Xiaomi will release many new products this year, besides flagship smartphones, they will release new product in redmi series with cost-effectiveness. Previously, there was news about Redmi 5, right now the more powerful Redmi Note 5 has been unveiled, compared with previous products, this smartphone will have more powerful performance.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 will continue to use 5.5 inch large screen with 1080P resolution, which is the most popular screen configuration, it adopts dual camera, 8MP front and 16MP back, no dual rear camera, as for a 150usd budget smartphone, dual rear camera is not necessary, one reason is to control cost, the other is that the manufacturers have not made good optimization on dual rear camera.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 will still use fingerprint scanner on the back, its processor will use Snapdragon 660, RAM 4GB, as you know Snapdragon 660 processor is the most excellent mid-range flagship one, so it will be popular to use on Redmi series. But the price of this kind of smartphones will also increase, if Xiaomi still insists on selling redmi note 5 at 1,199 yuan, $200, it means the lower version of Redmi Note 5 doesn’t use Snapdragon 660, so the advanced version will use Snapdragon 660.