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Posts Tagged: Xiaomi
Xiaomi, the brainchild of investor and tech guru Lei Jun, redefined the Chinese smartphone market by launching an extremely powerful smartphone running on a smartly-designed Android skin at a price almost anyone could afford. Other companies have since followed Xiaomi into the cheap-smartphone fray, but the company’s success has proved difficult to copy. It has also proved difficult to predict, ignoring the expectations for a tablet launch and instead launching a set-top box for online video. Where will Xiaomi go next? We have no idea. But whatever the company does is sure to be interesting.
China’s Xiaomi Aims its MiTalk Messaging App at Southeast Asia, Japan, and Korea
China’s Xiaomi not only makes a range of popular Android-based smartphones (a whopping 7.19 mi...
Xiaomi: 7.19 Million Phones Sold in 2012, Considering North America Launch in 2014
China’s startup phone-maker Xiaomi seems to have arrived on the scene at the perfect time – ...
Xiaomi: 6.5 Million Phones Sold So Far
Chinese phone-maker Xiaomi has only been in the hardware business for only about a year and a half, ...
Xiaomi’s Sales Experiment on Sina Weibo Yields 1.3 Million Reservations For Just 50,000 Phones
Remember that interesting little social commerce experiment earlier this week in which Chinese phone...
Sina Weibo Hints at Social Commerce Shift with Xiaomi Phone Sales
If you’re not willing to face the Mayan’s mooted apocalypse on the 21st while clutching ...
Rumor: Xiaomi Set-Top Box Just Paving the Way for an Actual Television
We’ve written a lot about Xiaomi’s set-top box, which readers may recall has recently be...
Xiaomi Box Finally Gets Regulatory Approval, Can Soon Go on Sale
Remember the set-top streaming device from Xiaomi which was seemingly killed off by China’s me...
Xiaomi’s MIUI Android Skin Celebrates Having 10 Million Users
It’s not just buyers of the China-made Xiaomi phones – of which there were over seven mi...
Domestic Chinese Smartphones Attract Praise But Not Profits
We here at Tech in Asia have been very impressed with some of the low-cost smartphones coming out of...
The Weibo Social Commerce Model that Twitter Should Copy
Sina Weibo is not making money. Not yet at least. But it may have found a way to do so, as we saw fr...
Xiaomi Teases Phone Launch in Hong Kong
China’s young phone-maker Xiaomi has teased a possible expansion into Hong Kong. That’s ...
You’ll Never Guess What The9 and ZTE Are Teaming Up to Work On
The9 is one of China’s biggest gaming companies. ZTE is one of its biggest handset and telecom...
Xiaomi Buys Nearly 10% of Kingsoft Cloud Group
It’s clear that Chinese startup Xiaomi is not content to rest on its laurels making handsets. ...
How and Why Xiaomi Ran Afoul of China’s Media Regulator
We reported on Friday that Xiaomi’s TV set-top box had stopped working and speculated that the...
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