Xiaomi is being talked about all over the online and offline media, and rightly so. Not only did the China based firm announce a flagship-esque phone for a budget price, but it also has been teasing its upcoming handset, believed to be the next-in-line flagship Xiaomi Mi4.
Besides that, something that caught our attention earlier today were images of LTE enabled Redmi phones from the company. While Xiaomi has announced the Redmi 1S and Redmi Note for India, neither of the two come with on-board LTE. This means that the company could be up to something more than just the Mi4 for the launch event scheduled for the 22nd of this month.
However, the Redmi that we spotted at the certification database appears to be the original, MediaTek powered version and not the Snapdragon 400 powered Redmi 1S that launched in India. If that is the case, we have good reason to believe that Xiaomi would be using the MT6582 + MT6290 (LTE chip) combo that has lately found a lot of takers.
Given the poor penetration of LTE networks in India, we wouldn’t be surprised if the company doesn’t launch these LTE variants in the country. In fact, it could well be a China-only thing since the listing suggests the phones will have only TD-LTE, a technology that China Mobile uses to provide 4G access in the country.