Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi on Wednesday launched a new Red colour variant of its latest flagship dual camera smartphone, Xiaomi Mi 5X in the Chinese tech market. To recall, the company introduced its latest Xiaomi Mi 5X smartphone in China in July, along with its latest custom UI (user-interface), MIUI 9. The Xiaomi Mi 5X was first launched in China in three body colour options including Gold, Black, and Rose Gold. Now, the Chinese vendor has launched a new Red colour Xiaomi Mi 5X, christened as the “Xiaomi Mi 5X Special Edition” in the company’s homeland, China. With the new Red shade, the Xiaomi Mi 5X will now be available in four attractive body colour options including Red, Gold, Black, and Rose Gold colour options.
Carried a price tag of CNY 1,499 (approximately Rs. 14,300), the new Xiaomi Mi 5X Special Edition is now available for pre-order in China, while the same will be going on sale in China starting November 1 via the company’s official website Mi.com and other offline retail stores across the country. Unfortunately, the company has made no official announcements about the pricing details and availability of the Xiaomi Mi 5X Special Edition for other markets including India. Apart from its paint job, the rest specifications and features are same to same as we have seen in the other existing Xiaomi Mi 5X models or variants.
Design wise, the Xiaomi Mi 5X comes with a full-metal unibody design with metal frame all around, giving it an overall premium look. Latest launch poster revealed that Mi 5X sports a bright Red colour on the back panel and a black shade on the front. The smartphone features three capacitive navigation touch buttons and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner, located just middle of the device. The speaker grille is seen at the bottom edge of the device along with a USB-C type charging port sitting in the middle. The volume rockers and the power/lock button are all placed on the right-hand edge of the device and a 3.5mm audio socket is placed on the very bottom edge of the handset.
Technically speaking, the new Xiaomi Mi 5X comes equipped with a 5.5-inch full-HD LTPS display with a screen resolution of 1080×1920 pixels and a scratch resistance 2.5D curved glass coating on top. Under the hood, the device is powered by a 2.0GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 octa-core processor clubbed with Adreno 506 GPU, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage, which can be further expanded up to 128GB via a microSD card. Talking about its software front, the smartphone runs company’s latest MIUI 9 custom UI skin, based on Google’s Android 7.1.1 Nougat operating system.
In terms of optics, the Xiaomi Mi 5X sports a dual primary camera setup at the rear that comes combined with two 12-megapixel sensors. One camera houses a 12-megapixel sensor with wide angle lens, 4-axis Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS), 1.25-micron pixel sensor and f/2.2 aperture, while another camera comes equipped with a 12-megapixel sensor with telephoto lens for 2x lossless zoom, 1-micron pixel sensor and f/2.6 aperture. The main camera features also include Dual-LED flash module and Portrait Mode for bokeh effects. On the front, the Mi 5X features a 5-megapixel front-facing shooter with real-time beautification for capturing better selfies.
On the connectivity front, the Xiaomi Mi 5X supports dual-SIM dual standby (Micro-SIM + Nano-SIM/microSD), 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 (a/b/g/n/ac), hotspot, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS/A-GPS/GLONASS, IR Blaster, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a USB Type-C port for fast charging and data transfer. On the battery front, the Xiaomi Mi 5X comes packed with a decent 3080mAh battery. Dimensionally, the handset measures 155.4 x 75.8 x 7.3 mm and weighs 165 grams.
