Xiaomi's Redmi Note 3 has achieved yet another milestone as the company claims that the smartphone has become the bestselling online phone in India. According to a tweet by the company, 2.3 million units of the smartphone have been sold to date. To recall, the Redmi Note 3 was launched back in March in India.
The Chinese company claims that a unit of Redmi Note 3 is sold every 7 seconds in India and that one out of every nine smartphones shipped online is a Redmi Note 3.
In order to celebrate this feat by the smartphone, the company is organising a contest that allows users to win Redmi Note 3 or coupons by playing a game. In the game, the players are asked to type the sentence given by the company in less than seven seconds. Users will get three chances per day till Thursday.
If you fail to type in first three attempts, you can get more chances by sharing the company's post on Facebook. Users are allowed to take advantage of this chance twice a day. Any user can have up to 9 chances a day.
Last month, the company announced that it had shipped 1.75 million units of the Redmi Note 3 in just five months of its launch. The company further pointed to an IDC report that said it had shipped 880,000 units of the smartphone in the online channel in Q2 2016.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 packs a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) display. The smartphone is powered by 1.4GHz hexa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 processor coupled with 2GB of RAM.
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