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.



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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  • November 26, 2012
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Why Xiaomi is Selling a Set-Top Box

Earlier today, we finally got the details on Xiaomi’s new set-top box. But thanks to a presser...

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  • November 15, 2012
  • at 12:40 am
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Xiaomi Confirms Acquisition of Duokan, Startup Maker of Kindle and Apple TV Apps

Chinese phone-maker Xiaomi has today confirmed its acquisition of Duokan, a startup maker of e-reade...

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  • November 13, 2012
  • at 12:45 pm
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Xiaomi Launches New Theme Store, Begins Charging for Third-Party Themes

Xiaomi’s MIUI platform has been totally free since its inception. And while the OS itself rema...

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  • November 6, 2012
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Xiaomi Launches New Video App, Rumored TV Set-Top Box Likely Coming Next

With each passing moment it seems more and more likely that Xiaomi really is making a set-top box li...

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  • November 3, 2012
  • at 12:13 am
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Why I Like Xiaomi

My first real impression of Xiaomi was quite negative. Although I was aware of the company beforehan...

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  • October 30, 2012
  • at 10:54 am
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Ship Dates Announced for Xiaomi Mi2: First Units to Ship Oct 30

If you’re one of the Xiaomi fans who preordered Xiaomi’s new Mi2 Android handset, you ma...

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  • October 27, 2012
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Founder Lei Jun Talks About Xiaomi, China’s Disruptive Phone-Maker [INTERVIEW]

If you’re familiar with the Chinese tech scene, chances are you are also familiar with serial entr...

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  • October 15, 2012
  • at 1:41 pm
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Xiaomi TV Set-Top Box Service Suspended, Regulatory Kerfuffle Perhaps to Blame [UPDATED]

Just one week after the launch of Xiaomi’s set-top box for streaming media to TVs, the company...

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  • November 23, 2012
  • at 10:30 am
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Xiaomi Box on sale soon

Xiaomi Launches Streaming Media Box for Just $60, Will Support Apple’s Airplay Too

Xiaomi is today capitalizing on the success of its Android-based smartphones by launching a stream-t...

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  • November 14, 2012
  • at 3:22 pm
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Confirmed: Xiaomi to Take on Apple, Launch TV Set-Top Box on November 14th

Just six days after we gave you an exclusive peek at a new video app from China’s Xiaomi that ...

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  • November 9, 2012
  • at 11:46 am
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [Nov. 3, 2012]

This week we saw more developments in the mobile chat application space, as a number of Asia-based c...

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  • November 3, 2012
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Xiaomi TV Box Spills its Guts In Possible Leaked Photo

With rumors swirling that Xiaomi, China’s disruptive phone-maker, is about to release an Apple...

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  • November 2, 2012
  • at 9:01 pm
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Rumor: Xiaomi’s Apple TV-Like Set-Top Box Coming Next Month

A couple weeks ago we passed along an interesting rumor that Xiaomi, the company that more or less s...

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  • October 30, 2012
  • at 1:08 am
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Is Xiaomi Making a Set-Top Box Like Apple TV?

The Chinese tech scene is full of rumors, but boy, this one is interesting. Sina Tech says that acco...

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  • October 18, 2012
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Qihoo Bests Xiaomi, Will Unveil China’s Cheapest Quad-Core Phone Tomorrow

The Chinese software company and search engine Qihoo 360 (NYSE:QIHU) doesn’t want to let the u...

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  • October 10, 2012
  • at 1:00 pm
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