China Mobile has just leaked Xiaomi’s next smartphone

Most of the attention that Xiaomi gets in the West is for its ridiculously affordable premium handsets but the Chinese startup also has a wide selection of even more ridiculously affordable budget handsets as well, and the next one has just been leaked. According to a China Mobile executive, the new smartphone will feature a 4.7-inch 720p screen and some solid mid-tier specs. 

Xiaomi has been known for releasing quite a lot budget devices and this time around it seems that we may see another cheap phone very soon. Just recently, the CEO of the company Lei Jun sad that the Xiaomi currently has no plans to release a 399 Yuan smartphone. That means that the new upcoming smartphone should cost at least a bit more than the latter price tag. According to some previous rumours, the new cheap Xiaomi smartphone should have pretty basic specs, which include a 4.7-inch 720p screen and powered by a quad-core 1.6GHz processor. Also, it is said to have a 1GB of RAM and 8GB storage (most likely expandable). What is more, the smartphone should have 2 megapixel front camera and 8 megapixel rear shooter. All of this will be running on Android 4.4.4 system.