Xiaomi Mi 5 smartphone to go on sale again in India on April 13

Xiaomi's recently announced Mi 5 smartphone will be available for customers in India for the second time in a flash sale again on April 13.

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: Xiaomi's recently announced Mi 5 smartphone will be available for purchase in India for the second time in a flash sale again on April 13 (Wednesday).

The Xiaomi Mi 5, the company's latest offering will be up for for flash sale in black, gold and white colours from 2 pm exclusively on Mi.com. for which registrations have already been started.

https://t.co/XNlUhcga5M Register now so that you can buy #Mi5 and 20000mAh #MiPowerBank on 13th April! pic.twitter.com/wptdKCDUOq

— Mi India (@XiaomiIndia) April 7, 2016

Xiaomi had launched the much anticiapted Mi 5 smartphone in India on March 31 at a price of Rs 24,999 only.

The smartphone comes with a 5.15-inch ultra-thin bezel-less 16 LED display with a resolution of 1080 pixels by 1920 pixels at a PPI of 428 pixels-per-inch.

The phone has a 3D-curved glass body is made of Gorilla Glass 4 that makes the phone slimmer and gives the best "hand feel". The front fingerprint scanner unlocks the phone in a blink.

The 129-gram Mi 5, which is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, remains true to the brand`s pricing strategy with 3GB RAM and 32GB onboard memory.

Apart from the latest Adreno 530 GPU for ultimate gaming experience, it has a Kryo quadcore CPU with two of them clocked at 1.8 Ghz and the remaining two at 1.4 Ghz.

The smartphone wears 16-megapixel flat rear camera with dual tone flash, 6P lens, quick focus and 4-axis optical image stabilisation (OIS) and is assisted by a 2-micron pixel 4-megapixel secondary camera for selfies.

The Xiaomi Mi 5 is powered by a 3,000mAh non-removable battery and supports quick charge.

The smartphone covers all LTE brands in India and comes with a VoLTE technology allowing user to make high-quality calls with all supported networks.

Infrared support makes it work as a universal remote for multiple devices including set top boxes and ACs. Mi5 supports full NFC functionality for both reading and writing.

Xiaomi is offering an accidental damage for Rs 499 for a year on the device that runs on MIUI 7 based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow.