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Mi 5c is the first smartphone to use Xiaomi's own chipset
After wowing the crowd with the gorgeous Mi MIX last October, Xiaomi is now back with a more humble phone but with a twist. The new Mi 5c is the first smartphone to carry Xiaomi's very own chipset, the octa-core Surge S1, and it's hitting the Chinese mid-range market with a price of 1,499 yuan or about $220 on March 3rd. Much like its earlier variants, the Mi 5c features a 5.15-inch 1080p display with 94.4-percent NTSC gamut and 550 nit brightness. It comes with 3GB of LPDDR3 RAM plus 64GB of eMMC 5.0 storage, along with a front-facing fingerprint reader, dual-Nano SIM slots and China Mobile radio with VoLTE support.
Xiaomi to announce its 'Pinecone' mobile chipset this month
Following reports from earlier this month, today Xiaomi confirmed on Weibo that it will be announcing its very own mobile chipset, named after its subsidiary "Pinecone," in Beijing on February 28th. Little else is mentioned, but rumors going as far back as October are pointing to a Mi 5c aka "Meri" as the first device to carry this chip. Multiple Geekbench results suggest that the phone features an octa-core processor, 3GB of RAM and runs on Android 7.1.1 (even though the leaked prototypes still show Android 6.0).
