mi 5 was launched in China and on the sideline of MWC 2016 in Barcelona last month. The Mi 5 sports an ergonomically designed 3D glass body with a layer of Corning Gorilla Glass on the front and rear. It also has a home button that doubles up as fingerprint scanner and also comes with IR blaster.

Spec-wise, the Xiaomi Mi 5 features a 5.15-inch Full HD curved glass display and is powered by Snapdragon 820 processor aided by Adreno 530 GPU. As mentioned before it comes with 3GB RAM and 32GB UFS 2.0 storage. It runs MIUI 7 based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow and houses dual-SIM slot.

For photography, it gets a 16-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, PDAF (Phase Detection Auto-Focus), 4-axis optical image stabilisation, DTI pixel isolation technology, Spectra image sensor and 4K recording. On the front 4-megapixel 80-degree wide angle camera w/  2um pixel size for snapping selfies and video calling.

Connectivity duties are handled by 4G LTE w/ VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac dual-band (MIMO), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, NFC and USB Type-C port. The Mi 5 is fueled by a 3000mAh battery, which supports Qualcomm's Quick Charge 3.0 fast charging technology, that offers 2.5 hours of talk-time with just five minutes of charge.