Chinese tech company Xiaomi may bring its ultra-affordable phone, the Redmi 3S to India soon. To recall, the Redmi 3S is an upgraded variant of the Redmi 3, which was successor to the popular Redmi 2. The phone was launched in China in the month of June.
Back in March, Xiaomi's vice president for global operations Hugo Barra had revealed during a round-table teardown session (of the Redmi Note 3) that the Redmi 3 phone will not be coming to India anytime soon. In fact, there's even a possibility that Xiaomi may not launch the Redmi 3 in India, at all because launching the Redmi 3 would collide with the Redmi Note 3 and the company wouldn't want that.
"It (the Redmi 3) is a really, really good device. But timing wise it would collide with Redmi Note 3. We really like to launch one device at a time, that's why we decided that we were going to bring the Redmi Note 3 to India, specifically the Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 (MSM8956) version and not bring the Redmi 3, at least for the time being," Hugo had said.
Hugo had however insisted that Xiaomi was open to the idea of launching an upgraded variant of the Redmi 3 here in the near future.
"We are going to be refreshing it with (new) processors, so on and so forth. So there may be an opportunity later to maybe bring a newer version of that product," Hugo had said hinting that the company may launch another variant of the Redmi 3 at some point of time.
Xiaomi launched two variants of the Redmi 3s in China — 16GB and 32GB. The 16GB storage variant comes with 2GB of RAM and is priced at 699 Yuan (Rs 7,000 approximately). The 32GB storage variant, on the other hand, comes with 3GB of RAM and is priced at 899 Yuan (Rs 9,000 approximately).
Xiaomi Redmi 3s specifications and Features
The Chinese variant flaunts a 5-inch HD (1280×720 pixels) display, and is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 430 octa-core chipset. Storage options include 16GB and 32GB options, and there is also a hybrid SIM card slot. This setup allows one to either use two SIM cards, or one SIM card and one microSD card.
In a photography, 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) support, while up front is a 5-megapixel selfie camera. The 16GB variant comes with a 4,000mAh battery, while the 32GB variant comes with a 4,100mAh battery.
It also includes a fingerprint scanner placed at the back, and connectivity options include 4G LTE support, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, and GPS. It remains to be seen whether Xiaomi launches the same specifications or modifies something for India, like it did with the Redmi Note 3.
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