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Chinese growing smartphone company Xiaomi, which was recently in news for poaching Hugo Barra of Google has unveiled its new flagship mobile phone – MiPhone 3 (3rd generation) today at a press conference in Beijing, China.
The new android 4.2.1 powered smartphone features a 5-inch fullHD IPS display with multitouch capacitive touchscreen, NVIDIA Tegra 4 quad-core processor for China Mobile carrier or 2.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset for China Unicom carrier, 13-megapixel rear camera with auto focus ad LED flash, 2-megapixel front-faceing camera, 3050mAh battery, 2GB of RAM for multitasking and other basic smartphone features like NFC, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi etc. Regarding the dimensions – the MiPhone 3 is just 8.1mm thick and weighs only 145 grams.
Xiaomi said in the press conference that the smartphone will be available in 5 color variants – Yellow, blue, silver, white and black. The company also introduced the cover for the mobile phone, which can be used as a stand too.
Xiaomi also revealed the price of MiPhone 3, and it priced the 16GB version for CNY1999 ($327) and 32GB version for and CNY2499 ($408). We can say, the pricing is much better than that of Samsung, Sony & HTC’s flagship phones. Initially, the smartphone will be released to market in October 2013 in China, followed by Hong Kong nd Taiwan. Global release is not announced, but the success of the handsets in Asian countries will decide it’s fate. We are desperately waiting for a hands-on, re you interested in this gadget?
