Finally, the official information about launching the newest flagship – Xiaomi Mi 5- was announced by Xiaomi company. This news comes already from the CES 2015. According to this confirmtion, Xiaomi will enter the US Market, reported by the Chinese Economic Daily News and Digitime and later confirmed by Forbes. This activity shows the Xiaomi’s ambition to gain US market share. Currently, as you know, Xiaomi is already the third biggest flagship maker in the world, chasing only Apple and Samsung corporation.

If you search carefully the specs of all handsets in current time, enable to say that Xiaomi Mi4 as well as Xiaomi Mi5 will absolutely set new standard. In detail, the Xiaomi Mi5 will be one of the first device which is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Octa Core Processor with the really powerful Adreno 430 GPU, said Sun Chang Xu – an Industrial Analyst. Moreover, the Xiaomi Mi5 will arrive with a huge 5.7 inch 2K screen and fingerprint scanner. Besides that, its phone will also feature a 20.7 MP camera, completely same with Meizu 4 and Meizu 5(rumour news).

This report also said that the Xiaomi Mi5 will be priced stably at 2499 Yuan or 18238 Philippines Peso. It means that it’s a good bargain to buy a new Xiaomi Mi5. However, its handsets will be sported Snapdragon 810 not for sure. Because QualComm the Snapdragon 810 will prepare to ship officially in the first months of 2015. Though we saw the first development handsets with Snapdragon 810 is already on sales. So, mostly we will see the Xiaomi Mi5 with Snapdragon 810 in January already.
“You can certainly call this an acceleration. It’s our mission and our belief that this model should be able to achieve some level of success outside of China.”, said Xiaomi CEO. He emphasized that the mission of Xiaomi is dominating and gaining seriously other markets outside China.

It looks like the next step of Xiaomi – publishing the Xiaomi Mi 5 in January 2015– with Snapdragon 810, a screen of 5.7″, 2K display is really an important step. Xiaomi planed to beat out Apple and Samsung to be the largest maker, we mentioned before. And the most critical things, 408 $ and with all listed specs, this smartphone would be wonderful for the customers and would be a perfect strategy.

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