Xiaomi Mi Note Pro to go on sale in China on May 12 for CNY 2,999 ($485)

Back in January Xiaomi announced the Mi Note Phablet along with a more powerful variant dubbed Mi Note Pro. At that time the Chinese smartphone maker did not reveal the availability details of the smartphone.

Today, Xiaomi has finally announced that the Mi Note Pro phablet will go on sale in China for CNY 2999 ($485 | Rs. 30,000). The registrations for the the sale has started on Mi.com. There are no details on global availability of the smartphone yet.

The Xiaomi Mi Note Pro features a 5.7-inch Sharp/JDI display with Sunlight Display technology and with a QHD (1440x2560 pixels) resolution offering a pixel density of 515ppi. The screen has Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection.

Under the hood there is a octa-core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor (four Cortex-A57 cores clocked at 2GHz, and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.5GHz) paired with Adreno 430 GPU and 4GB LPDDR4 RAM. It comes with 64GB internal storage (no microSD card slot) and runs Android 4.4.4 KitKat with MIUI 6 on top.

Xiaomi claims to have solved the heating issues of Snapdragon 810 by inserting 4 graphite cooling fans inside, one of them being double-layered. After playing games for 20 minutes the temperature of the back was 36.3 degree celsius.

Camera features include 13-megapixel rear camera with two-tone flash from Philips, Six element lens, OIS, Sony CMOS sensor, f/2.0 aperture and 4K video recording capabilities. On the front it gets a 4-megapixel camera with large 2-micron pixels. 

Connectivity options include dual-SIM support, 4G LTE (cat.9 up to 450Mbps) , WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4/5 GHz), WiFi Direct, Bluetooth 4.1 and GPS. A 3090mAh battery fuels the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro. It is 6.95mm thick and weighs 161 grams.

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