Xiaomi launches Redmi 4A, a phone priced for low budget spenders who aim for decent specs

Xiaomi launches Redmi 4A, a phone priced for low budget spenders who aim for decent specs

xiaomi Unknown   11:02 PM

Xiaomi, Chinese brand is finally launching a low budget phone in Indian market. Xiaomi is enjoying the number three position in Indian market. The company success secrets lie mainly on high-end smartphones that are offered at a low price.

Now, Xiaomi is launching yet another low-end phone by LTE with VoLTE smartphone called Xiaomi Redmi 4A. It is the low end of smartphone that is priced at 5,999. The phones ar available in Dark gray, Gold and Rose color options.

The phones will be available on Amazon and will officially go for sale on 23rd March 2017. In India, Amazon has announced launch offers. Idea network provides bundle data for Redmi 4A users.

28Gb data offer on Xiaomi Redmi 4A

Idea prepaid users by buying Xiaomi Redmi 4A from Amazon India will get 28GB of 4G data by recharging with Rs.343. The daily data consumption limit with this pack is 1GB. Along with the data, Redmi 4A users will also get 300 minutes of free calls per day and 3000 local and STD SMS  per month.The validity of this recharge pack is 28 days. The offer will expire on June 30, 2017.

Xiaomi Redmi 4A launch offers on Amazon

The Amazon website will be provided launch offers include a Rs.50 on official Mi cases for the smartphones the price of cases Rs.399 to Rs.349. and Rs 200 promotional discount for the store.the store credit will be provided only to the first 1000,000 customers; the eligible members to credit within 90 days of alleging the offer.

Specifications of Xiaomi Redmi 4A

- The smartphone has a polycarbonate body, hybrid dual sim card slot runs MIUI 8 based on Android    6.0 marshmallow.the smartphone 5-inch HD.

- The Display (720X1280),1.4Gz quad-core Snapdragon 425 SOC coupled with Adreno 308 GPU and 2GB RAM.it comes with 16GB internal storage, supports micro SD card up to 128GB and has IR blaster.

- The rear camera has a 13-megapixel sensor with PDAF, a 5-lens system, a f/2.2 aperture and is backed by a LED flash.The front camera bears a 5-megapixel sensor with a f/2.2 aperture and 3120mAh battery with fast charging support.

with 34 perent share, Chinese Smartphones lead the Indian and Global brands

with 34 perent share, Chinese Smartphones lead the Indian and Global brands

Smartphone Praveen Penugonda   10:13 PM

Chinese smartphones recorded 34 percent share and lead Indian markets in Q3 to become largest bloc in India, according to India smartphone Q3 monitor by Counterpoint Research. While Indian smartphone brands lead Indian markets with 41.5% share in the beginning of the year they slump to 33.8 per cent in Q3. 

The shares of Global brands have also declined from 35.9 per cent in Q1 to 32.2 per cent in Q3 and that indicated chinese smartphones makers estabilished  a strong foothold in Indian and Global counterparts.

One important reason is the agresssive prices coupled with  features  these chinese smartphones come up with when compared with the same features in estabilished brands the price difference is clearly higher. So following this statergy the chinese brands were able to garner the attention of middle class, which occupy major chunk in India.

Senior analyst Tarun Pathak, said that association of chinese brands like OPPO nad Vivo during Indian premeir league facilitated these brands to garner large public attention and in way boosted their market share. Lenovo and Motorola lead the pack of chinese brands with combined market share of 9.6%, followed by Xiaomi with 6.45%,Vivo with 4.88 ,Oppo (4.18) and Gionee recorded 4.14% share completing the Top 5.

Shashin Devsare, official chief of Karbonn Mobiles said that while hardware specifications are getting commoditised, it becomes very important to provide simplified user experience to consumers and that is where Indian brands hold the key. Karbonn mobiles recorded 3.08 percent of smartphone share in Q3.

Image credits & source: ET Times

IDFC Bank Launches "Aadhaar Pay" App to help Citizens transact even with out Smartphone

IDFC Bank Launches "Aadhaar Pay" App to help Citizens transact even with out Smartphone

Smartphone Praveen Penugonda   4:31 PM

IDFC bank announced "Aadhaar Pay" app to help citizens without a smartphone to pay digitally with the help of fingerprint. Aadhaar Pay,was launched by the government on Sunday and developed by IDFC banking association with Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).

The government is thinking to unify all bank accounts with Aadhaar .Currently over 1 billion people in India own Aadhaar card Out of which 400  million bank accounts are linked with Aadhaar.

Although Smartphone usage has seen a surge in recent times due to the competitive price war among companies only 268 million people own smartphone at the end of Q32016 according to counterpoint. Another advantage with Aadhaar Pay is that there is no transaction fee levied on either the consumer or the merchant. 

How it works?

Merchants have to download the app on their android phones.The phone is attached to a fingerprint scanner

The consumers have to input the details of the bank name Aadhaar number and scan their fingerprint.

Fingerprint acts a password. Once authenticated merchant receives payment from the bank

However, it works only with Aadhaar linked bank account

The app is already available at over 100 merchant outlets in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, and Bihar.