A new report has revealed that iQOO and POCO are planning on entering the offline market in India. The companies will apparently expand their presence in their region by having their offerings sold through offline stores in early 2022.

According to a 91Mobiles report, known tipster has revealed that the two Chinese brands are planning to finally enter the offline market in India. For those unaware, the Indian smartphone market relies on two major channels, which is offline and online. While the online channels dominate in major cities via Flipkart and Amazon, the offline segment is still a largely popular in tier 2 and tier 3 cities. This is also the segment where brands like Samsung, Vivo, Oppo, and even Xiaomi hold a strong presence in, with their budget offerings.

As of right now, iQOO and POCO have sold their handsets through online channel, but this might soon change. Reportedly, the companies are expected to launch their devices offline sometime between the months of January to March 2022. This move arrives as no surprise since these companies are also sub brands of established giants (iQOO-Vivo & Xiaomi-POCO) in the market.

Unfortunately, finer details about the roll out of devices in the offline channels is currently unknown. But the brands are expected to first begin entering this segment in tier 1 cities first, before moving forward and expanding to other regions within the country. Keep in mind that this is still an unconfirmed report so take it with a pinch of salt for now and stay tuned for more updates.

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Xiaomi announced the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98-inch back in March in China. This is the company’s Biggest TV by-far in the country. After multiple sales across its online channels, Xiaomi is finally ready to let users experience the 98-inch madness in a store and buy it offline.

As Mydrivers reports, Xiaomi‘s Mi Home Weibo has shared an official post regarding the arrival of the TV. Accordingly, Xiaomi will open a new Mi Shenyang Changbai Wanxianghui store on December 12 in China. The Mi Home store will be located in Shenyang city, northeast Liaoning Province of the country. Anyway, at the launch, the company says it will unveil the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98-inch for the first time in an offline store.

If you recall, the company, despite announcing the TV two weeks back, launched the 98-inch TV only on 9th April, 2020 in China. Priced at 19,999 yuan($3054), the TV was available for sale online via Xiaomi Mall and official website. Now, after about eight-months of sale, the company seems to be bringing it to the offline market as well.

That said, the improvement in sales could have made the company push it for the offline segment. To be precise, the company first sold over 1,500 units in less than 11 hours back in June. Later, it followed this trend with another 1,600 unit sales in a single day. Having said that, we need to wait and see how Xiaomi manages to attract the offline audience to buy this humongous TV.

Coming back, Xiaomi says the new Store will also include gifts for people who buy the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98-inch. One such is the Redmi Note 9 as per the company’s post. However, it’s unclear if the gift will be a 4G or one of the 5G versions. Additionally, there are other surprise gifts as well but they are supposed to be limited.

The Redmi Smart TV MAX 98-inch is as tall as the company’s founder Lei Jun. The TV is huge and complex to build as well. Consequently, installing the TV at your home also requires a special professional team. Some of the notable features include a 98-inch 4K UHD display panel(LCD) that has 85% NTSC color gamut, 192 dynamic backlight zones, MEMC motion compensation, custom Amlogic T972 SoC with 4GB RAM, 64GB storage, and more image quality tuning technology.

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