Xiaomi has sold 60,000 units of Remi 1S smartphones in 13.9 seconds in the fifth flash sale in India today. The fifth sale took more time compared to previous Redmi 1S sales. The company has announced that the next flash sale for the Redmi 1S would happen only on October 14th, and not on October 7th. It has asked the fans to Stay tuned for something special next week, October 7th. Continue reading “60,000 Redmi 1S units sell out in 13.9 seconds in fifth sale in India, next sale on Oct 14”
China is a market that bears a lot of resemblance to its Indian counterpart. This also means that there’s a lot of undiscovered talent in China, waiting to get the required exposure. This is what Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella feels. Continue reading “Microsoft CEO Nadella visits Xiaomi’s Lei Jun, What’s cooking?”
Xiaomi has announced that it would sell 100,000 phones a week in October during Diwali. This was revealed by Hugo Barra, Vice President of Xiaomi Global to . Yesterday at the GMIC Bangalore, Manu Jain, Head at Xiaomi India said that the Mi 3 would be available again in India during Diwali, weeks after it stopped selling the smartphone in the country. Continue reading “Xiaomi to sell 100,000 smartphones a week in India during Diwali”
Xiaomi Mi 3 went on sale in India back in July, but the company temporarily discontinued the smartphone in August to concentrate on the Redmi 1S smartphone. Today at the GMIC Bangalore, Manu Jain, Head at Xiaomi India said that the smartphone would be available again in India during Diwali. It will be a flash sale again, but he did not reveal the number of units that would go on sale or the exact date of sale. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 3 will be back on sale in India during Diwali”
Xiaomi unveiled the Mi Band, the company’s first wearable devices. It is a fitness tracker that tracks step and your sleep. Priced at just 79 Chinese Yuan (US$ 12.73 / Rs. 770 approx.), the Mi Band is one of the cheapest fitness tracking device in the world. We got to unbox the Mi Band, check out the unboxing, setup and our first impressions of it.
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Xiaomi introduced the Redmi Note in India back in July priced at Rs. 9,999, but it is yet to go on sale in the country. We brought you the unboxing of the smartphone recently, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by a 1.66 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592 processor which has 8 ARM Cortex-A7 CPUs and is based on 28nm HPM and has Mali 450-MP4 GPU and has 2GB RAM. It comes with a 5.5-inch HD display and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) based MIUI v5 ROM. Let us check out the synthetic benchmark scores. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note Benchmarks”
Very much a master at what it does, Xiaomi is looking to expand its horizon. Until now, it had only been fancy phones and tablets that everyone wanted and some actually got, but the 4 year old Chinese company is now looking to make headway into the health sector. Continue reading “Xiaomi, iHealth team up to produce blood pressure monitor that works with Android”
Xiaomi’s products are often affordable enough for the general public. However, if you thought there was scope for improvement, Xiaomi has you covered. According to outlets based in China, Xiaomi is working on an updated version of the Redmi Note, and a more affordable, knocked down variant of the flagship Mi 4. Continue reading “Updated Xiaomi Redmi Note, cheaper Mi 4 in the works”
Xiaomi introduced the Redmi Note in India back in July. It would go on sale in India in coming weeks. We managed to get one before it’s on sale in the country. Check out the unboxing video below. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note Unboxing”
Xiaomi sold 60,000 units of Remi 1S smartphones in 5.2 seconds in the fourth flash sale in India today. The company put up 20,000 units more than first three Redmi sales, and over 3.5 lakh people had registered for today’s sale. It took 3.4 seconds for the company to sell 40,000 units in its third sale last week. Continue reading “60,000 Redmi 1S units sell out in 5.2 seconds in fourth sale in India”
Chinese hardware vendor Xiaomi has launched a new Bluetooth game controller. Xiaomi has clearly put more thought into the functionality of the device than the name; it’s simply called Xiaomi Bluetooth game controller. As Xiaomi often does, there’s a special price for the first lot of buyers — 300 in number in this case — of just 1 Yuan, or US$0.16.
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Xiaomi has announced that 60,000 units of Remi 1S smartphones would be available in fourth flash sale in India. This is 20,000 more than first three sales. It took 3.4 seconds for the company to sell 40,000 units in its third sale earlier this week. This is less than both the first and second sales. Continue reading “60,000 Redmi 1S units to go on sale in India on September 23rd”
Xiaomi’s Mi 4 might be the newest Android phone from the 4 year old Chinese company, but it’s still the Mi 3 that is grabbing a lot of eyeballs. One, because it’s fairly affordable after a year of its launch, and two, because there hasn’t been a lot of change under the hood from the Mi 3 to the Mi 4. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 3, Mi 4 get AOSP Android builds courtesy 3rd party dev”
After releasing the public beta of the newest iteration of their MIUI ROM for the Mi 4 and the Mi 3, Xiaomi have now made it available for two of its older-gen phones, the Mi 2 and the Mi 2S. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 2, Mi 2S get Android v4.4 KitKat updates via MIUI 6”
Xiaomi has been creating a lot of buzz in the smartphone market thanks to its devices that bear a very competitive price tag. The latest one from the Chinese smartphone maker is the Redmi 1S. Unveiled in July, the Redmi 1 S has been on a huge demand in India and was announced for Rs 6,999 but soon slashed the price to Rs 5,999 . We recently unboxed the device and brought you benchmarks, now we are bringing you the photo gallery. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 1S Photo Gallery”
