Seems like August will have a flurry of device launches, as the month begins with the launch of Lenovo K5 Note in India, followed by the Galaxy Note7 global launch and now, alongside the launch of OPPO F1s, the Chinese Internet brand Xiaomi that has put it’s foot into several electronic categories has launched its next budget device, the Redmi 3s smartphone in India.
Redmi 3s draws inspiration from no other than Redmi Note 3, says Hugo Barra at the launch. A metal body with crafted aluminum alloy giving it a weight of 144gm, and it is curved design. A silver version with white face, a Gold version with the gold ring around the fingerprint sensor, and a Dark grey version are the options that would be available.
The Redmi 3s is already available in China for quite some time and in India, we haven’t seen a successor to the Redmi 2 Prime for months. The Redmi 3s comes with a 5-inch HD display (with the resolution 1280 x 720 pixels) and it is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 octa-core chipset (Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A53 & quad-core 1.1 GHz Cortex-A53) and two variants having different RAM capacity and storage options, though the device carries a MicroSD card slot for the storage expansion.
The Redmi 3s comes with a 13-megapixel rear camera with the F/2.0 aperture and phase detection autofocus. The rear camera comes with the LED flash and the camera can record 1080p videos. The 5-megapixel camera on the front comes with the F/2.2 aperture and it too can record 1080p videos.
The device comes with a fingerprint scanner (only on the 3GB RAM variant) on the back, just like on the Redmi Note 3, and the build quality as well is quite similar here – a metal body. This is a Dual SIM phone with both the slots supporting 4G SIM cards. The other connectivity options include Wi-Fi, GPRS/ EDGE, Bluetooth, GPS/ A-GPS, Bluetooth, Glonass, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, and MicroUSB.
The Xiaomi Redmi 3s has a 4100 mAh battery. It is a 685 WH/l battery density, and thus Xiaomi has been able to pack such a large battery in a 5-inch device.
The pricing is already out on Flipkart, with the variant having 2GB RAM and 16GB internal storage priced at Rs. 6999. Check out the pricing here. There’s also a Redmi 3s Prime with 3GB RAM and 32GB internal storage, and its pricing is set at Rs. 8999.
