This was a week with a couple of big launches and one very welcome price cut - the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4[1] got a permanent price cut bringing the starting price under Rs. 10,000. Read on to know more about all the news you can use from the week that was. The Redmi Note 4 is the most popular phone in India[2] by some estimates, offering great value for money[3], and it's gotten cheaper with a permanent price cut of Rs. 1,000 on its starting price of Rs. 10,999, bringing the phone into the sub-Rs. 10,000 category[4].
That's for the 3GB RAM/ 32GB storage variant, while the upper end variant with 4GB RAM, and 64GB storage is now available at Rs. 11,999. The new price is available via both Mi.com and Flipkart[5]. The 2GB variant on the other hand appears to have been discontinued. The phone otherwise has a 5.5-inch full-HD display, and is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 625 SoC, with a 13-megapixel camera on the rear, and a 5-megapixel front camera, along with a large 4100mAh battery.
Best Phones Under Rs. 10,000[6]
This price cut comes at a time when Xiaomi[7] is stepping up against the competition, tying with Samsung[8] as India's top smartphone brand, according to a report by IDC[9]. As per the report, both brands have 23.5 percent market share, followed by Lenovo[10] (including Moto), Vivo[11], and Oppo[12], which are all under 10 percent. Other brands add up to another 27.6 percent. According to the IDC report[13], Samsung's bestselling models were the...