By now there are quite a few Xiami teasers that are pointing at a completely new smartphone on 15 january. We will not see a new Xiaomi Mi5 or even a Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 but the launch of a new Xiaomi product line.

There has been already a few hints by xiaomi that they might be going down a new road by building a higher quality product similiar to the Meizu MX4 Pro or Vivo X4 Max. With all the new Xiaomi Mi5 leaks we were not reporting about these though

Today’s newest information suggest that Xiaomi might indeed launch a new phablet. The new phone will for sure be a flagship but it will not be succeeding the Xiaomi Mi4 or anything in the Redmi Range. The new Smartphone will be completely new.

Of course Xiaomi always have been concentrating on their build quality as we can see especially in their Xiaomi Mi4. Especially design wise Xiaomi was not able to put their own stamp on their products so far, from rather understated redmi devices to the apple inspired Xiaomi Mi4. That might be just one of the biggest reasons for a completely new Xiaomi with a great design, high build quality and Xiaomi’s own design.

We might just be seiing a “xiaomi mi4 note” or Xiaomi Opera”. Looking at all the teasers we saw so far the new xiaomi phone will definitely be larger and thinner then all the other xiaomi phones. If we believe the previous leaks we could see an extremely well designed and beautiful phone launch on 15th, a lot better then many of us expected from Xiaomi.

This newest Xiaomi teaser shows us the hardest evidence that xiaomi is launching a completely new phone. We have circled the most obvious words, please post more in the comments if you find them!

What we found so far:

• OIS
• Glass
• Faster
• HIFI
• Opera
• Audio
• Ligther
• Large
• Note
• ETC

There are certainly clues like “new” but also that the puzzle is called hello might mean that they bring a phone we havent seen yet. It looks really like we are getting something very new, not a Xiaomi Mi5 or Redmi Note 2, maybe a Xiaomi Opera or Mi 4 Note?

As the puzzle suggest the features differ also from what Xiaomi has been focussing on in the past. We get OIS (optical image stabiliziation), high audio quality, large display and glass panels we have not seen on Xiaomi phones yet.

In the puzzle we also see the name Opera which could be the title of the new product range from Xiaomi. The Xiaomi Opera range might include two new devices at launch. 2 models 5.2″ thin with Snapdragon 615 CPU and the other model with be 5.7″ screen and bigger battery might be one option.

From a selling standpoint a new high quality line makes a lot of sense. The new Xiaomi Opera line might be targeted at the Xiaomi Mi4 Pro with a slightly higher price around 2299Yuan. Meanwhile it would make sense to decrease the price of the XIaomi Mi4 to 1799 Yuan to fight the Meizu MX4.

As you can see we are pretty sure that something new is on the horizon, our only question will this new phone remain at the 1999 Yuan or below price that previous Xiaomi phones have shipped for, or is this new phone going to enter a slightly higher price bracket to fend off other high-class smartphones? Also we might be seing new products like a new Xiaomi tablet or above bluetooth speaker.

Let us know what you think in the comments below.