Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 goes official with 4,000 mAh battery, $140 starting price

Just when you thought the upcoming Redmi Note 2 Pro couldn’t possibly get any more fetching, Xiaomi revealed the metallic mid-ranger is actually called Redmi Note 3, which signaled extra enhancements besides a build quality upgrade and added fingerprint sensor.A second Tenaa visit confirmed a 3GB RAM/32GB ROM variant, obviously set to cost a bit more than the standard 2/16 gig model. But as it turns out, the Xiaomi ...

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Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 Pro shows off slim gold metal body in official pic

Pre-release mystery is so 2014. Nowadays, honesty seems to be the best policy leading up to a big mobile hardware announcement, which makes sense, given how resourceful leaksters are getting.Though still close to a week away from a formal introduction, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 Pro has had essentially all its secrets uncovered, via

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Xiaomi schedules November 24 Beijing event: Mi 5, Mi Pad 2, Redmi Note 2 Pro incoming?

If you thought the final stages of the calendar year couldn’t possibly bring any new, half-exciting Android hardware to light, and you had to wait until CES or MWC in early 2016 to check out the mobile industry’s “next big things”, you must not know how the Chinese market works.On the Western hemisphere, it’s all about Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas. But the Chinese New Year is celebrated in February, giving Xiaomi plenty of time to showcase some sizzling hot phones and/or tablets, then actually put them up for grabs when the shopping spree begins.Still, ...

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Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 Pro confirmed to sport metal build, fingerprint sensor

Seemingly taking an uninspired page from the playbooks of its Western-popular rivals, Xiaomi keeps serving up incremental Redmi-series upgrades, each more confusing than the model before it, but all so unbelievably cheap that we’d be willing to forgive them anything.Following in the footsteps of the Redmi Note 2 and Note 2 Prime unveiled back in August, as well as the Redmi 2A Enhanced Edition showcased earlier this week, the Xiaomi Redmi ...

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The Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 Pro’s metal back gets a clear photo leak

Wish Xiaomi branded its phones consistently? Maybe some of us in the United States do. After a poor showing in the Chinese startup’s domestic shipment tallies, we saw the manufacturer make an American pivot with the FCC showing off its Redmi 2S. That’s not the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 Pro, which we’re talking about here.Beyond the fact that we see the metal shell of the back, what we should be ...

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