Xiaomi recently partnered with GreenDust and Overcart to sell refurbished and unboxed Redmi 1S smartphones. The Redmi 1S is now available from Overcart at Rs. 4999, cheaper than the cost of new unit in sealed box. The devices will be covered under a six-month manufacturer warranty from Xiaomi, says the company. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 1S Unboxed units go on sale today on Overcart for Rs. 4999”
Xiaomi Redmi Note went on sale earlier this week on December 2nd, and it sold out in 6 seconds in the first flash sale. Xiaomi usually stops selling the earlier models temporarily to concentrate more on the new model. Now the company has decided to bring back the Redmi 1S, at least for a day. Xiaomi has announced that the Redmi 1S will be back on sale on December 8th, Monday. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 1S will be back on sale in India on Dec 8 without registration”
Xiaomi entered India with hopes of making a decent foray into the highly competitive smartphone market where right pricing equals massive success. Traditionally, Samsung knew this and Motorola stumbled upon it, Xiaomi should have known better. With the Mi3, the company woefully underestimated online demand and ended up discontinuing its sales soon, only to introduce a much cheaper model into the market, the Redmi 1S. On paper, the device is just too good to be true at the price point it comes at. For a shockingly low price of Rs. 5,999, the Redmi 1S comes with a large 720p screen, a powerful quad core processor, a 8 MP camera, 8 GB of memory and so on. No other phone currently offers these kinds of specifications at this price point, but the natural reaction for something that’s too good to be true is always this – Is there a catch? With the same doubt in our minds, here is the review of the Redmi 1S.
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Xiaomi Redmi 1S went on sale in India earlier this month for Rs. 5,996. We brought you the unboxing recently, here are the benchmarks. It is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 400 (MSM8228) processor clocked at 1.59 GHz per core and has Adreno 305 GPU. It has a 4.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display, 1GB RAM and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) with MIUI v5 on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 1S Benchmarks”
First batch of Xiaomi Redmi 1S went on sale today for Rs. 5,999. We managed to get one before it’s on sale in the country. Check out the unboxing video below.
Xiaomi reduced the price of the Redmi 1S to Rs. 5,999 and announced that it would go on sale on September 2nd. Today the company has announced that 40,000 units of Redmi 1S smartphones would be available for purchase in the first batch of sale next Tuesday. Continue reading “Xiaomi to sell 40,000 Redmi 1S units on September 2nd”
Xiaomi launched the Redmi 1S, a budget smartphone in India at the Mi 3 launch event last month, today at the Delhi event the company has announced that it would go on sale at Rs. 5999 on Flipkart starting September 2nd. It would be a flash sale similar to the Mi 3, and the registrations for the sale would begin starting today, August 26th at 6PM. This is Rs. 1,000 cheaper than the price Xiaomi announced last month, just like it did for the Mi3. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 1S to go on sale on Flipkart starting September 2nd for Rs. 5999”
Xiaomi has launched the Redmi 1S in India along other devices. It packs a 4.7-inch HD IPS display, powered by a 1.6 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 (MSM8228) processor with Adreno 305 GPU and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) based MIUI ROM. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash f/2.2 aperture and a 1.6-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 1S with 4.7-inch HD display, Snapdragon 400 SoC launched in India for Rs. 6999”
