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Chinese smartphone manufacturer  Xiaomi announced on Saturday that its popular Mi 3 flagship will go on sale in India on on Monday, or Republic Day. The company notes that limited units are available, on a first-come-first-serve basis.  Part of the firm's Republic Day offers (which includes the  Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G being made  available without registration this long holiday weekend - from January 24 to January 26), the  Xiaomi Mi 3  will be available to customers who register their interest before 2pm IST on Monday.  To purchase the Mi 3, customers are asked to like the Mi India Facebook announcement  post  and share it with at least 3 friends, and then visit the dedicated promotion page  on the company's India site at 12pm IST on Monday, and then enter the email address associated with their Flipkart account to register. Users will have until 2pm IST on Monday to register with their Flipkart account's email address, and if they...

Xiaomi, apart from  launching  the Mi Note phablet, also revealed the Mi Note Pro. The company stressed that the Mi Note Pro is even better than the Mi Note - and looking at the specifications, it would certainly appear to be. #MiLaunch115  - The most epic flagship phone of the year gets even better with #MiNotePro !  pic.twitter.com/bNuQQgD1i7 -- Mi India (@MiIndiaOfficial)  January 15, 2015 The  Xiaomi Mi Note Pro  has been priced at CNY 3299 (approximately Rs. 32,900) and will enter mass production by the end of March. The highlight of the Mi Note Pro is that it packs an octa-core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor (quad-core ARM Cortex A57 and quad-core Cortex A53) alongside 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM and Adreno 430 GPU. Running Android 4.4.4 KitKat-based MIUI 6, the Mi Note Pro supports a single SIM. Much like the  Xiaomi Mi Note , the Mi Note Pro also features a 5.7-inch display; though with a higher QHD (1440x2560 pixels) resolution off...

Yu Yureka went on sale today, and as expected stocks ran out in just 3 seconds. When you pitch 3,00,000 registrations against a measely stock of 10,000 units, 3 seconds is conceivable. Even if YU would have added 5 times the stock, the result wouldn’t have been much different. Xiaomi on other hand has been selling around 50,000 Redmi Note every week and the third flash sale today lasted for almost 3 Minutes. YU recently admitted that they failed to estimate public response and will be ramping up production for future flash sales. Needless to say, this has left several fans frustrated, who have been waiting for more than a month and have now resorted to online forums and social media channels to vent out their frustrations. Even if Micromax ramps up the stock, it will take several weeks before the demand dials down. YU Yureka is an extreme value for money 4G smartphone with 5.5 inch HD display, powered by 1.5 GHz Snapdragon 615 octa core chipset with 2 GB DDR3 RAM and 16 GB expa...

If rumours are to be believed Xiaomi may launch a new very thin, almost bezel-less flagship device According to leaked news, Xiaomi will be holding an event at the Beijing National Convention Center on January 15 at 2 PM where it's expected to launch its new ultra-thin flagship smartphone. Also leaked is a poster, which when translated says that the device will be thinner than the wings of cicada, which is an insect common in China. Xiaomi will also sell tickets to the event on Jan 8.  The rumours about the new smartphone point to an almost bezel-less big screen device- probably more than 5 inches in screen size, with a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels that can rival the Galaxy Note 4 and the iPhone 6 Plus. The phone is also expected to look similar to the Mi4. The processor is rumoured to be either Snapdragon 805, or 801, coupled with 3 GB of RAM. The phone’s back camera is rumoured to be a 20.7MP one, and a fingerprint scanner could also be in the mix. Unsur...