The phone itself features a 5.15-inch, Full HD display with a maximum brightness of 550 nits. Xiaomi is also harping about the fact that the phone features 2048 brightness levels, making brightness control more granular than previous offerings.
The phone is powered by Xiaomi’s in-house Surge 1 SoC, which we’ll go into more detail later. Essentially, the Surge 1 is an SoC with eight ARM Cortex A53 cores built on the 28nm process (modern, flagship SoCs are built on 16nm and 10nm processes). 4 cores are clocked at 2.2GHz and the remaining 4 at 1.4GHz.
The phone features a 2,860 mAh battery with fast charging at 9V and 2A over
USB-C. There’s only one memory configuration available, which offers 3GB of LPDDR3 RAM and 64GB of eMMC 5.0 storage.
The rear camera is a 12MP unit with 1.25 micron pixels, which Xiaomi says improves low-light performance. The phone also supports single-frame HDR. The phone will be upgradeable to
Android 7.1.
