Xiaomi India claims selling over 1mn Redmi Note 4 within 45 days

After selling over 2 million Redmi Note 3 in the third quarter (Q3) 2016 in India, Xiaomi India is claiming a new record. The company claims to have sold over 1 million units of its Redmi Note 4 smartphone in India, since its first sale on January 23, 2017.

Manu Jain, managing director of Xiaomi India, made the announcement through a Facebook post:

"Redmi Note 4 has become the fastest smartphone model to sell a million units in India. Redmi Note 4 has sold more than one million units in 45 days from its first sale on January 23, 2017," Xiaomi said.

"Last month, we had also announced that Redmi Note 4's first sale was the largest sale in the history of the Indian smartphone industry when we sold more than 250,000 units in just 10 minutes across mi.com and Flipkart."

Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, which is available on Flipkart and company’s portal Mi.com, comes in three variants. The base model comes with 2GB RAM and 32GB storage with a price tag of Rs 9,999. The 3GB RAM+32GB storage variant is priced at Rs 10,999, and the higher end 4GB RAM+64GB storage version costs Rs 12,999. The smartphone can be bought from either Flipkart or company’s own portal Mi.com.

Adorned with a metal unibody design and a curved back, Redmi Note 4 sports a 5.5-inches full HD display, and the fingerprint scanner is at the back and 2.5D arc glass on top.

It is packed with 4,100 mAh battery and a Snapdragon 625 octa-core processor with Adreno 506 GPU. It gets a 13MP rear camera with PDAF, f/2.0 aperture and 5MP camera on the front. The Redmi Note 4 runs MIUI 8 beta based on Android Marshmallow. This is a dual-SIM smartphone but with a hybrid SIM slot. The phone supports 4G VoLTE in India.

The Redmi Note series has been very successful for the company in India. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 saw excellent sales figures as well, with the company claiming it had managed to sell 2.3 million units in the country following its 2016 launch. Recently, Xiaomi India reported over $1 billion revenue in 2016.

Jain has also announced a contest for fans, which gives one lucky winner a chance to win Redmi Note 4 smartphone (4GB RAM + 64GB storage variant). If you want to win the contest, simply share Jain’s Facebook post.