Fancy 8GB RAM in your phone, with the Snapdragon 830 it might be possible

The Mi5 most definitely will be equipped with the Snapdragon 820. Qualcomm revealed that the SD820 phones will be available on the market at Q1 2016. So February is a good guess for the first SD820 handsets. Mi5 might be among the first adopters of it, moreover Xiaomi has not released a real high-end device for a long long time. They need it soon.

But this year Xiaomi was the first announced a SD810 phone if I remember right, but it’s actual launch came many months later and other brands released their own SD810 devices before Mi Note Pro.

About the price, usual price for the Mi flagships was starting from 1999 yuan ($320) and 2499 yuan ($400) for the 64GB model. Keep in mind yuan lost its value a bit this year.

This year I’m involved some heated debates here about the prices of new Xiaomi phones. For an example Mi Note Pro 64GB announced with 3299 yuan price tag which was way above Xiaomi’s traditional flagship price range. Before its actual launch price dropped to 2999 yuan.

At first half of the year new Xiaomi phones priced unwisely IMO, but at second half I think they recognized their mistake. Mi4c, Redmi Note 2 and now Redmi Note 3 is great, cost wise.

So I’m more optimistic about upcoming Mi5’s price now. Mi5 with cheaper than 1999 yuan is unlikely, though you can never know.

They have released Redmi Note 2 and Redmi Note 3 cheaper than original Redmi Note. They can make a cheaper variant of Mi5 with Helio X20 and/or some other different components.

16GB base model without external memory won’t work for high-end devices anymore IMO. If they are smart enough they won’t come out with it.

Assuming its starting point will be 1999 yuan, until a couple of months after its initial release reseller prices will be around $400 at least I guess hence strong demand and weak supply.

Traditionally Redmi is cheaper and slower than Redmi Note counterpart. If there gonna be a Redmi 3, that rumored Helio X12 won’t be in it. Moreover I’m not sure there is a dire need for Redmi 3 right now.

Starting price of the Redmi Note 2 is the same with the original Redmi and Redmi 1s. Of course its in a smaller form factor, but I’m not sure that the size is a major selling point for Chinese Redmi purchasers.

It’s a hard question to answer what I would do if I were you. Mi5 likely gonna be expensive for your budget. You have doubts about the size of the Redmi Note 3 too as I understand. Mi 4c seems a safer bet for you to me.