Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has announced that it will release a Gold Edition of its latest device called the Xiaomi Mi 5 this month. Xiaomi revealed that the new variant will be available starting May 29. The company pointed out that the rear of this device would be made out of 3D glass instead of the normal ceramic material.

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The Gold Edition Mi 5 smartphone is expected to be priced at around $355 or $305 depending upon the customer's choice of hardware. A version of the Xiaomi Mi 5 smartphone powered by Snapdragon 820 chipset and supported by Adreno 530 GPU with either 4GB or 3GB of memory will be available for around $400. There are rumors suggest that a white-colored model of the Mi 5 to be revealed soon, but this will only be exclusively available for the Mi5 Pro smartphone.

In terms of the specification of the device, Xiaomi Mi 5 smartphone sports 5.15-inch IPS LCD (1080 x 1920 pixels) capacitive touch screen that support 428ppi pixel densities with Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection. The device comes with two processing power: the standard edition is powered by Qualcomm's MSM8996 dual-core 1.8 GHz Kryo & dual-core 1.36 GHz Kryo processor, while the other edition is equipped with Snapdragon 820 dual-core 2.15 GHz Kryo & dual-core 1.6 GHz Kryo SoC.

The smartphone is powered by 4GB or 3GB of RAM (depending on the model) and it comes with a built-in 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB internal memory storage. The device runs on Android v6.0 Marshmallow operating system out of the box along with MIUI 7.0 user interface on top. With regards to the graphics, the device is equipped with Adreno 530 GPU.

On the camera front, Mi 5 sports a 16-megapixel main camera with f/2.0, OIS (4-axis), phase detection autofocus, dual-LED (dual tone) flash support coupled with a 4-megapixel front shooter for selfies and video calls.

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