Lenovo K3 Note smartphone is set to go on sale for the first time via a flash sale on Flipkart at 3PM on Wednesday. Registrations for the sale ended at midnight Tuesday and the company says over 5 lakh people have shown an interest to purchase the Lenovo K3 Note. (Update: Lenovo says 47,440 units of the K3 Note were picked up by customers in 5.2 seconds.)
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Launched in India in late-June, the Lenovo K3 Note was first unveiled for China in March. Priced at Rs. 9,999, it supports both LTE bands in India (FDD-LTE 1800MHz Band 3, and TDD-LTE 2300MHz Band 40). The smartphone runs Android 5.0 Lollipop that's skinned with the Vibe UI. It features a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) display with a pixel density of 401ppi.
The dual-SIM smartphone is powered by a 64-bit 1.7GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6752 processor coupled with 2GB of RAM.
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The K3 Note packs a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual-LED flash and a 5-megapixel front facing camera. Inbuilt storage on the handset is 16GB, which is expandable via microSD card (up to 32GB). Connectivity options on the smartphone include 4G (TD-LTE/ LTE), Wi-Fi, GPS/ A-GPS, Bluetooth, and Micro-USB. The K3 Note measures 152.6x76.2x7.99mm and weighs 150 grams.
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The large-screen Lenovo K3 Note packs a 2900mAh battery, rated to deliver up to 39 hours of talk time on 2G and 16 hours on 3G, apart from 11 days of standby time.