Xiaomi’s has become the most popular smartphone brand in India. Especially, Redmi Note Series make it most selling smartphone brand in India. Check the journey of The Xiaomi’s Redmi Note Series in India:
July 2014
Xiaomi enters the Indian market in the year 2014, takes the market by storm with Mi 3 and sells more than 100,000 smartphones in Q3 2014 Source: IDC July ’14
November 2014
Xiaomi launches the first Redmi Note and Redmi Note 4G in India, bringing octa-core performance and a big screen to the masses in one package. Redmi Note 4G becomes the first 4G Android smartphone under rupees 10K in India.
August 2015
Xiaomi becomes a part of the Make in India initiative, launches local smartphone manufacturing in partnership with Foxconn in Sricity, Andhra Pradesh.
December 2015
Redmi Note Prime becomes the first Redmi Note smartphone manufactured under the Make in India initiative
March 2016
Redmi Note 3 takes the market by storm, becomes the first-ever Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 smartphone in the world. Brings a massive 4000mAh battery and a metal body to the Xiaomi Redmi Note series segment for the first time.
June 2016
Redmi Note 3 sells 500,000 units and becomes the number one online smartphone in Q2 2016 as per IDC and goes on to sell 3.6 million units by the end of 2016.
September 2017
More than 5 million units of Redmi Note 4 sold in the first 6 months and becomes India’s highest shipped smartphone during QI, 02 and 03 2017 Source: IDC Redmi Note 4 goes on to sell 10 million units in its lifecycle.
October 2017
Xiaomi becomes the #1 smartphone brand in India as of Q3 2017
February 2018
Redmi Note 5 launched with the first Full-Screen Display. Redmi Note 5 Pro brings an exceptional dual camera setup for the first time to the Xiaomi Redmi Note series. 4000mAh battery, 1.8GHz octa-core processor, Qualcomm Snapdragon 636, Rear camera: 12 – megapixel + 5 – megapixel and front camera 20-megapixel
June 2018
Redmi Note 5 series sells over 5 million shipments within the first 4 months.
August 2018
Redmi Note 5 Pro be- comes India’s #1 Dual camera smartphone as per Canalys.
November 2018
Redmi Note 6 Pro is the advanced version of Note 5 Pro with Four cameras, all-new AI portraits. It has Display – 6.26-inch, Processor – octa-core, Front Camera – 20-megapixel + 2-megapixel , Resolution – 1080×2280 pixels, RAM – 4GB, Storage – 64GB, Rear Camera – 12-megapixel + 5-megapixel, and Battery Capacity – 4000mAh.
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I am already using Redmi pro 5 – good battery life and performance.