Thanks to the super fast folks at shop.gizchina.com I have already received my Xiaomi Mi5, so here is our Xiaomi Mi5 unboxing video.
At this moment in time only the standard version of the Xiaomi Mi5 is available. That means this version of the phone has 3GB RAM, 32GB memory, a curved glass rear and an underclocked 1.8Ghz Snapdragon 820. All that’s fine for me as the phone still as the new display with added LED’s, it also has the 4 axis OIS 16 megapixel rear camera, dual led flash, all new body and new front fingerprint scanner.
It would have been nice if I could have gotten the black version, but again only the white model of the Xiaomi Mi5 is on sale at this time.
In the unboxing video I mention that installing Google Services on the Xiaomi Mi5 should be easy and it is. I just used the usual Xiaomi Google installer and I now have Google Play running, plus all my Google apps with the exception of Gmail which does not want to sync.
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I’ve also found that you do need to physically press the physical home button to first wake the phone before the fingerprint scanner can read your print. As for the physical button itself it is rather ugly.
Xiaomi Mi5 hands on photos
Plenty of people have already asked me to run a few benchmarks on this version of the Xiaomi Mi5 which is what I plan to do next and publish tomorrow so watch this space.
waiting for battery test
That black border just ruins it for me, would much rather have a larger bezel than that.
The two at bottom and top are what bothers me more, I could live with the side ones though.
They bother me all around but at least they are the same width on the sides as on top/bottom. If the width was different it would make it look much cheaper, like they weren’t even able to “trim” that thing right.
Yea the black should be better but I don’t know this phone just doesn’t excite me the way the Mi3 and Mi4 did.
It’s not bad, I just can’t think going below 5.5″ or below 3600 mha battery anymore.
A 5.7″ MI Note with a bigger battery would catch my attention
thats why I decided to wait for Mi note 2. Just cant live without my 5.7″
I am not a fan of the overall design which is from the original Mi Note. Looks like another Meizu or Gionee for me unless the Huawei P9 or OnePlus 3 impresses me.
Just waiting for coupons for Redmi Note 3 Pro to get it. Best phone of the year IMO.
We are still in March :-p
Lot of good stuff will come out.
Note sure if things will come out at the price of the Note 3 Pro.
Look budget phones, I think Redmi 3 is still the best phone for the budget phone category. No one has been able to beat it.
true hence why the “:P” face, but between you and me balco secretly has a love/fetish for elephone products he said and i quote “elephone is #1 and the faulty reviews by people are just a sham”
I agree with you, that black border just ruins it a lot. What a really bad design. Only black color is interesting. Everyone is excited by MI5 but I think MI4S has a much better design.