The Xiaomi Mi Pad tablet has received an official price cut in India – its price has been slashed by INR 2,000, which is around $30 at current exchange rates. The news was announced by the Chinese company in a Tweet.

Our favourite #MiPad is now Rs.2000 off! Get yours now at Rs.10,999/- only on https://t.co/D3b3QtmvaT and @Flipkart. http://pic.twitter.com/L5TMbj0pxg— Mi India (@XiaomiIndia) January 15, 2016

Previously available for INR 12,999 (around $190) in the country, the Mi Pad will now set you back INR 10,999 (around $160). Online retailer Flipkart as well as Mi.com are now selling the tablet at the new discounted rate.

Launched in India back in March last year, the Mi Pad comes with a 7.9-inch (2048×1536 pixel resolution) IPS display, NVIDIA Tegra K1 SoC, 2GB/16GB memory configuration, 8 MP rear camera, and 6,700mAh battery. It runs MIUI 6 on top of Android KitKat.

It’s successor – the Mi Pad 2, which was launched in November – is yet to arrive in India.

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After the Coolpad Note 3, the company has launched a smaller and cheaper variant of the phone in the Indian market, the Coolpad Note 3 Lite.

The Note 3 Lite comes with a smaller 5.0-inch 720p display compared to the 5.5-inch display on its bigger brother. It also has a quad-core MediaTek MT6735 chipset, 3GB RAM, and 16GB storage with microSD support. It’s a dual SIM phone with LTE support on both slots. The phone is powered by a 2500mAh battery.

One of the best features of the Coolpad Note 3 was the fingerprint sensor, which made it the cheapest phone on the Indian market to have one. That title now belongs to the Note 3 Lite, as it carries over the fingerprint sensor from the bigger model. It also retains the 13 megapixel camera on the back and 5 megapixel camera on the front.

The Coolpad Note 3 Lite is priced at INR 6,999 ($103) and will be available exclusively on Amazon India. The phone will go on sale on January…

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Samsung will launch the dual SIM variant of its Galaxy Note5 flagship smartphone in India tomorrow. The 32GB model will carry a price tag of INR 51,400 (around $760), while the 64GB model will set you back INR 57,400 (around $845).

“In the high-end segment, we saw a very strong trend of people using dual-SIMs in our A series smartphones,” said Manu Sharma, director-product marketing at Samsung India. “Consumers want a premium device, which has a local SIM and space for another SIM.”

The South Korean company expects to extend its dual-SIM strategy to more flagship devices, including the Galaxy S6 edge and Galaxy S6 edge+ in the future. “We will continue doing products that will address an opportunity and we will drive the dual-SIM market in the premium segment, starting with the Note 5,” Sharma…

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