Xiaomi Mi presents major smartphone Note – Tweakers

The Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi has major smartphone Mi Note Pro announced at a private event. The phone has a 5.7 “LCD and runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 soc. There is also a variant with lower screen and Snapdragon 801.

The Mi Note Pro combines the Snapdragon 810 with four Cortex A57- and four Cortex A53 processor cores on a Adreno 430 GPU and a memory the size of 4GB. The 5.7 “screen is LCD and has a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels.

The cheaper Mi Note runs like the smaller Mi 4 on a Snapdragon SOC-801, with four Krait processor cores at 2.5GHz and an Adreno 330 GPU. The lpddr3 RAM has a size of 3GB. Xiaomi has on both devices of course his own Miui 6 put on the device, based on Android 4.4.

The front camera of the aircraft has a maximum resolution of four megapixels, while the pixels are two microns in size. Therefore it shares some features with the Ultra Pixel camera that HTC has in the back of his One (M7) and One (M8). The camera on the back is like the Mi 4 and include the Nexus 6 a Sony IMX214, with a maximum resolution of thirteen megapixels and optical image stabilization. The phone supports 4G and dualsim. The device has a 3000mAh battery.

Note Mi phones have front and rear Gorilla Glass, and a metal frame attached to the side. As such, the design in line with that of the Mi 4, but now the sides have the same color as the front and back. Moreover, the sides of the glass on the screen are slightly rounded, something that manufacturers do for several years at smartphones and known as “2.5D glass. The phone is 6,95mm thick and measure 15,5×7,7cm. That is 74.4 percent of the surface of the front screen.

The Mi discs comes in 16GB variation in China for 2299 yuan, converted around 315 euros. The 64GB version is priced at 2799 yuan, converted 384 euros. It will probably not be able to buy the phone for that money in the Netherlands. By margins for webshops and import taxes that price is often higher. The Pro version will cost 3299 yuan, converted 452 euros. The regular discs in late January in China, the Pro version in March.