Xiaomi Mi 5 may feature a physical home button with fingerprint sensor

The post spotted on the account mainly speaks about the Yeelight bedside lamp, but majority pointed out the smartphone located beside the bedside lamp as it could be the Xiaomi Mi 5, the successor to the Xiaomi Mi 4 smartphone.

The image uploaded shows an nearly bezeless device that looks exactly like the leaked pictures Phone Arena revealed.

Interestingly though, the unannounced but already highly anticipated Mi 5 and Mi 5 Plus, Xiaomi’s next flagship smartphones, are also named in the lawsuit. “The image’s caption, however, didn’t identify the smartphone” name. There is a “Mi” logo emblazoned in the top left of the device, sporting a white finish.

This image is not a leak, but it is an official image spotted on the company’s Weibo website. 1 SoC will power the Xiaomi Mi 5.

Word has it an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 v2. The grapevine, however, suggests the device will have the Snapdragon 820 SoC. Blue Spike LLC stated that the patent troll shows that the smartphone manufacturer is using the technology in the patent without its permission for the Mi 4, the Mi 4 LTE, the Mi 4c, the Mi 4i, the Mi Note Plus, the Redmi 1S, the Redmi 2, the Redmi 2 Prime, the Redmi 2A and the Redmi Note 2. The handset will be arriving with a metallic construction and is expected to feature a 5.2-inch display powered with pressure sensitive technology.

The good news is that the smartphone is worth waiting for – at least according to Xiaomi’s CEO, who wasn’t able to elaborate on why that is, exactly. It will be armed with a 16-megapixel rear-facing camera and an 8-megapixel or 5-megapixel front-facing snapper for selfies and handle video chats.

Jun, however, didn’t reveal any plans to announce the Mi 5, instead revealing Xiaomi is revamping its development cycle.