 "Redmi Note 8 Cosmic Purple colour variant to go on its first sale at 12 pm today")
Last month, Xiaomi launched the Note 8 duo — Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro — in India. At the time of launch, the Redmi Note 8 was released in three colour variants: Neptune Blue, Moonlight White, and Space Black. Now, over a month later,
Xiaomi has announced a new colour variant for the smartphone
called Cosmic Purple, after
teasing the same in a tweet yesterday
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Redmi Note 8 Cosmic Purple colour variant.[/caption] The new Redmi Note 8 Cosmic Purple colour variant was made official via a tweet by Redmi India
, which also reveals that the new variant will go on sale for the first time on 29 November at 12 pm during its Black Friday Sale on mi.com.
As per a listing on Amazon India
, the new colour variant will also be available on the e-commerce website on the same day, at the same time.
Notably, the Redmi Note 8 Cosmic Purple variant is only new in terms of the colour option and does not offer any new software or hardware specification. The pricing of the variant also remains the same. The 4 GB RAM + 64 GB storage model is priced at Rs 9,999, whereas the 6 GB RAM + 128 GB storage variant is priced at Rs 12,999. You can also read our review of the Redmi Note 8 Pro here .
Redmi Note 8 specifications
The Note 8 comes with a 6.3-inch FHD+ IPLS LCD panel with a teardrop notch on the front and a minuscule chin at the bottom. The phone uses the Snapdragon 665 chipset to power the device and it has RAM options starting from 4 GB going up to 6 GB with storage options of 64 GB and 128 GB. There is also a quad-camera setup on the Note 8 with a 48 MP primary sensor including a wide-angle, macro and telephoto sensors which have resolutions of 8 MP, 2 MP and 2 MP respectively. The phone has a 4,000 mAh battery and it supports 18W fast charging in-built along with a Type-C port. The Redmi Note 8 also comes with Alexa smart assistant integration. Amazon Fab Phones fest is also ongoing right now and during this sale, smartphones like iPhone XR (Review) , Samsung Galaxy M30, Oppo A5 2020 are available on discount. If you want to buy a Xiaomi phone or accessory, you can buy it now during the ongoing Xiaomi Black Friday sale . Realme is also hosting its own Black Friday sale and giving offers on Realme X2 Pro (Review) , Realme C2 (Review) and more. OnePlus is also celebrating its five-year anniversary on Amazon by giving discounts on OnePlus 7 Pro (Review) and OnePlus 7T (Review) till 2 December.