Pocket-friendly smartphones from Xiaomi
Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi, has launched its budget smartphones with the latest features, in India. The phones come in two variants – Xiaomi Redmi 3s and Xiaomi Redmi 3s Prime.
The Redmi 3s comes with 2GB RAM and 16GB inbuilt storage, while the Redmi 3s Prime comes with 3GB RAM and 32GB inbuilt storage— expandable up to 128GB via microSD card—along with a fingerprint sensor.
Both the variants feature a 12.7cm (5 inch) HD (720X1280 pixels) IPS display, run MIUI 7.5 based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and have the new octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor (with four cores clocked at 1.1GHz and the other four at 1.4GHz) with an Adreno 505 GPU.
According to company sources, these are to be the first smartphones featuring the new Snapdragon 430 chipset in India. The devices sport a 13 megapixel rear camera with PDAF (phase detection auto-focus), an f/2.0 aperture, HDR mode, 1080p video recording and LED flash along with a 5 megapixel front camera with 1080 video recording.
The connectivity options of the handset include 4G, Wi-Fi, GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth, GPS/A-GPS, Glonass, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and micro USB. Backed with a 4000mAh battery, the Xiaomi Redmi 3s and Redmi 3s Prime are available via Mi.com and Flipkart. Address: Xiaomi India Pvt Ltd, 8th Floor, Tower-1, Umiya Business Bay, Marathahalli – Sarjapur Outer Ring Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103; Email: service.in@xiaomi.com; Website: www.mi.com