“Xiaomi and says the new prices of its Redmi and Mi phones will reflect on Mi.com soon”
No, this is not an April Fools’ Day joke. Xiaomi has announced that it has increased the prices of its smartphones starting midnight April 1st 2020. The move comes following the recent hike in GST rate from 12 percent to 18 percent that comes into effect today i.e April 1st. The GST revision announced by the Indian government means smartphone prices will be hiked. Xiaomi and says the new prices will reflect on Mi.com soon. At the time of writing this story, the prices of Redmi and Mi phones on Xiaomi’s website had not been revised. According to Mahesh Khatri of Mumbai-based Mahesh Telecom, OPPO has also increased the prices of its phones while Vivo and other brands will follow suit.
Xiaomi Global VP Manu Kumar Jain said that the company’s policy of maintaining less than 5 percent profit margin has offered no choice but to increase the prices of its smartphones. In addition to the GST rate hike, the depreciation of the Indian Rupee against the US dollar is another reason why the company has been forced to increase the prices of its smartphones.
Xiaomi will likely update its website with the new prices of its phones soon enough. We will report on the revised prices of Redmi and Mi phones once they reflect on Mi.com to give you an understanding of how much the prices have been hiked. That being said, you should expect phones like the Redmi Note 8 Pro, Redmi K20, and recently launched Redmi Note 9 Pro, among others, to be slightly more expensive now.
from 91mobiles.com https://bit.ly/2R2Wo1x
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