Xiaomi aims to sell 1 million Redmi Note 7 units in January

New Delhi : Xiaomi is targeting 1 million Redmi Note 7 units sale in January, said a company's executive on Weibo.

Wang Teng Thomas, product director at Xiaomi, replied to a query on whether there will be sufficient amount of units for Redmi Note 7 during the flash sale.

With increasing competition and dipping smartphone Chinese market, achieving 1 million figure will not be a cakewalk; however the company has achieved such figures in the past.

In a separate post, Wang Teng also revealed that after establishing the Redmi brand, Xiaomi will be using Mi brand to focus on high-end devices and the consumers shouldn't expect to see deals on Mi flagship phones much longer. He was responding to a Xiaomi consumer, who wrote that Redmi Note 7 and Mi 8 are currently the company's best value-for-money phones as Xiaomi is running a promotion for Mi 8, which brings down the price of Mi 8 base model to just CNY 2,099 (roughly Rs. 22,000). The phone was originally launched with a starting price-tag of CNY 2,699 (roughly Rs. 27,500) in May last year.

Xiaomi had revealed Redmi Note 7 to the customers last week. It comes with a price tag of CNY 999 (roughly Rs. 10,200). The phone features a 6.3-inch full-HD+ (1080x2340 pixels) display and is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 SoC. Redmi Note 7 also packs up to 6GB of RAM and 32GB or 64GB of inbuilt storage.

Additinally, the smartphone has been studded with a dual rear camera setup with a 48-megapixel primary sensor and a 5-megapixel secondary sensor. It also carries a 13 MP front shooter for brilliant selfies.

The Redmi Note 7 also includes a 4,000mAh battery as well as the usual connectivity options like WiFi a/b/g/n/ac and Bluetooth v5.0.