While it’s known that Xiaomi aren’t doing too well in their home market, there is some respite in a particular overseas market, thanks to their Redmi series phones.
The Redmi Note 3 went on sale in India back in March. Since then, it has gone on to become the country’s highest-shipped phone in the online market for any particular quarter.
Xiaomi shipped as many as 880,000 units of the Redmi Note 3 in Q2 2016. To add to that, Xiaomi sold a total of 1.75 million units of the phone in India since its launch.
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The Redmi Note 3 still happens to be a sought-after device, and rightly so. In its Indian variant, the Redmi Note 3 comes with a Snapdragon 650/652 processor and 2GB/3GB RAM, making it the phone to go for in the sub-13k INR range.
In related news, Xiaomi just gave their flagship Mi 5 a price cut in the Indian market.
Xiaomi could have doubled , even tripled these numbers with two very minor alterations for India market, 1. Provision of a dedicated Sd card slot, not the shitty hybrid dual Sim slot and a better cam.
All that was required is local market research.
“local market research”… Srsly?! So the only ones wanting a good camera are indians?! There are far better reasons for them to go for an average camera!
In my opinion that phone was built mostly for Indian market.
SD card slot, Snapdragon and decent camera setup.
Let’s not forget this is a $200 phone.
Tell me any other phone at that price range that has better specs.
The sales are proving them right, even in a market where LeTV does very well.
Phone was not for Indian market, the Chinese market actually (mid-tier). Hugo Barra told in interview the primary target the low to low-mid range spenders of Chinese youth, looking for great performance. Unfortunately here it has not done too well here. Chinese youth and elders are spending more on expensive phones.
The MTK version was born for Chinese market (worse camera, Mediatek SoC, no SD card support)
Then a couple of months later they made the Snapdragon version with improved camera, SD card support and they launched it in India where the Mediatek phones can’t be sold due to a ban.
Article is incorrcet, Note 3 Pro doesn’t have Snapdragon 652 (octa-core)..
http://www.mi.com/in/note3/specs/
Redmi Note 3 Pro is the best value smartphone (Dollar to dollar) compare to other Xiaomi Phones :
– Redmi xx is their cheapest model but the spec consider as low end
– Mixx is high end devices but it is much more expensive.
If the buyer did their homework and check the spec and pricing then Redmi note 3 pro is the best choice. Price only a bit more expensive than low end redmi series but spec is much better.
last price i know (months ago) was already reach $165 from aliexpress for the 3GB + 32GB.
And again, i just checked Singapore Xiaomi official online Shop, Loo and Behold…. NO STOCK AS USUAL !!!!!!! I don’t know how many months already like this. No wonder Xiaomi cannot beat other big brands.