The second Mi 5S is the Mi 5S Plus version, it has a larger 5.7″ screen, larger 3800mAh battery and a dual Sony 13MP rear camera set up. The rest of the specs remain the same, Qualcomm snapdragon 821, 4GB of RAM (up to 6GB) and 64GB to 128GB of UFS 2.0 storage. Still no MicroSD card slot on this one. Below is my detailed Xiaomi Mi 5S Plus Review video covering the most important aspects of the Mi 5S Plus.
The spec sheet is great, but overall I find the Mi 5S Plus disappointing, a step down from the Xiaomi Mi 5S I reviewed a 2 weeks back. The build quality isn’t as good, the dual cameras when used look just like HDR was turned on and doesn’t really do much for photo quality, only giving a brighter HDR-like photo with more unnatural color reproduction with about double the file size.
And my unit suffers from some quality control and build issues. 3 fixed, stuck/dead pixels on my display only after 2 weeks of use and my power button has a very shallow feel to it, almost no travel, I doubt it will last long. It feels more like a budget Redmi or Redmi Note mobile rather than a flagship mobile.
Apart from those negatives, the speed of the Mi 5S Plus is very good. It’s quick, snappy and a very capable gaming mobile with it’s slightly faster clocked Adreno 530 GPU. Battery life is also very good that’s to the large 3800mAh battery. Unless you really must have a larger display I would recommend skipping this model and looking at the Mi5S with it’s better Sony IMX 378 camera, and better build quality with a stronger feeling full metal rear unibody. There is also the LeEco Le Pro 3, which has a better build, larger battery, however a 16MP camera that’s not as good as the Mi5S’s camera.