After announcing it back in January, wit
mass production due to begin in March,
Xiaomi has finally launched the top-end
Mi Note Pro phablet - making it availabl
to buy in China from May 12 at CNY 329
(approximately Rs. 32,900). Company
CEO Lei Jun, who launched the handset
at an event in Beijing on Wednesday, did
not reveal when the Mi Note Pro would
become available outside the region.
The highlight of the Mi Note Pro is that it
packs an octa-core 64-bit Qualcomm
Snapdragon 810 processor (four Cortex-
A57 cores clocked at 2GHz, and four
Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.5GHz)
alongside 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM and
Adreno 430 GPU. The company also
detailed the performance of the Mi Note
Pro by providing an AnTuTu benchmark
comparison with two other Snapdragon
810-based smartphones, the HTC One
M9 and LG G Flex2 .
Xiaomi revealed some more details abou
the Mi Note Pro than it had announced
the January, such as the rear camera
featuring an f/2.0 lens and Qualcomm
14-bit image processor, and new camer
features such as flash 'suggest', auto-
leveling, DSLR style peak focus indicator
and colour temperature adjustment. Also
revealed was that the Mi Note Pro
features hardware-optimisation for HiFi
audio, specifically flac playback.
The Xiaomi Mi Note Pro features a 5.7-
inch Sharp/JDI display with Sunlight
Display technology and with a QHD
(1440x2560 pixels) resolution offering a
pixel density of 515ppi. The smartphone
runs MIUI6 based on Android 5.0
Lollipop, and comes with 64GB of built-i
storage without expandability via
microSD card. It supports LTE Cat. 9
networks with download speeds up to
450Mbps.
Other specifications of the Xiaomi Mi
Note Pro are identical to the Mi Note
include a 13-megapixel rear camera with
a six-element lens, OIS, a Sony IMX214
CMOS sensor, Qualcomm 14-bit image
processor, and two-tone flash from
Philips, and a 4-megapixel front-camera
with large 2-micron pixels.
Xiaomi also flaunts the rear 3D curved
glass build and a front 2.5D curved
glass design of the phablet. It is backed
by a 3090mAh battery with Quick Charge
2.0 technology, which charges the
handset by 70 percent in an hour. The
company also unveiled the 150-gram Mi
Selfie Stick, priced at CNY 49 (roughly Rs
500).
It is worth noting that Xiaomi on Tuesda
held its first flash sale for the Mi Band
fitness tracker. The wearable was
announced in July last year and went o
sale in August in China. According to the
firm the Mi Band went out of stock in 7
seconds.
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