In July this year, Xiaomi launched the Redmi 7A budget smartphone in the Indian market. Now, just a couple of months later, the Chinese company is all set to launch its successor — Redmi 8A in India.
Xiaomi has today confirmed through a tweet that the Redmi 8A smartphone will get launched in India on 25th September. Further, the teaser image shared by the company also sheds light on some of its features.
The announcement poster has the front panel of the smartphone, which clearly shows that unlike the Redmi 7A, its successor will come with a waterdrop notch display which the company refers as Dot Notch.
The promotional landing page for the smartphone on the company’s official website highlights the phone’s features, which includes “immersive viewing experience” hinting at bigger display, “more power to you” which hints at bigger battery and faster charging. It is also highlighting the phone’s design philosophy, camera, and others.
The Redmi 8A has already been certified by TENAA, which has revealed some of the key specifications of this upcoming device. The phone will come with a 6.2-inch Dot Notch display with 1520 x 720 pixels screen resolution and will be powered by a 2.0GHz octa-core processor but the exact variant is not yet known.
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As for the memory configuration, it is expected to come in three variants — 2GB + 16GB, 3GB + 32GB, and 4GB + 64GB. It will also have a microSD card slot for expanding the storage capacity up to 512GB.
Coming to the camera configuration, the smartphone will be featuring a 12-megapixel camera on the back and an 8-megapixel snapper on the front side. Running on Android 9 Pie with MIUI 10 out-of-the-box, the device will be powered by a 5,000mAh battery.
The TENAA listing of the Redmi 8A reveals that it measures 156.3 x 75.4 x 9.4 millimeters and the weighs 188 grams. The listing says that the phone will come in eight colors — Black, Red, Blue, Pink, White, Green, Purple, and Grey. However, as usual, only three or four color variant will be made available.
