Xiaomi Mi5 vs iPhone SE: Battle of Newbies

26 Feb 2019

iPhone SE and Mi5 are the latest builds from the Apple and Xiaomi respectively, and being new phones in the market, they attract each and everyone’s mind in this world. Both the devices seem to be the greatest in the market right now. In order to avoid confusions, here i compared both the Apple iPhone SE and Xiaomi Mi5 in various aspects as follows, 

Design and Build: In terms of design, both the device makes your jaw drop. Especially, the rose gold version of iPhone SE will make you to mouth water with its curved edges. Similar to iPhone 5s, the device comes with top and bottom, which is made up of glass and a Touch ID mounted on the home screen of the device. The rounded volume button and microphone were located in the same place as iPhone 5s. Apart from the similarities of iPhone 5s, the device comes with a matte finish and which makes the device look better, in all possible angles. Also, the logo present in the rear panel is matched to the color of the device. The 4-inch display helps the users to hold the device in single hand and also allows them to even put the device in their wallet itself.

On the other hand, the Mi5 comes with ceramic rear case, which is claimed to be harder material than the metal by Xiaomi. Also, the design of the device looks similar to the Xiaomi Mi Note, which is a competitor of Galaxy Note 5. In other words, we can mention that Xiaomi Mi5 is a refined version of Xiaomi Mi Note. With 3D ceramic rear body, the device looks most mind blowing and attracts with shiny frames. The front panel of the device comes with borderless display, which might be an added advantage for the device and also a fingerprint sensor is mounted on the home button on the device. In addition to this, bezel-less display makes the device look better and has excellent body-to-screen ratio, while compared to other devices found in the market.

Display: The 4-inch display in the iPhone SE supports 1136 x 640 pixels and night-shift mode present in the iOS 9.3 update make the device to adjust the display automatically to the brightness present in the atmosphere. With PPI of 326, the device produces a better color reproduction, when viewing images or videos on the device. Xiaomi Mi5 powered with 5.15 inches of display provides 1920 x 1080 pixels of resolution. Similar to iPhone SE, Mi5 also offer best night mode that automatically adjusts the brightness, so that your eyes won’t get irritated at night time.

Software: Apple iPhone SE comes with latest operating system from Apple i.e., iOS 9.3, whereas Mi5 comes with MIUI 7.0, an altered version of the Marshmallow Android 6.0 update.

Processor and Performance: The iPhone SE comes with similar configuration as iPhone 6s i.e., A9 Processor with M9 co-processor. It is proved that the performance of iPhone SE is even greater than iPhone 6s. The device comes with two different variants on the basis of internal on-board storage, namely 16GB and 64GB models. Mi5 comes with 1.2GHz powered Snapdragon 820, with 4GB of RAM in Pro edition and 3GB of RAM in the normal standard edition.

Camera: The all new iPhone SE comes with a spectacular camera of 12-megapixel iSight camera that has an aperture of f/2.2 and dual LED flash. It also has a 1.2-megapixel FaceTime camera on the front with f/2.4 aperture. The Xiaomi Mi5 has some interesting things to talk about its camera too. It sports a 16-megapixel camera, auto flash, phase detection autofocus and also a 4-axis optical image stabilization. The front camera of Xiaomi Mi5 has a 4-megapixel (2 micron pixel) camera.

Battery: Now the most important feature that everyone wishes to have is a long battery life, and you can obviously not be disappointed in this aspect as the Xiaomi SE has a battery life of 3,000mAh battery (non-removable) while the iPhone SE has a battery capacity of 1,642 mAh (non-removable).

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