Redmi Turbo 5 with Dimensity 8500 Ultra, 7540 mAh battery launched in India: Check price and specs below
Follow UsRedmi Turbo 5 is the first phone from Xiaomi's performance-focused Turbo series to launch in India
Redmi Turbo 5 packs a Dimensity 8500 Ultra chipset, a 7,540 mAh battery with 100W charging
Redmi Turbo 5 is priced from Rs 35,999, it goes on sale from 19 June
After the Xiaomi 17T launch earlier this month, the company has shifted its focus on the Redmi lineup and launched the Redmi Turbo 5 in India today. This is the first time Redmi has brought a “Turbo” series phone in India which has remind its performance focused lineup, exclusive to China, sitting above the Redmi Note series. The Redmi Turbo 5 is for users who want raw power, thermal management and gaming credentials over everything else. With the Turbo 5, Xiaomi now has a dedicated series in highly contested mid-to-premium segment. The Redmi Turbo 5 comes with a Dimensity 8500 Ultra chipset, a 7,540 mAh battery with 100W fast charging, a Dolby Vision display and IP ratings, making it one of the more comprehensively specced phones in its price bracket.
SurveyRedmi Turbo 5 specifications
The Redmi Turbo 5 features a 6.59-inch AMOLED screen with a 120Hz refresh rate and a claimed peak brightness of 3,500 nits. It is a 12-bit panel certified for Dolby Vision producing 68.7 billion colours, a 480Hz touch sampling rate and 3,840Hz PWM dimming. The screen is also protected with Gorilla Glass 7i.
The Turbo 5 measures 8.1mm in thickness and has a metal chassis and glass back with LED ring lights around its two camera modules that can be customized with 8 colours. The phone is also IP66, IP68, IP69 and IP69K rated so it can survive dust, water and pressure.
The Redmi Turbo 5 is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 8500 Ultra which has been fabricated on a 4nm process with a 3.4GHz maximum clock speed. This is paired with upto 12GB of LPDDR5X and LPDDR5X Ultra RAM and UFS 3.1 storage options to choose from. It runs on HyperOS 3 and Xiaomi promises 4 years of OS and 6 years of security updates.
Since the Turbo 5 is positioned as a performance driven phone, it features a 5,300mm2 thermal cooling system and supports 120FPS gaming across 20+ titles. In addition, it has a stereo speaker setup which is Dolby Atmos certified and supports Bluetooth 6.0, WiFi 7 and the IR blaster.
The Turbo 5 features a dual camera system headlined by a 50MP main camera that uses a Sony IMX882 sensor and an 8MP ultra-wide camera. Upfront, you get a 20MP selfie camera. The cameras can record in 4K 60FPS with OIS and EIS.
The Redmi Turbo 5 is equipped with a 7,540 mAh battery that supports 100W fast charging out of the box. Xiaomi claims that the Turbo 5 takes 1 hours 10 minutes to fully charge the battery.
Redmi Turbo 5 price and availability
The Redmi Turbo 5 is priced starting at Rs 35,999 for the 8GB+256GB storage variant and Rs 38,999 for the 12GB+256GB variant. The phone will go on sale from June 19 on Amazon, Xiaomi India store and mainline retail stores.
