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Purported Xiaomi Mi4s/Mi5 photo leak shows off a delicious huge screen - tiny bezels combo

posted by Luis D. / Dec 23, 2014, 5:15 AM

Purported Xiaomi Mi4s/Mi5 photo leak shows off a delicious huge screen - tiny bezels combo

The cheaper those Xiaomis go, the more beautiful they get. Unconvinced? Here's this alleged photo of the next-in-line Xiaomi flagship, tentatively called the Mi 5 or the Mi 4s. Take your pick now, or wait until January, as the rumor mill is assertive towards a CES 2015 announcement for whatever China's #1 smartphone producer has in its cards.

Anyway, the smartphone we're seeing is positively huge, with its display diagonal measuring between 5.5 and 6 inches. The design follows the path threaded by the Xiaomi Mi 4, but as you can see, the bezels here are thin to an extreme. We're thrilled, but a little worried as well, because accidental drops could have a devastating effect here. Hopefully, case makers will invent sufficiently protective accessories for Xiaomi's next.

Specs-wise, the rumor mill has been grinding an all-out sheet that includes a 2K display, a Snapdragon 810 processor, and 3GB of RAM. However, Qualcomm's 64-bit octa-core beast won't be available in handsets until 2015's second quarter, so either Xiaomi will be showing off its new flagship and delaying it, or putting it out with a readily available processor such as the Snapdragon 805. Ahh, CES can't come soon enough!

via GizChina

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18 Comments

1. deanylev

Posts: 234; Member since: Mar 11, 2014

Looks the same as that render, which I thought was fake. This looks pretty real. Interesting.

posted on Dec 23, 2014, 5:22 AM 0

9. neops

Posts: 297; Member since: Jan 28, 2014

http://postimg.org/image/5hp1c7knl/ Proportionally to the hot shoe's dimensions: The display seems to be 5.2" Height 13,6 cm / 5.35" Width 6,6 cm / 2.62" Anyone know what those numbers are? 2778 666 60369 A: 2486 or 2436 B: 608 The sides seem to be metallic: it appears to have 4 plastic gaps

posted on Dec 23, 2014, 10:19 AM 4

13. neops

After a second check and to be more specific: H 13,6 - 14,2 cm and W 6,6 - 6,9 but the display's diagonal still seems to be around 5.2"

posted on Dec 23, 2014, 11:39 AM 0

17. download123456

Posts: 1; Member since: Dec 23, 2014

Hope this will be the dimensions. Size is one of the important selection parameter for MI4..... Company should know this. I hate giants, phone should be easy to handle, with should not be more than 70 mm. Hope they will give wider latitude of 4G LTE frequency support as One plus one...... It is very importent

posted on Dec 23, 2014, 4:42 PM 0

2. Scarambay unregistered

I kinda dig the MIUI of Xiaomi, but hate its launcher with no app drawer. That, and the not-so-good camera of Xiaomi flagships are the only things that's refraining me from grabbing one.

posted on Dec 23, 2014, 5:47 AM 2

4. daftside

Posts: 13; Member since: Apr 26, 2014

Never heard of custom launchers before? btw the camera is actually not that bad, the performance is pretty above average to say the least.

posted on Dec 23, 2014, 5:52 AM 2

7. kaikuheadhunterz

Posts: 1157; Member since: Jul 18, 2013

Especially the one on the Redmi 1S http://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_redmi_1s-review-1138p8.php

posted on Dec 23, 2014, 6:58 AM 0

11. RandomUsername

Posts: 808; Member since: Oct 29, 2013

It's not my favorite UI, but it looks better than iOS in my opinion.

posted on Dec 23, 2014, 11:18 AM 0

3. asingha94

Posts: 295; Member since: Apr 08, 2012

still Chinese & that ugly Ui..!

posted on Dec 23, 2014, 5:49 AM 0

5. greenelektron

Posts: 537; Member since: Sep 10, 2014

The non-chinese version has a better ui, i think. And of course you can install launchers and the google camera or other photo app. I like the design though.

posted on Dec 23, 2014, 6:03 AM 0

6. halofan1996

Posts: 8; Member since: Sep 26, 2013

Definitely gonna grab one of these. Love my Vivo Xplay 3s and probably gonna love this and the Meizu mx4 pro.

posted on Dec 23, 2014, 6:19 AM 0

8. Carl3000

Posts: 240; Member since: Oct 11, 2014

I've been wanting. Xiaomi phone since Mi3 but they don't support T-Mobile lte bands. Hope this changes.

posted on Dec 23, 2014, 7:04 AM 0

10. LuckyS

Posts: 154; Member since: Dec 07, 2013

The biggest problem with these otherwise excellent Chinese phones is brand name. Xiaomi, Meizu, it is hard to pronounce it in English, not even pronounceable in my language.

posted on Dec 23, 2014, 10:45 AM 0

12. Jonas_london

Posts: 26; Member since: Dec 02, 2014

I like the designs of xiaomi phones even though they are copy cats.. . But this one looks really bad, nothing special and aesthetically its doesn't look like a well thought device,off late meizu and vivo have taken them on design front