Xiaomi has finally unveiled its tough 2015 flagship competitor in China earlier today and will go on sale on May 12 in China first, GSM Arena reported.
The Xiaomi Mi Note Pro offers high-end specs at par from the Apple iPhone 6 to Samsung's Galaxy S6, but bears a price tag of almost half of these flagships. Thus, it features stunning camera, powerful processor and other notable functionalitiesare all revealed on Hugo Barra's Facebook post.
To start with, the Xioami Mi Note Pro has a "unique 3D curved glass back and a 2.5D curved glass on the front side of the device" and pulls of an incredible screen resolution of 2K Sharp JDI display with 515ppi and offers Sunlight Display technology on its 5.7inch screen display.
Under the hood, the Mi Note Pro is powered by a Snapdragon 810 chipset which the company claims that it has higher Antutu benchmarking score compared to other flagships with the same chipset.
According to IB Times, Xiaomi Mi Note Pro has 63,424 score on AnTuTu while HTC and LG handsets have 57,648 and 56,266 respectively.
It Snapdragon 810 chipset is supported by a 4GB LPDDR4 RAM, which Xiaomi said it "consume less power and deliver high performance."
The Xiaomi Mi Note Pro has a 64GB on board storage and does not support microSD expansion. It is also supported by a 3090 mAh battery.
Hugo Barra recently explained that Xiaomi has ditched the microSD support to its line of smartphones, because they don't want to risk the "battery capacity, ergonomics, and appearance" of their smartphones, Engadget. reported.
"You think you're buying like a Kingston or a SanDisk but you're actually not, and they're extremely poor quality, they're slow, they sometimes just stop working, and it gives people huge number of issues, apps crashing all the time, users losing data, a lot of basically complaints and customer frustration," Hugo Barra explained
"It's gonna be a while before you finally accept that maybe the reason why it's not performing is because you put in an SD card, right? You're gonna blame the phone, you're gonna blame the manufacturer, you're gonna shout and scream and try to get it fixed, so many different ways until you say, 'Actually, let me just take the SD card out and see what happens.'"
Camera-wise, the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro boasts a 13MP Sony IMX214 CMOS camera on its front with 6-element f/2.0 lens and Qualcomm 14-bit image processor.
While its front has 4MP front camera with large 2-micron pixels which can capture great photos in low light condition.
