After luring mid-range smartphone buyers with the launch of the Redmi Note 5 series, Xiaomi is back again to rock the budget segment as well. The Chinese giant has today launched the Redmi 5 series, what it calls a compact powerhouse, in India.
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The Redmi 5 range starts at a retail price of £7,999 for the 2GB RAM+16GB ROM variant and will be sold exclusively via Amazon, according to the leaked official Mi.com listing page attached below. This smartphone comes as a successor to last year's Redmi 4, which had not been updated until today. It is also the smaller copy of the Redmi Note 5, which was launched last month in India.
However, you will have to shell out INR 8,999 to get your hands on the 3GB RAM+16GB ROM variant of the Redmi 5. While we couldn't find the product sales listing for this variant of the device, we have spotted the price of the same buried in the code of Mi.com- the website. It can be seen in the picture below:
And it seems that these are the only two Redmi 5 variants that Xiaomi has decided to bring to India. It has not released the 4GB+64GB variant, which was recently added to the lineup in China.
