Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Varun Kashyap & Sridevi Reddy
Co-Founders, Zithara.ai
Transforming Indian Offline Retail and Customer Engagement Using AI

Xiaomi has just announced that it sold 10 million units of Redmi 5A in India. Launched back at the end of November 2017, the Redmi 5A is the best-selling smartphone for nine consecutive months. Xiaomi announced this news on Twitter and mentioned the source of information as IDC. This isn’t surprising at all as the Redmi 5A is the best smartphone you can purchase under Rs 6,000, even today. To recall, the Redmi 5A sales hit five million back in March 2018 itself and it took another six months for Xiaomi to sell another five million units of the Redmi 5A. The Xiaomi Redmi 5A is also known as DeshKaSmartphone. Now, the Redmi 6A is here to fill the success shoes of Redmi 5A.

Xiaomi Redmi 5A: Road to Success in India
Xiaomi is always known for launching smartphones with aggressive prices in India. But with the Redmi 5A, it took the pricing to another level. The Chinese company announced the phone in two variants with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, and the other one with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. The price of the base variant was Rs 4,999 until five million units, while the premium variant sold for Rs 6,999. Once Xiaomi sold five million units, the price of the base variant got hiked to Rs 5,999, but still, the increase in price didn’t hurt the sales though.
The Redmi 5A is aimed at first-time smartphone buyers and rightly so. It offers decent performance at a price of Rs 5,999, thanks to the hardware it has. Now, the Redmi 6A is here to replace the Redmi 5A.
Marking this occasion, Raghu Reddy, Head of Categories and Online Sales shared, “These remarkable milestones are the result of the immense love and admiration from our millions of Mi Fans and customers. Redmi 5A is one of our blockbuster smartphone products due to the amazing features it offers coupled with great quality and truly honest pricing, which makes it an undebatable choice in its category and with the recently launched Redmi 6A we have made it even better. Xiaomi as a brand will continue to bring innovative products of great quality with best specs and ensure that it is accessible to all consumers across India.”