Xiaomi sets-up manufacturing unit and launches Redmi 2 Prime smartphone, that's made in India for India

The Chinese based consumer electronics manufacturer, Xiaomi have set-up their first manufacturing unit in India, that is at Sri City of the Andhra Pradesh state, following this is their latest make for the markets in the countryside, with a brand new smartphone, Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime, that has been launched as the part of "Make In India" initiative. It was the Chief Minister of AP, Chandrababu Naidu, who took the wraps off the new phone at the launch event.

"Redmi 2 Prime is the first smartphone from Xiaomi to be assembled in our facility in Sri City. We would like to thank Andhra Pradesh government for helping us to start local manufacturing within just six months. Initial talks started in February and today we have already started to sell the Redmi 2 Prime," said the Global Vice President of Xiaomi, Hugo Barra.

Xiaomi has exclusively partnered with Foxconn, which is the Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company, in the country for this facility and they're looking forward to manufacture all of it's smartphones to be sold in India in the country itself. As for now, the company is importing every component for making a smartphone and selling it in India, directly from China and is assembling at their Sri City plant. "This is like the typical chicken and egg story. Unless there is any smartphone manufacturing happening in the country, you cannot expect to get components locally," cleared Barra.

Seeking into the firm's past, Xiaomi has got the very same kind of manufacturing set-up in Brazil, that's too in partnership with Foxconn, making India their third settlement after the homeland of business in China, second in Brazil, respectively. "The unit in Brazil and the one here are exactly the same. It took us about three times more the time to start manufacturing in Brazil than in India," quoted Hugo Barra.

Talking about the new smartphone that made it's first appearance, the Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime is a phone that should exactly fall in line with their previously announced Redmi 2, but the new handset will arrive to the Indian bazaars with a hiked Random Access Memory and internal storage, compared to it's first iteration. So, the phone, that has hit the retail partner, Flipkart will feature a two gigabytes of LPDDR3 RAM and 16 gigabytes of eMMC on board storage, that is further expandable up to 32 GB via microSD card slot.

Other that that we have a 4.7-inches High Definition IPS screen of 1280 x 720 resolution pixels, which is in protection of full lamination display, 64-bit based Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor, clocked at 1,2GHz, eight megapixels main camera on the back with BSI sensor and aperture of f/2.2, a fair two megapixels front facing snapper, again equipped with BSI sensor. The device is powered by a 2,200mAh battery with quick charging, dual-SIM card support with 4G LTE connections and runs Android's version 4.4.4 KitKat, based on proprietary MIUI 6.

According to the reports, Xiaomi have partnered with Redington, to basically vend their new smartphones in retail stores of the nation. The phone maker is all set to get their foot stepped into the offline merchandising, after expanding love for the brand in India, by just selling the smartphones online, through their e-commerce partner, Flipkart.

The newly made, Redmi 2 Prime will first be available online and is scheduled to be soon made available in retails stores, in the near future. "Redmi 2 is the most popular smartphone in terms of sales after the Redmi 1S. With this we are looking to reach more customers," said their Global VP.

So, if you really wish to grab the modern smartphone, head over to Flipkart now and bag one for yourself in White or Grey shades at only ₹6,999, that's affordable around 110 United States Dollars, unlocked.

Source - The Indian EXPRESS