Xiaomi has sold 40,000 units of Redmi Note 4G smartphones in just 6 seconds in today’s (December 30th) sale in India. This is the first time Xiaomi is selling its Redmi Note 4G smartphone, and over 2 lakh people had registered for the sale. The Redmi Note 4G has support for TD-LTE 2300MHz (Band 40) and FDD-LTE 1800MHz (Band 3) for India and is powered by a 1.6GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 SoC, instead of Octa-Core MediaTek chip in the 3G variant. It single SIM support, unlike the SIM 3G variant.
Xiaomi recently announced that it has sold 1 million smartphones in India till last week. Yesterday the company announced that it will launch its next flagship device in January 2015. It raised US$1.1 billion in the latest round of funding and it is valued at US$45 billion, making it the most-valuable private startup in the world, beating Uber.
Xiaomi usually bundles free screen protector and SIM trays with the order. Now it has started shipping them separately. Those who have purchased the Redmi Note 4G today can redeem their freebies that includes micro SIM card tray and a screen protector by registering with your details here. The verification process will take 1 working day and it will be delivery in 3 working days.