Thanks to licensing issues with Ericsson, Xiaomi had to prepare a Snapdragon-powered variant of their newest Redmi series phone, the Redmi Note 4 for the Indian market. There’s naturally a lot of interest around the device from Xiaomi buyers worldwide, but the Snapdragon-powered Redmi Note 4 is a bit hard to get hold of outside India.
That might change very soon, since word is that Xiaomi is planning to announce a Snapdragon version of the Redmi Note 4 in China. Before the Redmi Note 3 launch in India, Xiaomi announced a Snapdragon version of the phone — unofficially, and then officially, called the Redmi Note 3 Pro — in China.
There’s a few differences between the China version of the Redmi Note 4 and the Indian Snapdragon variant of the phone. For one, the phone features a cheaper design process and is slimmer as well.
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Xiaomi could very well announce the same phone in China, along with a couple new RAM variants. Like in India, the phone could be made available in 2GB and 4GB RAM variants, besides the ‘standard’ 3GB RAM version in China.
What does “cheaper design process” supposed to mean?
For a start, CN RN4 has a full metal back with the antennas over it, Indian variant has plastic on back in top and bottom part. with antennas underneath. Personally this was a downgrade, since one of RN4 major upgrade points were the better design over the RN3.
Also, the Chinese version of the Redmi Note 4 is way stronger than the Indian version.
Personally i am not interested at all in SD625. This is actually a SOC downgrade from SD650 on Redmi Note 3 Pro. Or i could be wrong ?
Now waiting for Redmi 2 Pro that got SD660 inside that is better than SD65x series.
Sorry got typo, should be Redmi pro 2