Do you think that the 5.15-inch Xiaomi Mi 5 flagship is just too small for you? Were you craving for a large screen Xiaomi phablet? Well, this seems to be your lucky day as the company is ready to enter a new smartphone segment, namely the phablet market. Remember yesterday we reported that a few verified accounts of Xiaomi, namely Xiaomi Max, Xiaomi Plus, Xiaomi Big etc cropped up online? Well, Xiaomi has confirmed that it plans to launch a new large screen smartphone. Now, the company is asking users to vote for their favorite name for the device.

There are four options, Xiaomi Max, Xiaomi Pro, Xiaomi Plus and then Xiaomi Big. To my surprise, at present, Xiaomi fans think that Xiaomi Big is the best name for the phablet with over 13,000 votes. The Xiaomi Max is the second favorite name with 11,700 votes and the other two, Pro and Plus are not really in the competition with hardly 5K votes. If you have an account on Weibo, go ahead and vote from here.

At present, the largest screen is found on the Xiaomi Mi Note, which is more than a year old now. But if the company is making such a big deal about the large screen on the upcoming device, then it’s highly likely that the phone comes with a 6-inch+ display.

There are a few speculations about this large screen phone as well. First of all, rumors say that it will be called as the Xiaomi Max lineup and will feature a 6.4-inch display. The Xiaomi Max lineup will be powered by the Snapdragon 820. However, there’s reportedly another new lineup in the works, which will be mid-range and will be called as the Redmi Max series. This lineup will also feature 6.4-inch display phones but with Helio X25 chipset inside.

So, end of the day, Xiaomi will have three main high-end smartphones, each targeted at different screen size lovers. The Xiaomi Mi series will targeted at the compact 5.2-inch market, the Mi Note will target the slightly bigger 5.7-inch display market while the Xiaomi Max series will be the phablet lineup with 6.4-inch screen.

However, these are just speculations at the moment, and we will have to wait for official details to confirm this information.

So, which one would you pick among these three?

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With only one more day till the anticipated launch of the Mi5 according to the Xiaomi Facebook post, a new leaked photo of the highly hyped successor of the Mi4 has been found via leaksfly’s Twitter post. Our previous post from January 12 struck down the rumor that the new phone will be housing 20.1mp main cameras, since the leaked photo samples taken with the camera showed pictures with 4208 x 3120 resolution, proving that the new phone will be retaining the 13mp camera.

This update however, proves that the rumor mills are not far off with their speculations that the phone will be the thinnest phone released by Xiaomi yet. The device looks to live up to the speculations of being only 5.1mm thin, making it one of the thinnest phones aavailableon the market. The twitter post calls the Mi5 the Xiaomi Mi5 Plus, which is yet another revelation, since it shows that the launch might not just be covering Xiaomi Mi 5 but might just include the Mi 5 Plus together with it.

The Xaiomi Mi5 plus in the picture looks to be amazing, with barely any screen bezels. The screen encompasses the entire phone, and if rumors are to be believed, will be an impressive 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution. The Xiaomi Mi5 is speculated to be powered by Snapdragon 805 with 3GB of RAM to save cost. With this in mind the Xiaomi Mi5 Plus might just be a more powerful version of the phone, with a Snapdragon 810 installed alongside a pricier tag that might be well worth it, considering the affordability of Xiaomi products. Other things to expect from this new flagship device, apart from the 13mp main camera resolutions and Snapdragon 805/810 processor, includes the 5.2-inch 2.5D glass with aluminium ally frames, an arced back shell, two color options, 3-4 GB of RAM, 16/64GB of storage and other incredible features.

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