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As expected, Xiaomi has unveiled two new budget smartphones namely Redmi 4 and Redmi 4A in China. Both the smartphones comes with interesting specifications and all metal unibody design. The Redmi 4 comes out with two variants, one with Snapdragon 430 (Standard Edition) & other with Snapdragon 625 (Pro Edition). Redmi 4 with Snapdragon 430 features a 5" HD Display, It has an Octa Core processor clocked at 1.4GHz paired with 2GB RAM and 16GB Storage. The Device sports a 13MP rear and 5MP selfie shooter. Skinned with MIUI 8, the device runs Marshmallow and has a giant 4100mAh battery. Talking about Redmi 4 with Snapdragon 625, The Device sports a 5" FHD Display, It has an Octa Core processor clocked at 2.0GHz paired with 3GB RAM and 32GB Storage. The Device sports a 13MP rear and 5MP selfie shooter. Skinned with MIUI 8, the device runs Marshmallow and has a giant 4100mAh battery The Xiaomi Redmi 4A sports a 5" Display with Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 CPU, 2GB RA...

Xiaomi is all set to launch the next Redmi device the Redmi 4 on November 4. India is known to have a Xiaomi fanbase and a lot of fans consist of people who use a Redmi device. The Xiaomi Redmi 4 has been teased by the company for sometime now and the company has finally released the date of the launch.Xiaomi will be getting the device to India as well, but the company has not commented on what exactly will be the launch date of the device in India.The Xiaomi Redmi 4 will have a fingerprint sensor at the back and looks very similar to the current Redmi Note 3. The Redmi 4 will offer a 5-inch Full HD display and will be powered by an octa-core Snapdragon processor with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard storage with support for microSD card slot. On the camera front, there will be a 13MP rear camera along with a 5MP front camera and will be backed by a 4,000mAh battery.The device is expected to be priced around CNY 1,299 in China which roughly translates to Rs 12,870.

We all have been patiently waiting for the next generation Mi Band 2 from Xiaomi. Earlier rumours had revealed that the new wearable was going to be announced alongside the Xiaomi Max phablet on May 10. Well, that didn’t happen, which brought up questions about the release date of the device among fans. Xiaomi CEO, Lei Jun had earlier showed off the new band at the event, but revealed no details about its release. However, considering the concern about the progress of the Mi Band 2, he confirmed today that the new wearable will be announced early June. If you remember, when Huami CEO had revealed that the Mi Band 2 was facing mass production issues, Lei Jun had said that it would take around a month for everything to stabilise. So, this time frame is in line with the CEO’s previous comments. While he didn’t reveal any features of the device, thanks to an earlier leak, we already know how the new Mi Band 2 will look in real life. There will be a display on board the device...

Rumors that Chinese giant Xiaomi is working on a MacBook-clone have been floating around since last December. Now a new report claims to confirm that the company will launch its first laptop in China next year. According to Taipei Times, Xiaomi recently tapped Inventec to produce the notebook. The new device won’t launch until the first half of 2016, the report said. It’s expected to follow a similar model as the company’s smartphones, which offer solid hardware and features at cutthroat prices. Xiaomi already has a huge fan base in China and a few other countries where it operates. The firm mostly sells smartphones and a few other gadgets, but a new laptop could give it a whole new source of revenue. “I am upbeat about the business outlook for Xiaomi’s notebook computers,” Inventec chairman Richard Lee told Taipei Times. “The firm has more than 200 million registered smartphone users.” It sounds like Xiaomi’s laptop will be limited to China at first, though it’s poss...

Xiaomi has finally revealed a couple of new details regarding its upcoming Xiaomi Mi 4c smartphone. Thanks to Xiaomi co-founder and president Li Nan, and Chairman and co-founder Lei Jun, for share these new details. Xiaomi says that the new Xiaomi Mi 4c will come in a new packaging. The company will be switching from non-descript box to more colorful ones. It also confirms that ‘c’ in 4c will focus on ‘colors.’ So, Xiaomi Mi 4c will be available in different color options too, just like the Apple iPhone 5c. It will also support dual-SIM capacibilties with 4G on both SIMs. The company is also adding some popular software features in this phone. The Xiaomi Mi 4c will feature double tap to wake, which will allow users to turn on the display with just double tap on the screen. Lei Jun also confirmed that this smartphone will be powered by the Snapdragon 808 SoC. On the side note, the rumored specifications of the Xiaomi Mi 4c include a 5-inch of Full HD display screen with ...

It is official now, Xiaomi Mi 4c will be coming out on September 22nd. As confirmed by Xiaomi co-founder and president Mr. Lin Bin, Xiaomi is planning to launch two different models of the Xiaomi Mi 4c smartphone. The first one with low price tag will feature 2GB RAM with 16GB of storage and the second one will feature 3GB RAM with 32GB of Internal Storage. The price of Xiaomi Mi 4c 16GB model will be obviously lower than the 32GB model. It will start at around $235 USD. Both of these smartphones will also include USB Type-C port for offering better transfer speed. That is all what we know about Xiaomi Mi 4c right now. It is also expected to include a 3080 mAH battery inside with an infrared port. Well, September 22 is the date when Xiaomi will launch it in China. There are currently no details when it will be launching in the Indian market. Let’s wait for the best.

In January, Xiaomi announced the Mi Note and the Mi Pro but did not reveal a successor to their victorious Mi 4, which came out last year in January. However, this can change as the new device, tentatively named as the ‘Mi 5′, may arrive this summer. Recently leaked photos reveal new details about the new phone. The phone looks a lot like its predecessors in terms of its body design, only molded a bit more taller and thinner. Below are the alleged specs of the device. The phone is expected to have a 5.2-inch QHD display, 4GB RAM and powered by a 2.7GHz Snapdragon 810 chipset. The rest of the rumoured specs include a 16MP primary camera, integrated with an Optical Image Stabilisation for steady shots, a fingerprint scanner via the handset’s button and a 3,000mAh battery. All these were tipped off by a Chinese blogger. If true, this will be a significant upgrade over the Mi 4.a

Xiaomi’s Mi 4 successor was expected to be launched in January, but that certainly didn’t happen. Three months later, the phone is still in the rumor mill, with new reports suggesting the Mi 5 could come with a fingerprint scanner. First spotted by GizmoChina, Xiaomi has filed a patent application with the State Intellectual Property Office in China. The patent deals with a method to integrate fingerprint scanning into the touch buttons on a handset. The fingerprint scanning technology will most likely be embedded into the Mi 5′s home button at the bottom. The patent application reads as follows:  “The device comprises a bottom fingerprint sensors and optical sensor provided in the terminal equipment of the cover glass; fingerprint identification circuit connected fingerprint sensor for fingerprint recognition sensor and the fingerprint information analysis and processing, obtain fingerprint analysis; host processor, and an optical sensor and fingerprint identification...

Xiaomi launched the Mi 4 i in India on the same day Asus launched its Zenfone 2 .  The Asus Zenfone 2 comes in four variants, with prices starting at Rs 12,999. The Mi 4i is also priced at Rs 12,999 and we pit the new flagships against each other to see which one fares better. Processor The Xiaomi Mi 4i is powered by a second-generation 1.7GHz Snapdragon 615 octa-core (1.1GHz quad-core + 1.7GHz quad-core) 64-bit processor, while the Zenfone 2 ZE550ML has a 1.8GHz Intel Atom Z3580 quad-core chipset. Both the smartphones pair with a 2GB RAM. Price As mentioned above, the Zenfone 2 (ZE550ML) variant is the cheapest in the lineup priced at Rs 12,999. This is incidentally the same as Xiaomi Mi 4i. Both the phones will be sold on Flipkart, but the Zenfone 2 will not follow Xiaomi’s flash sale model. Pre-bookings for the Zenfone 2 are live, while registrations for the Mi 4i flash sale begin at 8.00PM today. Storage While both the smartphones have 16GB of internal me...

Xiaomi has today unveiled a brand new smartphone in the Indian market. Dubbed as Xiaomi Mi 4i, this smartphone will be available firstly in India, followed by other countries. The company also claims that this smartphone has been designed especially for the Indian customers.  As its name has been taken from Xiaomi Mi4, so you can expect to see some similarities here. The phone packs a 5-inch Full HD IPS display screen featuring polycarbonate unibody design, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 octa-core processor. The phone will be available in five different color options. India is the first country where this smartphone has been unveiled. The phone also features a 13MP f2.0 rear camera with Dual-tone LED flash and a 5MP f1.8 front facing camera. The device also features 2GB of RAM and 16GB of Internal Storage. It runs Android Lollipop Operating System. Along with that, the company is also providing Dual-SIM support in this phone. Comparing it with Apple’s high end i...

Along with its new Xiaomi Mi4i smartphone, the chinese smartphone manufacturing company has also launched Mi Band in the Indian market. While it is the original Mi Band, but it comes with a budget friendly price tag of just Rs. 999.  Xiaomi says that this band will be on sale starting April 28 on company’s mi.com website. And to promote it, the company says the first 1,000 units of this smartband will be available for just Re. 1. To remind you, Xiaomi Mi Band is a fitness tracker which can be easily paired with your Android or iOS device via Bluetooth 4.0 LE connection. The battery backup is of 30-days and it is also IP-67 certified, which means it is water and dust resistant.

Xiaomi Redmi 1s users can now get the taste of  Android 5.0 Lolli pop by installing CynogenMod 12 which runs on Android 5.0. This version of CynogenMod is not official but is stable and bugless ROM. Before updating you must root your device, if you don’t know about rooting then don’t worry we will guide you in doing so but if you already have a rooted device then you can skip the rooting steps and directly head toward the ROM installation. Rooting Redmi 1S: Download  Update.zip  ( from  here ) and put it in your internal storage. Download  SuperSu.zip  ( from  here ) and put it in your SD card. Then from your device go into Updater app – options menu – reboot to recovery. Now from recovery apply update to system using volume keys to navigate. Now reboot the system. After rebooting, again reboot into recovery and choose install zip from SD card and choose SuperSu.zip file from the SD card, then click yes and install it and again...

It seems like Xiaomi is currently working on a low-cost variant of Xiaomi Mi 4. To be called as Xiaomi E4, the smartphone have been recently leaked. It has many things similar to Mi 4, except for 2GB of RAM.  As spotted by GizChina, the smartphone recently passed certification website TENAA, where it revealed that the company is planning to firstly unveil this smartphone in China with the price tag of something under $300. As per reports, Xiaomi E4 is expected to feature a 5-inch of Full HD 1080p Display screen with 441ppi pixel density, 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801 quad-core processor along with 2GB of RAM, 16GB and 64GB of Internal Storage options. The smartphone also includes a 13-megapixel camera on the back with LED flash and an 8-megapixel camera on the front. As expected, it will be running Xiaomi MIUI 6.0 OS, which is a custom version of Android 4.4.3 KitKat Operating System. Other features include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and a 3,080 mAh battery.

Jaimani, part of Mi India product team, announced in a forum  update  that Mi Band will be available by late March or early April. According to the update, Mi India is currently testing Mi Band and plan to sell it in India as soon as they complete the update to MIUI 6 for their devices. As far as MIUI 6 OS updates go, they are currently in the process of rolling out Note 4G and Mi 3. Once these updates are over, they will be offering updates to Note 3G and Redmi 1S that will be over by March. If you are not aware Mi Band is essentially a wrist band that tracks various health related activities. It will monitor daily fitness levels by tracking your walking distance and other physical activities done through the day. It will also calculate and give out amount of calories burned on daily basis. The Mi Band connects to your smartphone app through Low energy Bluetooth and displays all your fitness data. While many other companies have launched similar devices, what dif...

Xiaomi has finally announced that there will be no more flash sale for Redmi Note 4G smartphone in India. Which means that now anyone can buy Redmi Note 4G smartphone anytime they want from Flipkat.com. The price of the smartphone is still Rs. 9,999, but it is now easy to grab. Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G comes with a 5.5-inch of HD IPS Display screen, powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, 2GB of RAM and 13MP rear camera with Android 4.4 KitKat based MIUI v5.0, 5MP front facing camera and a 13MP rear camera. The phone also supports 8GB of Internal Storage and will get the latest MIUI 6.0 OTA Update. Buy Now

Xiaomi India, through Mi India Facebook page, has announced that the 64GB version of its Mi 4 smartphone will be available on Flipkart starting February 24. The Mi 4 64GB has been priced at Rs 23,999. However, we can expect Xiaomi to surprise us with some discount before it officially goes on sale. Xiaomi had launched the Mi 4 16GB smartphone in January at Rs 19,999 and will go on sale on Flipkart from February 10. It seems that the 64GB version of the Mi 4 smartphone will share the same spec sheet and will come without support for 4G connectivity. Running Android 4.4.4 KitKat operating system sugar-coated with MIUI 6, the phone comes with a 13MP rear camera along with an 8M front camera. The The rear camera supports 4K video recording and along with Sony IMX214 stacked CMOS rear 6P lens, and f1.8 aperture. The front camera features a Sony IMX219 sensor 5P lens and offers f1.8 aperture and 80- degrees wide-angle. On the connectivity front, the phone will support 3G netw...

The New Year has kicked off with a bang as far as smartphones are concerned. We’ve seen quite a few launches in January from the most affordable LTE smartphone (Lenovo A6000) and Samsung’s first-ever Tizen smartphone, to Xiaomi’s much-awaited Mi 4. Here’s a list of 10 smartphones that launched this month. Lenovo A6000 Priced at just Rs 6,999, the Lenovo A6000 is one of the most affordable 4G LTE phone in the market today. The A6000 comes with a 5-inch HD, and under the hood is a Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz and paired with 1GB of RAM. The smartphone also features an 8-megapixel rear camera, 2-megapixel front-facing camera, 8GB internal storage, microSD card slot, and a 2,300mAh battery. Connectivity options include LTE support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and on the software front it runs on Android KitKat. The Lenovo A6000 is available on Flipkart via weekly flash sales. Samsung Z1 Samsung finally launched its first Tize...

The Chinese smartphone launched its latest device, Mi 4 at Rs 19,999 in the Indian market, in partnership Flipkart. The Mi 4 features a 5-inch display, 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 quad-core processor, 3GB RAM and 16GB of internal memory and runs on a 3,080 mAh battery. It has a 13 megapixel rear and wide-angle (80-degree) 8MP front camera. The Chinese firm also announced that it will make MIUI 6, an update to its user interface (UI), available to its existing three devices by March. Xiaomi, which has five exclusive Mi service centres (66 in total) plans to take the total number to 100 by the end of the year as it looks to strengthen its after-sales service. Xiaomi will start selling smartphones in India later this year through its own portal as it looks to beef up its presence in one of the world's fastest growing devices market.   Xiaomi, which currently sells devices in India through homegrown eCommerce major Flipkart, will bring in its website 'Mi.c...

Xiaomi held a press event in Mumbai today for the India launch of their flagship, Mi 4, and had a collection of announcements to make on the side. Of chief importance, was the announcement that MIUI 6, which ships with the phone, will also be rolling out to some of their older models in the market. The new UI will be available as an OTA (over-the-air) update for the Redmi 1S, Redmi Note 4 and Note 4G and the Mi 3. But, if your impatient to try it out, you can also manually download the UI from their official  forum . The new UI still prioritises Xiaomi's focus on customisation and privacy, while also giving the system an in-depth aesthetic overhaul. More colour, animation and convenience is the name of the game. We'll break some of those changes down for you right now: Colour: The icons have been redesigned for a crisper look, with more colour popping in wherever possible. Most of this might be too subtle for untrained eyes to notice, but consistent MIUI users will...

After long rumors and leaks, Xiaomi has finally launched its Mi4 smartphone in the Indian market. The price of Xiaomi Mi 4 in India is Rs. 19,999 aka Rs. 20,000. I don’t know why Xiaomi decided to choose this pricing, but it gives customers another reason to go with OnePlus One instead of buying this phone. Talking about the features, the Xiaomi Mi 4 comes with a 5-inch of 1920 x 1080 pixels IPS display screen with 441ppi. The phone runs Android 4.4 KitKat based Xiaomi’s MIUI 6 User Interface. It is highly customized version of Android Operating System. Other features include a 2.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor inside with 3GB of RAM and 16GB of Internal Storage. It also has 13MP rear camera with LED Flash, Sony IMX214 BSI sensor and 8MP front facing camera with Sony Exmor R sensor. The rear camera has the ability to record 4K videos. Xiaomi Mi 4 will be on sale in India starting February 10th and exclusively on Flipkart. The first registration for the sale w...