Last week I’ve got this Xiaomi Mi5s 3GB RAM and 64GB ROM. So here is our Xiaomi mi5s review and mi5 vs mi5 pro comparison of these two great smartphones.
Xiaomi mi5s pro unboxing
The Mi5s is really well crafted device but lets see how it is next to Mi5 Pro
Technical specification:
Xiaomi Mi5s |
XiaoMi Mi5 Pro |
Display: 5.15 inch, 1920 x 1080 FHD screen CPU: Snapdragon 821 Quad Core 2.15GHz GPU: Adreno 530 System: MIUI 8 RAM + ROM: 3GB RAM + 64GB ROM Rear Camera: 12.0MP Sony IMX378 sensor with PDAF and dual-tone flash light Front Camera: 4.0MP with f/2.0 aperture front camera Front Fingerprint Sensor: Ultrasonic Full featured NFC: Sensor: Accelerometer, Ambient Light Sensor, E-Compass, Gyroscope, Hall Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Barometer Feature: GPS / A-GPS / Glonass / Beidou / Quick Charge 3.0/ OTA Battery: 3100mAh Li-Ion |
Display: 5.15 inch, 1920 x 1080 Pixel, 428 PPI CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 64bit Quad Core GPU: Adreno 530 System: MIUI 8 ( Based on Android 6.0 ) RAM + ROM: 4GB RAM + 128GB ROM Rear Camera: Sony IMX298 sensor, 16MP 4-axis OIS camera, with PDAF and DTI technology Front Camera: 2µm-pixel 4MP camera Front Fingerprint Sensor Type-C: USB Type-C adopts thinner design Full featured NFC: Sensor: Infrared sensor, Light sensor, G-sensor, Proximity sensor, Hall Sensor, Gyroscope, Electronic Compass, Accelerometer and Barometer Battery: 3200mAh Li-Ion Bluetooth: 4.2 Features: GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Quick Charge 3.0, 3D Ceramic Body Product size: 14.46 x 6.92 x 0.73 cm Product weight: 0.139 kg SIM Card: Dual SIM dual standby. Dual Nano Cards Network: 2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz 3G: WCDMA 850/900/1900/2100MHz 4G: FDD-LTE 1800/2100/2600MHz |
As you can see this baby has the latest Qualcomm 821.
It’s clocked on 2.15GHz which is the same as 820.
Luckily I have a peace of Xiaomi Mi 5 Pro (4GB RAM/ 128GB ROM).
So lets first compare the design of the both flagships.
The new Mi5s has metal back which doesn’t leave any fingerprints unlike Mi5 which has ceramic back.
In other side the “old” Mi5 has really great design.
Holding the phone in hand gives you some premium phone feeling.
Also it’s little thinner then Mi5s.
But every time I see great designed phones I’m thinking – why they used so expensive materials when everybody use a case and cant actually enjoy the design?
Anyway it’s up to everyone to have an opinion
So lets how the both phones performs.
They run latest MIUI 8 with Android 6.0.1.
As I already mentioned Mi5S has 3GB of RAM and 64GB of ROM vs Mi5 Pro 4GB/128GB.
Xiaomi mi5 vs mi5s Connectivity
Both Mi5 and Mi 5s supports Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot. I’ve made some speed test using my Xiaomi Mi router 3g and both 2,4 and 5G speeds is close to high end! You can read my full Xiaomi mi router 3g review to see this great router.
Both phones also support 4.2, A2DP, LE.
I ran some benchmarks to check the performance.
And here is the results:
Also you can see my video running Antutu test here:
Antutu mi5 vs mi5 pro
Geekbench 4 mi5 vs mi5 pro
As you can from the test the both phones are almost identical.
Only the boot/reboot of Mi5 Pro is much slower.
But seriously, who will reboot these beasts often?
So the performance is almost the same, so lets test the cameras.
Mi5S has 12MPx Sony sensor and Mi5 Pro has 16MPx.
Check the images I made (Click on the pics for full image).
Xiaomi Mi5s vs Mi5 Pro full light
Xiaomi Mi5s vs Mi5 Pro flash light
Xiaomi Mi5s vs Mi5 Pro low light
As you again can see the are almost identical too!
Here is some selfies taken with Mi5s
The weather dint allow me to make some outside images. Sorry for that.
I test video quality too and for my surprise the video is great even in low light!
Now the battery test.
Again the both phones support Quick Charge 3.0 (QC 3.0).
So here is the charging xiaomi mi5s test:
22:18 – 0 – 30% – 17min
22:35 – 0 – 50% – 27min (lol)
22:45 – 0 – 75% – 45min
23:03 – 0 – 90% – 1h
23:18 – 0 – 100% – 1h 27min
23:45 – 100
50% for 27min for 3100mAh is really impressed!
About battery life – I used the phone for 2 days and it still has 15% battery.
Now is the time for audio tests.
I played different types of music trough air-speaker and with headphones on both phones and they perform really nice.
Read also: Xiaomi wifi router 3g review
I cant decide which phone is better.
Mi5s lack of infrared sensor but has metal back.
Mi5 Pro is lighter but it’s fragile.
So I leave you to dice which one do you want.
Both phone are great!
Price and availability
You can buy
Xiaomi Mi5s 3GB/64GB HERE
or
Xiaomi Mi5s 4GB/128GB HERE
or
Xiaomi Mi5 3GB/64GB HERE
or
Xiaomi Mi5 Pro 4GB/128GB HERE