Another flagship smartphone has been announced at Mobile World Congress and this time it is from Xiaomi. The long rumoured Xiaomi Mi 5 is aimed at the most demanding users and will compete with other flagship phones such as Galaxy S7, G5, Xperia Z5 and others.

It has a metal frame with front and rear glass panels and a physical home button that has a built-in fingerprint scanner. As expected, it features high-end specs, including a 5.15-inch IPS display with 1080p resolution and almost no bezels, Snapdragon 820 SoC, 3 GB or 4 GB of LPDDR4 RAM, up to 128 GB of UFS 2.0 storage and a 3,000 mAh battery.

The camera department has a 16-megapixel rear camera that features two-tone LED flash, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), DTI pixel isolation technology, Spectra image processor, 4-axis optical image stabilization (OIS) and 4K video recording. The front-facing camera has a 4-megapixel front-facing camera with a pixel size of 2 microns.

The rest of the specs include USB Type-C port, Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0, WiFi 802.11ac dual-band, Bluetooth 4.2 and runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow with MIUI 7.

The biggest advantage over the competition is its price tag. The Mi 5 comes in Black, White and Gold colors priced at 1,999 Yuan or around $306 for the 3 GB/32 GB version with 1.8 GHz Snapdragon 820 SoC, 2,299 Yuan or $351 for the version with 3 GB/64 GB and 2.15 GHz Snapdragon 820 and 2,699 Yuan or $410 for the Mi 5 Pro model with 4 GB of RAM, 128 GB of storage and 2.15 GHz Snapdragon 820 SoC. They will go on sale in China on March 1.

Xiaomi Mi 5 specifications

5.15-inch (1920×1080 pixels) Full HD display with curved glass, 95% of the NTSC color gamut, 600 nits brightness

Snapdragon 820 64-bit Quad-Core processor with Adreno 530 GPU

3GB LPDDR4 RAM / 32GB / 64GB (UFS 2.0) internal storage, 4GB LPDDR4 RAM / 128GB (UFS 2.0) internal storage

Android 6.0 Marshmallow with MIUI 7

Dual SIM (nano + nano)

16-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, Sony IMX298 sensor, f/2.0 aperture, PDAF, 4-axis OIS, 4K video recording

4MP front-facing camera wiht 2um pixel size, f/2.0 aperture, 80-degree wide-angle lens

Fingerprint scanner, Infrared sensor

Dimensions: 144.55×69.2×7.25mm; Weight: 129g; Ceramic: 139g

4G LTE with VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac dual-band (MIMO), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, NFC, USB Type-C

3,000mAh (typical) / 2910mAh (minimum) built-in battery with Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0