The Hotly-anticipated: Xiaomi Mi 4i Launched at Rs. 12,999

During the ongoing Global Mi Phone Premiere, Xiaomi has finally pulled down the veils from its much-awaited and long-rumored smartphone, called Mi 4i that was codenamed as Ferrari. As the matter of fact, gadget has been appeared in a plenty of rumors and tidings, whereby its some of the aspects had already come into view. Well, tech giant has again repeated the history by incorporating its novel creation with competent internal hardware and labeling it with an affordable price tag of Rs. 12,999.

Diving into the successor of hot-selling handset: Mi 4, Mi 4i aka Ferrari is fitted with a 13-megapixel Sony/Samsung rear camera with two-tone LED flash, f/2.0 aperture and 5-element lens. In addition, mobile houses a 5-megapixel selfie snapper decked with Beautify feature, which has been said as a built-in tool that apply one of 36 beauty profiles to users' selfies by judging age and gender and gives all-natural glow to pictures.

Powered by 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 615 CPU clocked at 1.7GHz, this dual-SIM supported smartphone comprises Adreno 405 GPU in order to render amazing mobile-experience. Touching the subject of connectivity, new creation of company offers 4G LTE, Bluetooth 4.1, Wi-Fi, GPS and GLONASS options.

Featuring ultra-compact unibody design with a soft touch matte finish and an anti-grease and fingerprint coating, gadget bears a 5-inch IPS Sharp JDI display fully laminated Corning OGS glass that bestows pixel resolution of 1920 x 1080p and pixel density of 441ppi. Memory-wise, handheld is arrayed with 2GB RAM along with 16GB of internal storage, but there is no microSD card slot.

Fueled by a 3120mAh lithium-ion polymer battery, device is equipped with Quick Charge technology, whereby consumers can charge it upto 40% in an hour. Moreover, Xiaomi Mi 4i runs on MIUI 6 based on Android Lollipop and it has been designed in Black, White, Orange, Light Blue and Pink color models.

According to Xiaomi, handset will go on its first flash sale on April 30 via company's retail partner: Flipkart. And, registration will also start tonight at 8pm via this online portal, so prospective buyers can visit the dedicated website to pre-order this feature-rich phone.