Xiaomi launched the all new successor to Redmi 4A that was launched last year.The Redmi 5A was launched at an event in china on monday.
Redmi 5A has already gone on sale in china and is expected to hit Indian shores soon.Redmi 4A was launched at a price of Rs.5,999 and the current generation might also be priced similarly.At the launch event in china,the device launched with a price tag of CNY599(Rs 5,900)
The Redmi 5A is equipped with a Qualcomm snapdragon 425 quad-core chipset clocked at 1.4GHZ.The processor is paired with 2GB RAM and 16GB internal storage
The primary camera sports a 13 Megapixel sensor with an aperture of f/2.2.The camera comes with common features like HDR mode,panaroma mode and burst mode.for the front camera,the device will use a 5megapixel sensor with an f/2.0 aperture
The device sports a 5-inch display with a resolution of 1280×720.The company has chosen to skip the fingerprint sensor.
Xiaomi also place a hybrid SIM tray which can either store two Sims or one SIM and one MicroSD card. below the screens is the usual of capacitive touch buttons- for recent,home and back
On the software front,the device will feature a MIUI 9 based on Android Nougat.Despite the use of metal,the company has managed to limit the weight to 13 grams