he do state that next sales is 18may right. not everyday

you can always buy from mi.cn , and ship it back via 65daigou,

u buy from mi china, u get the local market mi without play store and no google services.

you have to get those installed yourself.

This post has been edited by demio121: May 12 2016, 02:28 PM

I plan to try my luck again next week.
If I get lucky, I don't mind giving that unit up here.
Similarly, if anyone here gets lucky to add the phone to cart, I don't mine sharing my India address for shipping.

actually its quite easy now. just have to download the google play service installer from the xiaomi app store
and then you can choose which services u wan to install

Can flash ROM ma. no worry

then shipping address is to 65daigou???

How bout sirim tax and gst? Does daigou do that for u?

Forget about it, mi china full of scalpers, even harder to get and sold out under 5seconds. Only option is to buy from scalpers. I followed their weekly tuesday flash sale for 2months when i was in china, until now still not able to get it.

I hope OP3 will be reasonably priced and have sufficient stocks.

Then many people may switch to OP3 instead.

With same price 1.5k ?

Oneplus 3 ?

yup, im not a scalper. just trying to help.
but all this is get thru their flash sale then la.
otherwise no way to help.

I bought the "normal" version - 3GB RAM 64GB storage model.


What I can say after 2 days of usage (read: it's only two days):
- Phone feels great in hand. The slim sides make it very easy to hold. Better than my 6S.
- Screen is very sharp BUT a little to the yellowish side. You can change the preset @ Cool/Standard/Warm but if you go to cool, it's too blue. Am on standard but it's too yellow.
- Phone is very snappy. Never encountered lag thus far.
- Camera sucks. Took a couple of photos and noticed that it is very noisy (compared to my 6S).
- Battery is enough to last me one day on normal usage. iPhone is dead every time in the afternoon in comparison.

Will continue to use it and see if there's more to share.

Can show sample camera pic ?
Maybe will improve with miui 8

Sad to hear the camera sucks, i thought it at least nearly on par considerign the price. That is my only concern as I am trying to get hold of the Mi5 Pro. The price is too tempting.. with actual ROM support unlike other chinese phones.

official china model? the camera only the noise problem? what about photos quality? do you play games on it?

The camera is that bad? Or is it just the software tuning problem?
I was thinking about getting the mi5 to replace my note5.

Note 5 is best camera, wth you need mi5 to replace? smaller?

its not bad.
its better than previous xiaomi .
but you cant compare to ipon,samseng tier1 phone ma.

Yes note 5 is the best phone I use so far. Other than the size no issue at all. Its the hight actually which keeps sticking out of the pocket . The honor 7 is acceptable height but camera not that great.