The Xiaomi Mi A1 (also known as Xiaomi Mi 5X), is a

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co-developed by

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—as part of its

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initiative—and

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that runs on the

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Specifications

Hardware

Mi A1 comes with a 5.5" touchscreen display with Full HD 1080p resolution, powered by a 3080 mAh battery. It measures 155.40 × 75.80 × 7.30 (height × width × thickness) and weighs 165.00 grams. The phone is powered by a 2.0 GHz Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor with 14 nm FinFET with

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506 650 MHz GPU, and comes with 4GB of RAM. It has an internal storage of 32/64GB, and unique for the series,

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card slot (hybrid slot) supporting up to 128GB cards. The rear camera on the Mi A1 is 12MP 1.25μm f/2.2 + 12MP 1.0 μm, 2.6 shooter with auto focus and 2× optical lossless zoom, Two tone Flash and 5-piece lens, it is capable of recording HD and 4k videos, the phone also has a 5MP 1.12μm, 2 front camera. Sensors on the phone include compass magnetometer,

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, Infrared and Hall Sensor

Software

The Xiaomi Mi A1 ships with Android 7.1.2 Nougat and Update to Android 9.0 Pie is available. Besides Google software, the phone comes with Xiaomi's applications such as Camera, FeedBack, Mi Community and Mi Remote. The Mi A1 will receive OS upgrades for a minimum of two years. The

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update does not bring a

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functionality for device independent system updates. The device's kernel sources were released in January 2018, 4 months after its release. Mi A1 has an active developing community in XDA forums (for users who want to root their device and flash custom ROMs).

Mi 5X

The Mi 5X is the Chinese market version of the Mi A1, running

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over Android. The 5X only differs in its software, having identical hardware to the A1.

Release

The Xiaomi Mi A1 was unveiled on 5 September 2017 and it is available in all of Xiaomi's current markets, with the exception of the

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, where Mi 5X

based variant of the phone was released prior that year.

Reception

Xiaomi Mi A1 received mostly positive reviews. Sam Byford of

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described Mi A1's most distinct feature is its software that runs on stock Android and not on Xiaomi's MIUI layer. Sahil Gupta of

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wrote that Mi A1's

certified experience along with tried and tested hardware, and dual camera capability gives you the premium feel under a budget. The phone has been described as 'giving a resurgence' to the

program, being the first Android One phone to be sold worldwide, and the first Android One phone by a top-5 bestselling smartphone brand. It was also the first mid-range priced phone to feature a dual rear camera setup with a zoom lens.

Issues

At the end of 2017 Android Oreo was released and had created major battery draining issues on some devices. Xiaomi claimed they were aware of the issue and said they would be working on a fix, but it never arrived. Another issue was the dropping of Wi-Fi connections - one of the many issues on the device.

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