Xiaomi claims to have sold 2 million smartphones in India in Q3 2016

Xiaomi, Chinese smartphone, has claimed to have sold over 2 million smartphones in India in the third-quarter of 2016.

Lei Jun, CEO, Xiaomi, announced in an open letter to his employees, that in October, the company sold 1 million smartphone units in just 18 days.

A recent IDC report had claimed that the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 and the Redmi 3S series "fuelled the online shipments" to a large extent for the company. The IDC report had also claimed that Xiaomi for the first time made it to the top five smartphone vendors list based on shipments. The research firm had said that Xiaomi grew over 2.5 times over the same period last year.

Xiaomi soon after its Diwali sale had announced that it managed to sell half a million smartphones in just three days. The Redmi 3S (along with Redmi 3S Prime), on the other hand, was also the top-selling product on Flipkart during its Big Billion Days Sale while Redmi Note 3 was the best-selling smartphone of Amazon's Great Indian Festival sale.

Recently, Flipkart, one of the online retail partners of Xiaomi, had claimed that it managed to sell one million Redmi 3S and Redmi 3S Prime smartphones in India. The smartphone was launched in the country in August this year, and was made available on Mi.com and Flipkart online.