Xiaomi and Realme have made a record breaking sale this week in India. The company few hours ago announced that it has sold more than 6 million smartphones in India this week during the Amazon’s Great Indian Festival and Flipkart’s Big Billion Days sales. This was shared via the company’s twitter handle where they wrote;
Excited to share the biggest news that we’ve sold 5.3mn+ #Xiaomi devices in last 7 days.
That makes a whopping 525 devices sold every minute since the start of
@amazonIN@Flipkart
#DiwaliWithMi sale. Ur love for #Xiao️mimi has been phenomenal as always.
Thank you, Mi fans! ❤️
The tweet reads;
*Breaking Records*
We’ve sold over 3.8M+ #Smartphones.Which means an impressive growth of 50%+ over the BEST #Diwali sale ever by any brand, which was by #Xiaomi last year.
The #DiwaliWithMi sale is the biggest ever in history & #Xiaomi is the No.1 Brand by a huge margin. pic.twitter.com/ncljELo7aW
— Mi India for #MiFans (@XiaomiIndia) October 5, 2019
Realme, on the other hand, sold over 2.2 million smartphones during the same period on Flipkart and claimed to be the smartphone category leader on the e-commerce site during the Big Billion Days.
2.2 Million+ smartphones sold during the #realmeFestiveDays! Happy to announce that we continued to be the smartphone category leader on @Flipkart during the #TheBigBillionDays. Thank you for the amazing response. pic.twitter.com/eHBuHCmqRn
— realme (@realmemobiles) October 5, 2019
The company hopes to increase sales just as the Diwali festival arriving later this month comes October 26.