Xiaomi Mi 5 aka Gemini: Snapdragon 820, Fingerprint Scanner And More [Rumor Roundup]

By Vijaykumar

| Updated: Monday, November 23, 2015, 12:33 [IST]

Xiaomi has recently tweeted images, which teased the upcoming Redmi Note 2 Pro featuring a metallic build and fingerprint scanner and another seems to be the successor of the Mi Pad. The tweet also hinted that both smartphones are scheduled to launch on November 24.

Meanwhile, the company has been in news for its upcoming flagship smartphone - the Mi 5. The smartphone has been leaked for a quite sometime now. A leaked image on, Chinese social networking site, Weibo shows that the Mi 5 to have a curved glass back similar to the Samsung Galaxy Note 5.

The Mi 5 is highly speculated and rumored to features fingerprint scanner, Snapdragon 820 processor and much more. Here are the rumors and leaks of the much speculated Xiaomi Mi 5, take a look at the slider below.

Xiaomi Mi 5

Xiaomi Mi 5 is rumored to have 5.2 inch QHD display with 1440x2560 pixels resolution. The smartphone to have 2K display and will come with Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection.

Xiaomi Mi 5

Weibo user by the name @KJuma, has leaked an image of the rumored smartphone showing the back of the device. The leaked image clearly show that the smartphone will come with a curved back on both sides similar to the Galaxy Note 5

Xiaomi Mi 5

The Xiaomi Mi 5 is rumored to be powered by Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 820 SoC and paired with 3GB of RAM and Adreno 530 GPU. The Mi 5 will be among the first few smartphones to be powered by Snapdragon 820 SoC.

Xiaomi Mi 5

The fingerprint scanner in smartphones are getting popular these days. As per the teaser image, Xiaomi's upcoming Redmi Note 2 Pro will be the first smartphone by the company to have fingerprint scanner on board. Well, the company's next flagship, Mi 5, will be equipped with fingerprint scanner. Unfortunately, there are no details about how the fingerprint scanner will work on the handset.

Xiaomi Mi 5

There is much speculation that the Mi 5 will be equipped with a 16 megapixel primary camera and an 8 megapixel front-facing camera.

Xiaomi Mi 5

Xiaomi's interface, MIUI, is considered as one of the best mobile users interface. The rumored Mi 5 is expected to run on the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop with the latest MIUI 7 on top. But with the latest leak of benchmark test, the smartphone will have Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box.

Xiaomi Mi 5

The rumored Mi 5 will come with in two models, just like the current flagship Mi 4. The Mi 5 will be featuring a 16GB and 64GB of internal memory and might be come with option to expand memory.

Xiaomi Mi 5

Following the trend of Mi 4, the next flagship smartphone will pack a non-removable 3,000mAh battery.

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Xiaomi device with codename "gemini" has been spotted on Geekbench's benchmarking site, giving us a look at its hardware specifications. Going by the specification details revealed by the benchmarking suite, this mysterious Xioami smartphone seem to be flagship-level smartphone with high-end features.

Xiaomi Mi 5

The benchmarks result shows that Xiaomi Gemini has scored 4762 on multi core, which shows that the phone will be a powerful performer, but not the best out there.