Xiaomi is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its budget smartphone sub-brand Redmi. The company’s executives have taken to social media to share the date when the first-ever Redmi smartphone was born.
Redmi’s Hongmi was born on 31st July 2013
On Weibo (a Chinese microblogging website), Xiaomi General Manager Wang Hua shared that Redmi’s first smartphone was announced 10 years ago on this very date. A decade ago, the executive had also participated in a special press conference that didn’t even use a projector. He recounted the unveiling of Hongmi, which is basically the Redmi 1. The Chinese tech giant’s first smartphone was showcased to a small group of media.
At that time, Lei Jun (Xiaomi Founder) and some China Mobile executives were also present. Soon after this conference, the device broke new records after it went on sale. With this phone’s launch, the company shifted the perception of smartphones under 1,000 Yuan (roughly 140 US Dollars) in China. However, the waves it created in the smartphone market didn’t just end there since the device was popular in the global market as well in the following year.
To recall, the first Redmi smartphone was equipped with a quad core MediaTek MT6589T processor and supports 3G networking. It sported a 4.7-inch display that had a 720p resolution and 312 PPI. The device only had 1GB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage. The rear featured an 8-megapixel camera on the rear, while the front housed a 1.3-megapixel selfie shooter. A 2,000mAh battery pack powers the handset, which ran on Android 4.2 OS-based MIUI 5.
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