Xiaomi’s first phone to feature a home button might have it removed in its update coming soon.
The rumour mill is churning and people are talking about the Xiaomi Mi5S, an updated version of the current Xiaomi Mi5 but with a faster Snapdragon 821 chipset, or so we though.
Originally it was believed that the only update on the Mi5s would be a faster chipset, but today a Weibo user has revealed that their might be a physical and security upgrade coming too.
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Apparently Xiaomi are planning to remove the physical home button on the Xiaomi Mi5s, which incidentally houses the fingerprint scanner, and place the security measure “Under Glass” using new ultrasonic technology from partners Qualcomm.
With no physical button, the Xiaomi Mi5S is set to be a much more attractive looking phone from a virtual standpoint, and may even be enough of an upgrade to tempt current Mi5 owners over to the new device.
Wow under the screen?
That will be a stunning phone. let us wait for it here and admire.
Under the glass,means same position just no button.
Like this one http://www.synaptics.com/company/news/FS4500-glass-button-fingerprint-sensor
But likely this is fake, Xiaomi using Qualcomm fingerprint and Meizu using Exynos are leaks we see every few weeks.
Do it. The Mi5 has the ugliest home button I’ve ever seen. Even the Zuk Z1 was better.
Add a microSD slot and OiS that actually works with video and it becomes a decent device.
Guess the hundreds of millions that got a higher res phone in the last 3 cycles, were not informed about that.
Those People dont buy it for the resolution..those are the same peopel that buy oppo phones..it looks nice in the store and works 🙂
while i get with my phone 6hours SoT per day a friend had with his note 7 just 4 hours and that seems to be the overall picture…
That’s total BS.
You can have good battery life with 1440p, many 1080p screens worse in power.
You always have hot news, so do you have some news for us about Mi note 2? Like price tag?
Most rumors are fake so hard to say if anything about that device is accurate.
The Redmi 4 seems to be imminent.
So they do but can you blame anyone bout asking for band 20 when Hugo Barra presented mi5 on the mobile congress in Spain to gain more interest? Many chinese phones do have band 20 so dont see why xiaomi skips this if they wanna grow worldwide…
If they limit themselves to the over-saturated Chinese market that is a recipe for death.
The Chinese market is matured, if Xiaomi wants any chance of future growth they need to start thinking outside of China. Their India launch has been a complete disaster due to failed product launches like Mi4i and the refusal to work out a deal with Ericsson. Xiaomi’s competitors are all capitalizing on the US and European markets for future growth.