Xiaomi’s mystery Mi4i has been sighted on numerous occasions with today’s latest news suggestion that the Mi4 variant could cost as little as $161!
In just a few days time, Xiaomi will head to India for a big announcement. It’s all a hush hush at the moment, but many insiders believe that Xiaomi will be their to announce a new, low-cost, variant of the Xiaomi Mi4.
Seen in official documentation, the Xiaomi Mi4i, is rumoured to be similar to the current Mi4 but a more affordable price tag to compete with the current crop of Chinese flagship phones with Mediatek MT6752 chipsets.
Benchmarks of the phone show it with a Snapdragon 615 chipset, 2GB RAM and Android 5. The current Mi4 with higher specification costs just 1799 Yuan in China, but a report today says that the Mi4i could retail for as little as 999 Yuan!
With the Redmi models at 599 and 699 Yuan, a 999 Yuan Mi4i could be a nice addition to the mix for anyone wanting a metal and glass bodied phone with good performance at a reasonable price.
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Need to update the title of this story. $161 Yuan makes no sense, 161 yuan is about $26, $161 is about 998 yuan. This is one of my favorite sites but it is need of an editor.
I realize what it is meant to be. But a headline should be the last thing a mistake like that happens. It is the first thing a reader sees when checking out an article.
Sorry I was a Navy Yeoman for 7 years, editing is my pet peeve lol.
Can I ask when you’ll start using JPG for the news story title image format?
Currently they’re always png (sometimes even with alpha channels) and size kb-wise are 5x to 8x (often 500kb to 800kb) when if JPG it’d be less than 100kb.
Andi, Still need to change the link bar address, it shows yuan. I read the link first stating 161 yuan, while page was loading and my jaw just dropped in my coffee.
MIUI uses roughly 4GB, leaving you with 12GB of free space. I have the 16GB regular MI4 and I have never a storage problem but I also store all my photos in the cloud. There are plenty of free cloud storage options out there, I use Google Drive which gives you 15GB but there are some that you can get as much as 1TB for free.
Their lowest model is 16GB, 4 of it will be reserved by the system leaving you with 12 at the very most.
It won’t be price at $161 India for sure. There’s Redmi note selling at 9999 and they would not kill that product. My guess is it would be priced between 12000 INR ($190) – 14000 INR ($222)
The Redmi Note is listed as 8999 INR on their website which is roughly $145. Even so they are different models for different consumers. The Note is for those who like bigger screen phones. The market is big enough that they both can sell well.
No No! the price you have listed for Redmi Note that is Mediateak 3G one which are currently ban in India and Redmi Note 4G sails on Rs 9999 ($166) and by the way it have no chance for sailing around ($161) seeing the Indian condition it will be priced at Rs 12,000 ($200)
My mistake you are correct. Why are they banned in India? Is that part of the Ericsson lawsuit?
Yes thats why, Ericsson currently dont have anything to do just banning each an every company from Xiaomi to Apple and making profit by lawsuit
Redmi note as of now is not selling, it has been available for long time and not selling
MI4 16 GB is priced at 18K and thats not selling either
For the SD 615 there is already yureka which is selling at 9K, and that would be the toughest competitor for MI4i, if they price as you say at 12K then it would not much for being 3K pricier for the same specs, so 14K is out also. So if they price it at 10K as they mentioned there is big chance that Xiaomi becomes the market leader again
The MI4 has not sold in India as much as MI3 and believe me, MI3 even at 13K will sell well because it was a nice phone and good value for money. but if Xiaomi Intends to capture the market now, then MI4I at 10K is their best bet, because as of now, not many of their phones are selling with Redmi 2 with 2GB ram expected soon.