This is one of those titbits emerging out of China, the Apple of China – Xiaomi is looking to launch an affordable smartphone which will cost a meagre CNY 399 (around $65; N12,000 in Naira). The smartphone is said to be in the works but no name has been tipped for now.
According to GizChina, Xiaomi is reported to have invested in a chipmaker called LeadCore and the smartphone is said to be powered by this chipset. The aforementioned is the Leadcore LC1860 SoC, which is said to use a 2GHz Cortex-A7 cores (no number specified) and a 28nmfabrication processor alongside Mali T628 GPU.
The Leadcore LC1860 is said to support up to 2K LCD displays; record videos up to 720p at 120fps and 1080p at 60fps, apart from 4G LTE, 3G, GSM/ EDGE, WCDMA, LTE FDD, and TD-LTE network connectivity. The unnamed budget smartphone is said to pack a an HD (720p) display, 1GB of RAM and support 4G LTE. Asides that not much info has been revealed about the upcoming smartphone from Xiaomi.
Xiaomi is also said to be working on the Redmi Note 2 which would be the successor to the Redmi Note Phablet. The company also released a 4G version of the phablet, in form of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G.
The Redmi Note 2 is rumoured to feature an Octa core Mediatek MT6595 (the chipset uses big.LITTLE architecture with 4 Cortex-A17 cores & clocks up to 2.2GHz clock speed) with 3GB of RAM, 5.5-inch display, 4G LTE, NFC and would pack a 4500mAh battery.
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 is also heavily tipped to launch in four storage variants – 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB. The first three are priced at $165, $215 and $245 respectively while the price of the 128GB variant has not been announced..
Source – gadgets.ndtv.com
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