Xiaomi Mi5 Prime white

I like the build quality. Software seems very snappy. Phone do not have Play store installed when shipped by the manufacturer. The retail store installed Play store for me. Unfortunately Play store did not download software as I got the device. Probably cache and data clean for Google Service framework, Google Play Services and Play store and rebooting would have helped but ended up to install software again. Now Play store works great. So if you want Play store installed and working from the box. I suggest to wait for the international software version. That should be out very soon.

Very pleased with the phone. I did run Antutu three times with best score of 137897. It run little lower scores in palm and in a gel case. Device did feel warm but no means hot when stressed. Geekbench3 did give respectable 2322 for single core and 5433 for multi-core performance. I did also Stagefright detection with result not vulnerable.

Link to cache and data clean howto:

[http://techbeasts.com/2015/06/13/how-to-fix-error-retrieving-information-from-server-rpc-s-7-aec-0/].

Faster lte fdd bands 1, 3 and 7 are supported but slower lte band 20 is not supported.

Link to Europe LTE-FDD Bands:

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks_in_Europe]

Xiaomi Mi5 announcement 24th February

Xiaomi mobile market comet has announced new flagship phone for 2016. The company is founded in 2010 and first phone was released in 2011. Last year company sold over 70 million phones which is phenomenal for start up company. It is first time when Xiaomi announces new phone in Mobile World Conference (MWC16). The Xiaomi Mi5 phone was presented by Vice President of  Global Hugo Barra former Google executive. The Mi5 is 5.15" flagship phone with top notch specifications.

	32 Gb	64Gb	Pro 128Gb
SOC	Snapdragon 820 Lite 4x Kryo @ 1364 / 1592 Mhz	Snapdragon 820 4x Kryo @ 1593 / 2164 Mhz
RAM	3Gb LPDDR4 1333MHz	3Gb LPDDR4 1866MHz	4Gb LPDDR4 1866MHz
Flash	32Gb UFS NAND	64Gb UFS NAND	128Gb UFS NAND
Display	5.15" Corning Glass 4 1080p IPS LCD
Modem	2G/3G/4G LTE Cat 12
Dimensions	144.55x69.23x7.25 mm
Weight	129g		139g
Camera rear	16MP Sony IMX298 F/2.0, 28mm eq, 4-axis OIS
Camera front	4MP F/2.0
Battery	3000mAh
OS	Android 6.0 with MIUI 7
Connectivity	BT 4.2, USB-C, GPS/GNSS, NFC, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac dual-band 2.4 & 5 GHz
SIM size	NanoSIM
Back cover	Gorning Glass 4		Ceramic
Color	Black/White/Gold		Black

Mi5 is available with three colors black, white and gold for 32 and 64 Gb models. The pro version is only available in black.

The design takes much from Xiaomi Note but takes it even further. Glass or ceramic back is seamlessly integrated to metal body.

On the camera side, Xiaomi consist of a 6-lens system with an aperture of f/2.0 and an 35mm equivalent focal length of 28mm. The Mi5 sports Sony IMX298 16MP sensor which has phase detection auto focus and deep trench isolation for better color reproduction.

Mi5 is first phone to introduce 4-axis optical image stabilization. Along with rotational compensation the Mi5 sports transversal stabilization.

There is clear difference between traditional 2-axis stabilization used in iPhone and 4-axis stabilization used in Mi5.

Deep trench isolation is used to isolate sensor pixel from each other. This converts to better color reproduction and lower noise.

Sample picture confirms good color reproduction.

Front camera takes also beautiful pictures.

 Mi5 display is bright with 600 nits. Display has 16 bright LED lights. Xiaomi even claims power consumption is reduced by 17%.

Display has Sunlight technology. This means that display brightens the dark areas of the picture in direct sunlight. This converts to clear and easy to see pictures in bright conditions.

Mi5 is insanely fast! Mi5 sports Snapdragon 820 system on chip. Qualcomm new flagship product for flagship phones. 

Mi5 Antutu score 142084 which makes this phone the wold fastest phone.

Speed doesn't stop here. Blazing fast Qualcomm X12 modem will support up to 600Mbps download speeds. You can actually download full hd movie within 30 seconds.