All the devices, Xiaomi Redmi Note 3, Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 and Mi Air Purifier 2 will go on sale in China on November 27 via Xiaomi’s official website and its Mi Home outlets. The device also has a fingerprint sensor in the back, which unlocks it in 0.3 seconds, according to the company. The 7.9in tablet has a Sharp 2K display with a resolution of 2,048 x 1,536 pixels and 326ppi (pixels per inch). It also runs MIUI 7, but there will also be a Windows 10 variant of the 64 GB version.
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The Mi Pad 2 comes with an all-aluminum body that is only 6.95mm compared to the 8.5mm of the previous model.
Increasing the focus on its nascent payment service, China’s Xiaomi has brought a fingerprint scanner to its range of affordable smartphones for the first time after it unveiled the third-generation Redmi Note in Beijing today. Meanwhile, the Mi Pad 2 is quite a bit thinner than its predecessor, and its 6190mAh battery is larger than the 5124mAh battery found in Apple’s iPad mini 4, a competing tablet of the same size. The Intel chipset packs a quad-core processor clocked at 2.2GHz and 2GB of RAM. This is paired with either 2 GB of RAM for the 16 GB internal memory variant or 3 GB of RAM for the higher end 32 GB internal memory model.
The new tablet has all metal body and measures 200.4×132.6×6. However, it has the same capacity cameras with the rear at 13-megapixels and front at 5-megapixels with phase-detection autofocus. These dimensions make the new Mi Pad model slimmer and lighter than its predecessor that was 8.5mm thick and weighed 360 grams. Either platform is available with 16 or 64 GB of flash storage.
The Redmi Note 3 handset also includes dual SIM slots, both of which support 4G networks.
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The smartphone will come in Silver, Gold, and Dark Grey. The 64GB version, meanwhile, will cost RMB 1,299 (P9,570 or $203). Although Xiaomi has been slowly expanding internationally (in 2014 it launched in neighboring countries, and in July this year it made its first leap out of Asia tostart selling in Brazil), the company has previously said it won’t start selling in the USA or Europe for “a few years”.
