Xiaomi has announced a new service for its Mi Fans in India. The Chinese tech company has launched a pre-ordering facility for offline markets in the northern region, as well as for large format retailers (LFRs) across the southern region.
The company will be keeping its Redmi Note 4 smartphone as the first to be available via pre-orders between March 14-17 March across LFRs, and from March 16-21 across offline stores in Delhi, Jaipur and Chandigarh.
The smartphone will be going on sale starting March 18 across retailers, and March 22 in Delhi, Jaipur and Chandigarh. Some of the retailers include Sangeetha, Poorvika, Lot Mobile and BigC. It is priced at Rs 11,499 onward.
Xiaomi says that it will make all its products available for offline pre-orders in future.
The company will be keeping its Redmi Note 4 smartphone as the first to be available via pre-orders between March 14-17 March across LFRs, and from March 16-21 across offline stores in Delhi, Jaipur and Chandigarh.
The smartphone will be going on sale starting March 18 across retailers, and March 22 in Delhi, Jaipur and Chandigarh. Some of the retailers include Sangeetha, Poorvika, Lot Mobile and BigC. It is priced at Rs 11,499 onward.
Xiaomi says that it will make all its products available for offline pre-orders in future.
"We spent 2016 building strong operations in our offline distribution and paving the way to bring innovation in our offline model. We started this with our direct-to-retail model and with the introduction of pre-orders, we are extending our innovation to everyone," said Vipin Raina, head of offline sales, Xiaomi India.
Redmi Note 4 sports a metallic unibody with round edges. It has a 5.5-inch Full HD display offering wide-viewing angle viewing. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor clocked at 2.2GHz, with support for microSD cards of up to 128GB in size.
The Redmi Note 4 comes in three variants -- 2GB RAM/32GB internal storage, 3GB RAM/32GB internal storage and 4GB RAM/64GB internal storage. The smartphone runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow, topped with the company's own MIUI 8 skin layer.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 is backed by a 4,100mAh battery and comes with an IR blaster. On the camera front, the Note 4 has a 13MP rear camera with dual-LED flash and a 5MP front-facing snapper. The dual-sim smartphone offers 4G, VoLTE, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, Glonass and micro-USB as connectivity options.