Indian e-commerce website, Flipkart,took to Twitter to tease the Redmi Note 5, the much anticipated phablet from Xiaomi. Scheduled for a 14th February, Valentine’s Day launch,the Redmi Note 5 is speculated to not differ from the recently launched Redmi 5 Plus, with speculations rife that the Note 5 will just be a rebranded Redmi 5 Plus.
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The video teaser focuses mainly on the display which is confirmed to have an aspect ratio of 18:9. Narrower bezels equal wider perspective and a high PPI count equals better color reproduction. It claims that the Redmi Note 5 will be an all-rounder. The Note 5 will be a mid ranger with specs similar to that of the Redmi 5 Plus.
If that is the case, the specs should be similar of not the same as the 5 Plus. The Redmi 5 Plus sports a full screen display coupled with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 chipset. On the memory front, it sports 4GB of Ramand 64GB of ROM. A 4000mAh battery powers the phone and it runs Miui9 on top of Android Nougat. The launch of the Redmi Note 5 is just two days away. There is no word on the price and availability, but it is expected to go on sale in a couple of hours after the launch on the 14th of February.