Well, at this price point they definitely have to cut corners somewhere. As long as they don't cut corners on something important I'm fine with it.

Now this is the device that I would be waiting.

Because to be frank, 5.2 inch is a bit on the smaller side for me, would definitely love something at 5.5 inch or slightly above, Mi Note-alike size sounds perfect for me.

There's something that worried me about Xiaomi as a phone manufacturer though, their speed of pumping out OS updates are absolutely atrocious and I being an Android apps developer would love to have something that have the newest OS to test my stuff out, running stuff on emulators is really inefficient, takes forever to load and not everything works like it does in a real phone.

That's hard to say, there's a lot of factors to consider when it comes to binning, power consumption is not the only one.