Xiaomi will be staging a press event on Nov. 24 which many tech pundits believe will be the day the company unveils its first smartphone with a fingerprint sensor. Dubbed as the Mi Pad 2, the handset is rumored to have the same specs as the Redmi Note 2 that launched back in August. The only difference is that it would feature a metallic unibody plus the aforementioned fingerprint sensor.

To further heighten the anticipation, Xiaomi president Lin Bin recently released a teaser image of the Mi Pad 2 on his official Weibo account, per PhoneRadar.

Basing from the image, the handset is surprisingly thin while the camera fitted on the upper left-hand corner on the back doesn't include LED flash. The power and volume keys are positioned close together on what is the right side of the device if displayed in portrait mode.

Bin's social media post did not reveal the specs of the Mi Pad 2. Fortunately for anxious fans, a leaked benchmark listing from a week ago has already done just that.

According to the GeekBench database via TimesNews, the Mi Pad 2 sports an eight-inch 2048 x 1536 resolution display, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of native storage. It is powered by Intel's quad-core X5-Z8500 SoC, clocked at 2.24GHz. By comparison, the original Mi Pad employed the services of NVIDIA's Tegra K1 chipset, containing a quad-core 2.2GHz CPU.

With regards to the software, the Mi Pad 2 is expected to run on Android underneath Xiaomi's new MIUI 7 OS.

Games will last longer and feel smoother on MIUI 7, as per the company's overview page. The latest operating system optimizes power usage and improves battery life up to 10 percent. System response time is also boosted by as much as 30 percent.

Other features include an extra text size option as well as MI Roaming. The latter is a new app that acts as a virtual SIM card perfect for users who constantly travel. They can purchase data packages from Xiaomi instead of having to buy new SIM cards from every country they land on.

PhoneArena noted that the latest image isn't the first time Bin teased about the Nov. 24 event. Just the other day, the executive outed a teaser of the Redmi Note 2 Pro. That plus his recent post has hinted that Xiaomi could be unveiling not one, but two new handsets come next Tuesday.