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The affordable Redmi 1S is also offered by Celcom and it can be yours Free on a Postpaid contract. Similar to DiGi’s offering, the Redmi 1S is bundled on a RM78/month commitment plan with 24 months duration. The device is tied with Celcom First Prime (RM40) with bolt-on 1GB of data (RM38). While the Redmi 1S is free, you would need to fork out RM450 for advance payment which will be rebated back to your bills across 10 months. To recap, the Redmi 1S is Xiaomi’s most affordable model that’s priced at RM419 outright. It gets a 4.7″ HD 720p display, a quad-core 1.6GHz Snapdragon 400 processor with 1GB of RAM, 8GB storage, 8MP + 1.6MP camera and a decent sized 2,000mAh capacity battery. For more information, head over to Celcom’s Redmi 1S page.

The next big thing from Xiaomi will be announced very soon on the 22nd July. This is likely to be their upcoming smart phone that has been rumoured as the Mi 4. The teaser came from Xiaomi’s President Lin Bin and he added that the event will be about “The journey of a piece of steel metal”. The Mi 4 has been leaked a couple of times revealing a clean front design and a metallic frame at the sides. Being a successor of its current Mi 3 smart phone, Xiaomi would continue to pack the best spec which is likely to be a 2.5GHz Quad-Core Snapdragon 801 processor with 3GB of RAM. You can also expect 4G LTE support which is currently lacking on its current models. The event will be held in Beijing at 2:00PM.

DiGi was the first telco in Malaysia to offer the Xiaomi Mi 3 on both postpaid and prepaid bundles. When the Mi 3 was launched locally, it went on sale at RM889. Just recently Xiaomi had reduced the price of its hot-selling smart phone to RM769. It is understood there are cusomters who have ordered their Mi 3 through DiGi and have yet to receive their device. Some are getting irate to find their new purchase had just dropped in price even before receiving them. To address this issue, the folks at DiGi had sent an email to its Mi 3 buyers that they will be offering additional RM110 rebate which will go into their 2nd bill. So far there’s no word on its stock delivery but DiGi assures that they are working hard to get it delivered soon. UPDATE : According to DiGi, the device will be shipped on 30th June, which is 3 days after its original shipment date.

Apart from the Redmi 1S , Xiaomi is also preparing to release another smart phone in Malaysia. After Redmi 1S’s appearance , another Xiaomi model gets listed today which bears the model 2013121. This is the high-spec version of its 5.5″ Redmi Note. Announced about 3 months ago, the Redmi Note comes in 2 versions – a high-spec model featuring MediaTek’s 1.7GHz Octa-Core processor with 2GB of RAM and a low-spec version which runs on a 1.4GHz Octa-Core unit that’s mated to 1GB of RAM. The rest of the specs for both models are identical with the front 5.5″ IPS display doing 1280×720 pixels resolution, 13MP main with 5MP front facing camera, 8GB of on-board storage and a large 3,200mAh capacity battery. There’s also an expandable microSD and Dual-SIM slots which one supports 3G while the other with 2G. In China, the high-spec RedMi note is sold at 999 Yuan (about RM520) while the lows-spec unit is priced at 799 Yuan (about RM415). The Redmi Note was a hot seller in China wi...