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Finally, Xiaomi has launched the new smartphone, Mi 4i, at the **‘Global Mi phone premiere’** event taking place in New Delhi. The company has been all along teasing us with ‘i is coming’ hinting at the launch of the Mi 4i. The Mi 4i is priced at Rs 12,999 and the company has also launched the Mi Band at Rs 999. From taking a dig at Apple to clicking a group selfie with the crowd, here’s what happened at Xiaomi’s Global Mi phone premiere event.
Xiaomi Mi 4i event as it happened: Priced at Rs 12,999, the smartphone sports 5-inch display, 13MP camera
Xiaomi Mi 4i event as it happened: Priced at Rs 12,999, the smartphone sports 5-inch display, 13MP camera
tech2 News Staff
• April 24, 2015, 08:51:16 IST
Catch all the action at the Xiaomi’s Global Mi phone premiere event here.
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April 23, 2015, 17:32:43 (IST)
The Mi Band is priced at Rs 999.
April 23, 2015, 17:32:09 (IST)
With the Mi band, users can unlock their smartphones and tablets too.
April 23, 2015, 17:30:51 (IST)
Barra also announced the Mi Band at the event as well. Will work with iOS and Android.
April 23, 2015, 17:28:37 (IST)
Goes on sale on April 30. Registrations start at 8PM on Flipkart. It will be available across all channels later including the Mi India site.
April 23, 2015, 17:27:03 (IST)
Finally, the Mi 4i is priced at Rs 12,999
April 23, 2015, 17:25:46 (IST)
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April 23, 2015, 17:22:21 (IST)
Barra takes a dig at Apple with the company’s quality test that ensures Xiaomi devices don’t bend when placed in your pockets.
April 23, 2015, 17:20:57 (IST)
Blown up view of the Mi 4i.
April 23, 2015, 17:19:06 (IST)
April 23, 2015, 17:18:19 (IST)
Barra plays a video showing how Mi devices go through rigorous tests at Foxconn
April 23, 2015, 17:16:02 (IST)
Now, everyone is eager to know the pricing.
April 23, 2015, 17:15:06 (IST)
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April 23, 2015, 17:12:51 (IST)
Dual micro-SIM and dual standby support
April 23, 2015, 17:11:38 (IST)
On the software side, it also comes with support for more languages now.
April 23, 2015, 17:10:29 (IST)
It will feature Visual IVR to MIUI to bypass those long IVR calls by giving you a text output of preset options.
April 23, 2015, 17:08:34 (IST)
It runs Android Lollipop based MI UI 6
April 23, 2015, 17:07:55 (IST)
Then, there’s 2GB RAM and 16GB storage
April 23, 2015, 17:07:26 (IST)
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April 23, 2015, 17:05:11 (IST)
It comes with four performance cores at 1.7 GHz, and four power saving cores at 1.1 GHz. It has been designed by Qualcomm India.
April 23, 2015, 17:03:47 (IST)
Now, the performance, the Mi 4i comes with second generation octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor
April 23, 2015, 17:00:58 (IST)
The Mi 4i will come with improved HDR feature
April 23, 2015, 16:59:24 (IST)
April 23, 2015, 16:57:50 (IST)
Barra demos the feature by taking a group selfie
April 23, 2015, 16:56:44 (IST)
Then there’s the selfie timer feature
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April 23, 2015, 16:56:22 (IST)
Barra talks about the Beautify feature which comes with tools like wrinkle remover, skin smoothening and so on, especially for selfies
April 23, 2015, 16:54:58 (IST)
It also gets a 5MP front camera
April 23, 2015, 16:54:33 (IST)
Mi 4i comes with a dual tone flash, torch feature for low light focusing
April 23, 2015, 16:53:41 (IST)
The Mi 4i gets a 13-megapixel camera with f/2.0 aperture and dual tone flash.
April 23, 2015, 16:52:24 (IST)
The summary of the display before that.
April 23, 2015, 16:51:06 (IST)
Now, moving to the camera of the Mi 4i.
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April 23, 2015, 16:50:24 (IST)
Sunlight Display technology allows the phone to do dynamic tone mapping which keeps image quality balanced in bright sunlight.
April 23, 2015, 16:49:45 (IST)
It gets a fully laminated display with great black levels, says Barra. Mi 4i comes with Sunlight Display.
April 23, 2015, 16:47:44 (IST)
Mi 4i comes with a higher color saturation than the iPhone 6 and fully laminated OGS display.
April 23, 2015, 16:44:57 (IST)
Talking about the display, the Xiaomi Mi 4i comes with a full HD display and pixel density that goes up to 441ppi.
April 23, 2015, 16:43:09 (IST)
It gets a quick charge feature
April 23, 2015, 16:41:48 (IST)
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April 23, 2015, 16:40:54 (IST)
It will be fuelled by a 3120mAh battery.
April 23, 2015, 16:38:13 (IST)
Users can expect a soft touch matte finish along with anti grease coating.
April 23, 2015, 16:37:22 (IST)
April 23, 2015, 16:36:49 (IST)
It will be the same height as the iPhone 6 with a 10pc larger screen.
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