While the Xiaomi Mi5 was wowing us here in Barcelona, the Chinese press got their hands on the all new Xiaomi Mi4S.
Not present in Barcelona was the new Xiaomi Mi4S, this new device from Xiaomi is an update of the original Mi4, retaining the same 5-inch FHD form factor, but with a new alloy and dual glass design.
The dual glass panels come in white, black, pink or gold with the CNC alloy chassis getting matching silver, grey or gold fishes. Materials isn’t the only external change as the rear of the phone features a round fingerprint scanner similar to that found on the back of the all alloy Redmi Note 3 Pro.
A 16 mega-pixel F2.0 camera with PDAF is specced on the rear, which sounds like the same spec as the Mi5 but without OIS, The front camera is an 8 mega-pixel unit also with F2.0 aperture.
Update: seems the camera specs were a little mixed up and the Mi4s has a 13 mega-pixel camera not a 16 mega-pixel. We need to also confirm the aperture and front camera details.
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Specification changes continue with a 6 core Snapdragon 808 chipset, 3GB RAM, 64GB EMMC 5.0 memory, and even micro SD to boot (or dual SIM cards).
Xiaomi have even found time to boost the battery capacity to 3260mAh which is charged for USB Type 2 and Fast Charge 2.0.
The Mi4S will support all Chinese networks out of the box and will also include VoLTE. The launch date is the 1st March (the same as the Mi5) with pricing being a very competitive 1699 Yuan.
Look amazing to me and it is Great on the paper at least. i will wait for a ful review to see how does that battery perform.but are you sure it has 16 mp and 8 mp instead of 13/5 ? I have a doubt about that.
well im just waiting to see what vivo has to offer, will oppo release anything else too later on?
Nothing from Oppo for MWC other than the charge and camera tech. Xplay 5 looks like its going to be the most interesting
nah. thanks. I’m infinitely disappointed in Ciao-mi. Maybe I will have a change of mind but not now.
Actually not a bad phone at all.
I was thinking the same… beats my OnePlus out of the water (and people complain!), while it means significant saves. This ‘super-mid range’ phones are winning my heart. Just can’t justify the premium any longer.
If it only supported 800MHz LTE. 🙁 I don’t understand why they do it. People were able to unlock the frequencies on some Xiaomi phones. The HW can support it but it is blocked in SW.
That’s what I expected mi4c to be.
Very true, but price positioning is strange. Way too close to Mi5.
On the other hand, maybe that’s it – it’s close to Mi5 just to keep low profile and just so customers are not dragged away from Mi5, later they can offer interesting discounts…