{"id":888,"date":"2018-08-24T07:21:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T07:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=888"},"modified":"2018-08-24T07:21:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T07:21:43","slug":"xiaomi-debuts-poco-sub-brand-in-india-with-f1-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=888","title":{"rendered":"Xiaomi debuts POCO sub-brand in India with F1 smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi,<\/strong>\u00a0Aiming to capture a greater share of the lucrative Indian smartphone market, Chinese handset maker Xiaomi on Wednesday launched its new sub-brand POCO in the country with &#8220;F1&#8221; smartphone at a starting price of Rs 20,999.<\/p>\n<p>Powered by Qualcomm snapdragon 845 processor, the device comes in three storage variants.<\/p>\n<p>While the 6GB+64GB variant will cost 20,999, the 6GB+128GB and 8GB+256GB variants will be available for Rs 23,999, and Rs 28,999 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>They will go on sale on Mi.com and Flipkart from August 29, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;POCO stands for &#8216;a little&#8217; and we believe in starting small but dreaming big,&#8221; Jai Mani, Head of Product, POCO Global, told reporters here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a small outfit within Xiaomi, POCO has the freedom to start from scratch, zeroing in on the product choices and technologies that matter,&#8221; Mani said.<\/p>\n<p>The device runs Android 8.1 Oreo and features LiquidCool technology to dissipate heating.<\/p>\n<p>It will receive the Android P update in the near future, the company said, adding that in India, the MIUI for POCO incorporates taxi, music and video streaming services.<\/p>\n<p>The device houses a 4,000 mAh battery and comes with quick charge feature.<\/p>\n<p>The smartphone sports 12MP+5MP primary AI dual camera and 20MP front camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi,\u00a0Aiming to capture a greater share of the lucrative Indian smartphone market, Chinese handset maker Xiaomi on Wednesday launched its new sub-brand POCO in the country with &#8220;F1&#8221; smartphone at a starting price of Rs 20,999. Powered by Qualcomm snapdragon 845 processor, the device comes in three storage variants. While the 6GB+64GB variant will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}