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Details on the upcoming and highly anticipated Mi5 from Xiaomi have been leaked through Chinese social media site Weibo. Xiaomi has been dominating the China smartphone market in the past two years along with becoming the biggest manufacturer in China and one of the biggest in the world in just a short amount of time.

According to the leak, the Xiaomi Mi5 will feature a 5.2-inch screen, a QualcommSnapdragon 810 processor coupled with 3GB or 4GB of RAM, a 16-megapixel rear camera, and a 3,000mAh battery. There’s also a rumor that the Mi5 may also be equipped with fingerprint ID technology. While the specifications of the Mi5 may not seem that different from its predecessor, the Mi4, it will come with the Snapdragon 810 which is widely considered as the current most powerful smartphone SoC so the performance of the Mi5 is expected to be impressive.

Additionally, a second phone was leaked today, a larger version of the Mi5 called the Mi5 Plus. According to the leak, the Mi5 Plus will feature a 6-inch 2K display with a bezel-less/borderless design as well as 4GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, and a 16-megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilization. No other information on the Mi5 Plus has been released but it should be expected to feature the same processor as the Mi5 as the Snapdragon 810 is the best available chip at the moment.

While the exact date of release of both devices is still unknown, it’s expected that Xiaomi will launch both devices sometime in July as they did with the Mi4 last year.

source:Gizmochina

Xiaomi's 2015 flagship phone Mi5 prototype testing has reportedly reached in its final phase, but the launch has reportedly been delayed.

The company's CEO, Lei Jun, (via official Weibo social network site) posted an image featuring prototypes of legacy Mi-series phones – Mi2S, Mi3, Mi4, Mi Note and all the Redmi Series devices in their prototype state developed by his R&D team.

He emphasised that the company takes consumer experience feedback and build-quality of the devices seriously and to meet the expectations, they build five to six prototypes to before finalising the device for mass production.

This message from Xiaomi chief led many to believe that Mi5 might get launched very soon probably around July, like its predecessor Mi4 in 2014.

Giving further impetus to the speculation, technology blog Gizmo China citing sources claimed that Xiaomi Mi5's design has been finalised.

But this cheering news was short-lived as market analyst Pan Jiutang (via Weibo) revealed that Xiaomi Mi5 launch has been pushed to the fourth quarter of 2015 (around October-December).

It has come to light that Xiaomi has almost identical specifications seen inside the recently launched flagship phablet Mi Note. So in order to avoid sale cannibalisation between the marquee phones, the company is expected to launch Mi5 in the fourth quarter.

Even the rival, Samsung uses the same business model; it leaves minimum six months apart between flagship device series - Galaxy S and Galaxy Note launch date. The company unveils the smartphone series around March-April, whereas the phablet series in September-October.

It is learnt that Xiaomi Mi5 boasts 5.0/5.5-inch QHD (1560x1440p) display and ship with Android 5.0 Lollipop (with latest MIUI), Snapdragon 810 series Octa-core SoC (System on Chip), 3GB/4GB RAM, 20.7mp Sony camera on the rear-side and to impress selfie aficionados, it will be incorporated with feature-rich wide-angle snapper on the front.

As of now, Xiaomi is yet to respond to the speculations. We will bring you more updates on Mi5 as and when the news breaks out.

The Xiaomi Mi4 was launched in July last year and it became the flagship smartphone for the Chinese tech company.

In January 15, Xiaomi officially launched the Mi Note and the Mi Note Pro that were highly touted as the current flagship smartphones of the third largest handset maker in the world next only to Samsung and Apple.

The Mi Note and the Mi Note Pro were the Chinese smartphone maker’s obvious answers to the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus launched by Apple in September last year. So much so that the development of the Xiaomi Mi5 was already put in question.

In fact, following the launching of the Xiaomi Mi Note and the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro in January, there have been rumors that the Chinese manufacturer would already retire its Xiaomi Mi5 product.

From the business standpoint, it would really be illogical for the company to still launch Xiaomi Mi5 with the Mi Note and the Mi Note Pro already around as the product would also compete in the same market.

Given the typical one-year product cycle of flagship devices, the Xiaomi Mi5 was supposed to launch in July this year.

Perhaps that was the plan before the Xiaomi Mi Note and the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro came into the picture. Nowadays, July is off the picture for Xiaomi Mi5.

But the good news from the Chinese tech company is that there would still be a Xiaomi Mi5 that will come out from its end.

Instead of July however, the device, which will most likely become the next flagship smartphone from Xiaomi, will be rolled out towards the fourth quarter of the year. In all likelihood, it will come out before the Holidays and capitalize on the Christmas shopping frenzies all over the world.

Initial reports on the features and specifications of the Xiaomi Mi5 indicate that the device would be powered by either a Snapdragon 805 or Snapdragon 810 chips, both processors are 64-bit chipsets.

But there were also supposed leaked images in the internet of the Xiaomi Mi5 indicating that the device would be running on the less powerful Snapdragon 801 processor and it will only have 2GB of RAM instead of the previously rumored 3GB RAM.

In terms of appearance, the device is rumored to be only 5.1 mm thick and that it actually looks a lot like the iPhone 6 Plus and the Galaxy Note 4. The Xiaomi Mi5 also appears to have stick to the flat screen design although it looks like it was patterned after Apple’s device.

The leaked image of the handset also shows that the logo of Xiaomi is on the top left corner of the phone. The Mi5 also has thinner bezels than its predecessor, the Mi4