Desh ka smartphone – Xiaomi Redmi 5A was launched yesterday in India. The smartphone has been announced in two variants – 2GB RAM with 16GB internal storage priced at Rs 5,999 and 3GB RAM with 32GB internal storage priced at Rs 6,999. Xiaomi is offering a discount to first 5 million customers of Rs 1,000, which brings down the cost of 2GB RAM variant to Rs 4,999. Now Reliance Jio has partnered with Xiaomi to offer an additional cashback of Rs 1,000 on the Redmi 5A. However, this offer is applicable only on the base variant with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage.
After applying the cashback of Rs 1,000, the Xiaomi Redmi 5A will cost you just Rs 3,999. To avail the offer, Redmi 5A users will have to recharge with Rs 199 every month for the next 12 months. The Rs 199 pack will offer you unlimited local and STD voice calls, unlimited data (1GB daily) and unlimited SMS valid for 28 days. However, the first recharge should be done between 5 December and November 30, 2018.
The cashback will be credited to the user’s account in the form of 10 vouchers which will be worth Rs 100 each. So the total value of vouchers will be worth Rs 1000 and will be visible under My Vouchers in MyJio app. If the users do the Rs 199 recharger every month continuous for 12 months, they will get Rs 1000 cashback.
The Xiaomi Redmi 5A features 5-inch HD display with 720 x 1280 pixels resolution and a pixel density of 296ppi and is powered by a 1.4GHz Snapdragon 425 quad-core processor with Adreno 308 GPU. It comes with 2GB/3GB of RAM and 16GB/32GB of internal storage, and expandable storage up to 128GB via microSD. The Redmi 5A gets its strength from decent 3,000 mAh battery offering 8 days of standby time and runs on Android Nougat operating system wrapped under MIUI 9.
On the camera front, the Redmi 5A sports a 13-megapixel rear camera with PDAF, LED Flash, f/2.2 aperture, burst mode, panorama mode, HDR mode, and more. on its back, and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera for selfies with f/2.0 Aperture lens. Besides the smartphone offers dual SIM, 4G with VoLTE, Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n), Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, and a Micro USB port. The handset measures 140 x 70.1 mm x 8.35 mm and weighs 137g.