Xiaomi today announced the Mi 5C - a phone powered by the company's first chipset, called Pinecone (pine cone in Greek).
The Mi 5C appears to be a cheaper, less powerful device than last year's excellent Mi 5. The phone will feature a 5.15-inch display, 3GB of RAM, a rear camera at 12-megapixel and a battery in 2,860mAh.
Let's remind you that the Mi 5 features 4GB RAM, 16-megapixel rear camera, and 3.000mAh battery.
But Mi 5C comes with a very interesting price: It will cost 220 dollars, and it will originally be released in China 3 March.
The device as mentioned before has the Xiaomi Pinecone chipset, which comes with a Octa-core Surge S1 processor.
The main features of Mi 5C:
5,15 inch screen
Dimensions 5.6 × 2.7 × 0.27 inches (144.4 × 70.7 × 7.1mm)
Octa-core Surge S1 processor
12 megapixel camera back, 8 megapixel camera at the front
RAM 3GB
64GB storage space
2,860mAh non-detachable battery
Android 7.1 Nougat
Fingerprint Reader
As with the previous ones phones and it will run MIUI, a customized version of Android. It is based on Android 7.1 Nougat.
Xiaomi becomes the third manufacturer to create its own processors after Apple and Huawei. In theory the devices would cost less to manufacture, allowing the company to sell them at a lower cost.
The MI 5C will be sold (originally) exclusively in China.
