Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus might arrive in India as Xiaomi Redmi Note 5

Xiaomi announced the Redmi 5 and the Redmi 5 Plus back in December, but the phones are currently available through official channels only in China. An arrival of the devices is expected in February, according to a tweet from Clinton Jeff, Product PR at Xiaomi.

Xiaomi is also having a monthly discussion with its Mi Community on the Redmi Note series. This might be an overture to the introduction of Redmi 5 Plus as a Redmi Note 5 in the global markets.

Both the Redmi Note 3 and the Redmi Note 4 were first tested by “Mi Explorers” under the Mi Generation program that will be a point of discussion at the upcoming meeting. From the looks of it Xiaomi will relaunch it for the Redmi 5 phones.

The Redmi Note is a very popular line in India with the Note 4 scoring some 5 million sales, 1 million of them in the first 45 days. Changing the Redmi 5 Plus name to Redmi Note 5 seems logical, especially knowing that Xiaomi gives different names to the same phone - just check out the Redmi Note 5A Prime or the Redmi 4X.

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Reader comments

  • Mickaa

Hi GSM admin, Redmi 5 Plus already on sale in Malaysia officially on 6 Feb 2018. Presumably the first outside China market to received it with global ROM. Price: Redmi 5 (32gb) - RM679 / USD$123, Redmi 5 Plus (32gb) - RM749 / USD$149. The Redmi ...

  • Saifi

That can not be true... The Redmi Note 5 would be a different device. I think it would be similar in specifications to Redmi Note 4 with SD435 Chipset (as per Xiaomi's previous practice of downgrading).

  • Inzi123

Are you sure about that?