Xiaomi Mi 5 real-world image leaks out

Xiaomi Mi 5 prototype out in the wild
Chinese company Xiaomi has quickly grown to become one of the world's 5 biggest phone makers, but this growth is due mostly to its huge presence in Asia, while in the United States and most of the Western world, Xiaomi phones are not even officially sold. Nonetheless, when a company this big is preparing to release its flagship phone, the world watches in interest. Even more so given the fact that after the successful Xiaomi Mi 4, the company went throughout the whole of 2015 without releasing its successor.
Xiaomi is big in China, but still not likely to sell its phones in the United States
Today, nearly a month before the big announcement, though, a trust-worthy image showing a prototype of the Xiaomi Mi 5 has surfaced in Weibo, China's Twitter-like microblog.What else does this image tell us? It seems that the phone has a metal frame (you can see there is a plastic stripe at the top, which is necessary on metal phones, so that they have better signal reception), and it looks fairly thin. There is also a physical home key (most likely, with a fingerprint scanner embedded in it), and what looks like an infra-red beamer at the top.
Xiaomi Mi 5 rumored specs
For all the rest, the two are expected to share similar specs, here is a quick run-down:
Screen: 5.2-inch display
SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
Platform: Android 6.0 Marhsmallow with MIUI 7.0
Cameras: 16-megapixel rear camera, 8-megapixel selfie cam
Battery: 3,600mAh
Other features: Ultrasonic Fingerprint Scanner
Xiaomi Mi 5 prices
Finally, it is not yet clear what will the price be for the Xiaomi Mi 5. Initial rumors mentioned a price of $380 (2,500 yuan) for the base model and $455 (3,000 yuan) for the more advanced one, but most recently some have suggested that at least one model could be priced at the rather steep $530 (3,500 yuan). All of those are full retail prices, with no subsidies or contract agreements. Let us once again make it clear that those are the prices for China and China only, as the phone will not be sold officially in the United States.
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