Guess what people ? Xiaomi MI 5 the latest and most awaited phone of Xiaomi has just launched for RS 24999. I’ll be briefing you about the new beast. It is the new successor of MI 4 and look similar to Samsung Galaxy S7. The hardware on MI5 surpasses the LG G5. 

MI5 out performs all of its competitors. We will have a quick look on the specs of Xiaomi MI5 

Mi5 and Galaxy S7 looks the same not exactly same but yeah! Same. Both screen and the back of the phone is scratch resistant upto an extent. The outer edge at the front is sharp and feels cuty in hand but the almost frame-less display looks good. 

Mi5’s display is quite promising and convincing the resolution is absolutely perfect for the day and night usage you will not be facing problems while in the sun or while you are indoor. The colors are rich and deep and the pictures and videos look realistic. 

The display is 5.15inch full HD LCD unit. The maximum brightness can be increased up to 600 CD/m2. You have a perfect control over the brightness of the smartphone. This beast runs on the Qualcomm’s latest snapdragon 820 chipset and its hexgon subunit. Display offers great  color and sharp details.   

Primary camera is 16 MegaPixel and secondary camera is 4 UltraPixel .The camera doesn’t have a previously rumored aperture of f/1.6, but rather an ordinary f/2.0. optical image stabilizer works using four axles; two rotational and two transversal. 

These compensate for displacements to the smartphone housing. What that means is when your hands move, or the subject of your photo, you shouldn’t end up with blurry photos. In practice, the stabilizer proves to be an extraordinary selling point, ensuring exceptionally good video, making the Mi 5 one of the best multimedia smartphones that you can currently buy. 

Mi5 has 3000MAH of battery which is powerfull enough to get you through your day by charging it once . the battery perk of this phone is it charges pretty fast. If you charge MI 5 for 1 hour only it will be enough for the day. 

Elite x3 Phablet will be available in Asia Pacific and Japan in September this year. HP Elite x3 bridges the gap between laptop and phone. The price of Elite x3 device is yet to be announced.

It enables frictionless multi-screen transitions between a phone and a desktop PC. The device sports 8MP front camera and 16MP rear camera.

For users' security, the device has both a fingerprint reader and an iris recognition camera, offering biometric security as part of Window's biometric Hello framework.

The Elite x3 offers a unique computing experience by leveraging the power of the Snapdragon 820 processor, the optional HP Desk Dock and the optional Lap Dock, allowing the device to let people work on their own terms no matter where the locale. Users can also enjoy easier, faster charging with Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 technology.

It includes a DisplayPort for external monitor support, two USB-A and a USB-C connection for business continuity and wired Ethernet to seamlessly scale user's productivity at their desk.

It’s become increasingly obvious in recent times that if you want to look for high-powered smartphones in the Android market at competitive prices, you have to look towards China. Xiaomi made a splash at MWC with the launch of its high-end Mi 5 that costs half what an S7 Edge might cost. Meanwhile, in China, Vivo has launched the Xplay 5 and Xplay 5 Elite, the latter of which boasts an enormous 6GB RAM.

Other specs of the Xplay 5 Elite are just as impressive as the amount of memory. Vivo opted for the Snapdragon 820 processor, Qualcomm’s latest flagship chipset which you’ll also find in the LG G5, Xiaomi Mi 5 and some versions of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. Clearly then, the Elite model from Vivo’s latest range is competing head-on with the big name manufacturers’ flagship smartphones.

On the front is a large dual-curved 5.43-inch Super AMOLED display boasting Quad HD resolution (like the S7 Edge), while inside is a beefy 128GB of internal storage. Sadly, there’s no option to expand, but you likely won’t need to with that much capacity. It also has a 16MP Sony camera sensor on the back with phase-detection autofocus and a dual-tone LED flash. It has a fingerprint sensor, 8MP front camera and a large 3,600mAh battery.

Despite not having the ‘Elite’ moniker, the regular Xplay 5 is virtually as impressive as the premium model. It has the same 5.43-inch QHD display, the same design and camera setup. The differences are inside, where it hosts a Snapdragon 652 processor paired with 4GB RAM and an equally generous 128GB storage.

This beast of a phone is the more powerful of the two models launched today. The Xplay 5 Elite os features a metal unibody and uses the best in the industry, Gorilla Glass 4 sheets to shield the dual-curved 5.43″ Super AMOLED Quad HD screen. The phone is comes packing a Snapdragon 820 chipset with what is already being looked at as borderline crazy, 6GB of RAM.

The Xplay 5 Elite will skip the memory card slot and will come equipped with 128GB flash storage out of the box.The camera setup on the phone boasts of the powerful 16-MP (Sony IMX298) snapper with phase-detection AF and dual-tone LED flash at the back and an 8-MP camera at the front.The Xplay 5 Elite is a dual-SIM ready, supports LTE networks, Hi-Fi 3.0 (2*ES9028+OPA1612), and comes with a 3,600 mAh battery along with a fingerprint scanner on the back.

The Xplay 5 Elite comes with the company’s Funtouch launcher on top of  Android 5.1 Lollipop. It also supports split-screen multitasking and will launch on March 8 in China and for a cool price of CNY 4,288 (Approx Rs 44,000)


The VIVO Xplay 5 is the younger sibling of the Elite model which was earlier in benchmark leaks was thought to be a “Lite” variant of the Xplay 5. It comes with the same design of the Elite and features a 5.43″ Super AMOLED QHD display, along with the same camera setup, and 128GB storage.

The phone though as a cost cutting measure uses an inferior chipset coming equipped with the Snapdragon 652, and also cuts down on the RAM to 4GB. The Hi-Fi chip configuration is also of a different kind – CS4395+AD45257.

Pricing for the VIVO Xplay 5 will has been set marginally below the Elite and it will launch in China on March 8 for CNY 3,698 (Approx Rs 38,000)

Qualcomm has introduced the Snapdragon 820 , Soc during the MWC earlier today the company has finally launched the most hyped and most anticipated Snapdragon 820Soc with Adreno 530 Graphical processing unit. The chipset is said to be using Qualcomm’s custom 64-bit based ARMv8-based Qualcomm Kryo CPU and FinFET process node.  Qualcomm will be using the Adreno 530 GPU for the chipset which will offer 40% immerse graphics and is said to compute the power usage capabilities than the Adreno 430 GPU.

The chipset has support up to 2.2GHz 64-bit based Quad Core Kyro CPU and comes with Qualcomm Adreno 530 GPU, Up to OpenGL ES 3.1+. The chipset is said to be faster and powerful than last years Snapdragon 810 chipset, the chipset efficiency might result in great battery life overall. Connectivity of the chipset supports Cat.12 LTE downloads with 600MBPS and Cat.13 uploads with 150MBPS. The Wifi Connectivity of the chipset support 2×2 MU-MIMO 802.11ac which is the fastest available in today world but you will be needing a wireless router with MU-MIMO support which are not available that easy but we can surely expect in future.

Qualcomm has introduced the Snapdragon 820Soc during the MWC earlier today the company has finally launched the most hyped and most anticipated Snapdragon 820Soc with Adreno 530 Graphical processing unit. The chipset is said to be using Qualcomm’s custom 64-bit based ARMv8-based Qualcomm Kryo CPU and FinFET process node.  Qualcomm will be using the Adreno 530 GPU for the chipset which will offer 40% immerse graphics and is said to compute the power usage capabilities than the Adreno 430 GPU.

The chipset has support up to 2.2GHz 64-bit based Quad Core Kyro CPU and comes with Qualcomm Adreno 530 GPU, Up to OpenGL ES 3.1+. The chipset is said to be faster and powerful than last years Snapdragon 810 chipset, the chipset efficiency might result in great battery life overall. Connectivity of the chipset supports Cat.12 LTE downloads with 600MBPS and Cat.13 uploads with 150MBPS. The Wifi Connectivity of the chipset support 2×2 MU-MIMO 802.11ac which is the fastest available in today world but you will be needing a wireless router with MU-MIMO support which are not available that easy but we can surely expect in future.

Snapdragon 820 provides support for 4K display and the camera sensor can go up to 23-megapixel and as for the storage goes, the chipset works with UFS 2.0 or eMMC 5.1 flash storage, and LPDDR4 dual channel Ram memory. Qualcomm’s Quick charging 3.0 that was introduced earlier is also supported. Though the chipset is now official we can expect device running SD 820 in the coming year only.

The mobile world might be talking about the newly-launched Snapdragon 820, powering the latest devices like the LG G5 and some variants of the Samsung Galaxy S7, but today Qualcomm made the promise of real desktop-rivalling power in its next-gen Snapdragon chipset.


There's a big divide in virtual reality devices at the moment. There are mobile devices powered by your smartphone, like Samsung's Gear VR, and then there's desktop solution, like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

The former is compact and mobile, using the power of a smartphone chipset to power the experience, the latter connected to a desktop computer.

Talking about HTC Vive, Chet Faliszek from Valve told us that he expected it to be tethered "for a long time", saying that you needed dual streams of 90fps content heading to the displays for each eye and that an untethered solution couldn't deliver that. Most smartphone displays run at 60fps.

Qualcomm today claimed that they would be able to cut the umbilical to the desktop computer with next-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon hardware.

Talking in a Q&A session at the opening of Mobile World Congress 2016, Steve Mollenkopf, Qualcomm CEO, said that "next-gen snapdragon will bring a lot of desktop type scenarios in mobile devices," and that Qualcomm recognised that in many cases, GPU enhancement was more important that CPU.

He continued, saying that a system on chip, i.e., like a Snapdragon chipset, has an advantage because it can more easily synchronise audio and video, something that's important for an immersive VR experience.

"We see no limitation," said Christiano Amon, executive vice president, Qualcomm.

However, today's top-tier virtual reality system, like HTC Vive, isn't necessarily the end point for VR. Qualcomm might be able to power a similar system with its next-gen mobile hardware, but VR will probably keep moving apace.