Xiaomi has started manufacturing its Mi LED TVs in India. The smartphone giant inaugurated its first TV manufacturing plant in Andhra Pradesh today. It will do so in partnership with Dixon Technologies. The campus is located in Tirupati and spread over an area of 32 acres.

The factory is set to employ more than 850 people and will have a production capacity of 100,000 Mi LED TVs per month by Q1 of 2019. The manufacturing plant will start local assembly of the Mi LED 4A Smart TV 32 inch and 43 inch variants for now. Xiaomi, might start the assembly of other models soon. The move is further cemented by a recent report by IDC [...]

The Xiaomi Mi TV 4 was launched in India on the 14th of February along with Redmi Note 5 and 5 Pro. At the time of the launch, the smart TV was priced at Rs 39999 which disrupted the Indian smart TV market. Since then, companies like Thomson, TCL etc have also launched affordable smart televisions to compete with the Mi TV 4. However, the Xiaomi Mi TV 4 now costs Rs 44999, which Xiaomi claims is in an effort to ramp up the supply after recent changes in PCBA import taxes and the depreciation of INR since the beginning of the year.

In our review of the Mi TV 4, we were really impressed with the product. The company’s AI-powered Patchwall UI needs a few more updates to be [...]

Xiaomi has just announced that the Redmi Note 5 Pro has received a price hike. The budget smartphone’s base model with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage will now retail for Rs 14999 instead of its original price of Rs 13999. Manu Kumar Jain, MD of Xiaomi India announced the news via Twitter and said that the price hike is an effort to ramp up the supply of the smartphone after recent changes in PCBA import taxes and the depreciation of INR since the beginning of the year.

Mi fans! In order to ramp up supply for #RedmiNote5Pro & #MiTV4 (55), we're marginally increasing the prices. This is because of the recent changes in PCBA import taxes & INR [...]