The phone will, nearly certainly, going to sport identical specs to the Chinese variant, which essentially means it will ship with a 5-inch 720p (1280 x 720) display, along with 2GB / 3GB of RAM and 16GB / 32GB of expandable internal storage. Xiaomi will host a live-stream of the launch event as well, and this is will be a new addition to Xiaomi’s budget Redmi series.
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A photo of original Xiaomi Redmi Pro, aka Xiaomi Mi Note 4. Now, the company will be launching the Redmi 3S smartphone in India on August 3. The handset first hit China back in June this year, possibly making the subcontinent the first market it’ll be sold in outside of its home country.
Last week, rumours surfaced that Xiaomi was going to launch its first ever virtual reality headset on Monday, however, that did not happen. It will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 chipset, which comes with a 1.8 GHz octa-core CPU with four Cortex-A72 cores and four Cortex-A53 cores. The storage space of the device is as mentioned in the variants above. The company would be selling the device in Gold, Silver, and Grey color options.
Lenovo K5 Note also boasts of a fingerprint sensor and runs Android Marshmallow out of the box. It will be priced below Rs. 8,000.
There’s a higher battery capacity provided on the Redmi Note 3 and it has a higher resolution camera on the back, but on the other side, the Lenovo K5 Note comes with the latest OS version as well as a higher resolution front-facing camera.
While the Xiaomi Redmi Pro flaunt a dual-camera setup with 13MP Sony IMX 258 sensor for still images and has a dedicated depth of field image sensor, and a 5MP Samsung sensor. The manufacturer offers mobile in 2 variants on with internal storage of 16GB and another with 32 GB, and both the version can be explainable up to 128GB via provided microSD slot.
According to Android Pure, Xiaomi will instead opt for a single camera with a dual-tone LED flash unit to keep it company.
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The smartphone also packs an enduring 4,050 mAH battery which is coupled with a fast charging through the USB Type-C port.
