According to the latest report from International Data Corporation (IDC), the wearables market in India has witnessed a growth in the second quarter of 2018 (2018Q2) as the overall wearables market grew 66% year-over-year (YOY) and 40% sequentially, making it the biggest quarter for the wearables category in India. Continue reading “Indian wearables shipments cross 1 million in Q2 2018, Xiaomi leads with 45.8% share: IDC”
Xiaomi today announced that it is migrating its Indian data to cloud service providers with infrastructure in India. This cover all Indian user data across Xiaomi e-commerce platform (mi.com/in), Mi Community (in.c.mi.com), Mi Cloud, MIUI (Xiaomi Market, feed, Mi Video, advertising, Mi Messaging, push notifications, etc) and Mi TV. Continue reading “Xiaomi migrates Indian users’ data to local cloud infrastructure”
After the Honor event, in which the company announced the Magic 2 with a full-screen display with ultra narrow bezels and a slide-out design, Xiaomi Co-founder and President Lin Bin posted a photo of the smartphone and said that it will be introduced in October. This will likely be the Mi MIX 3, successor of the Mi Mix 2S, which was introduced earlier this year.
ZMI, a Xiaomi funded- ecosystem company has collaborated with India-based Shyam Telecom group, to launch its range of product for the Indian consumers. Continue reading “Xiaomi-backed ZMI enters Indian market with range of accessories via Shyam Telecom Group”
Update – August 30: After beta update recently, Xiaomi has finally announced that it will roll out MIUI Global Stable ROM based on Android 8.1 (Oreo) update later this week.
Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 will get Global stable Android 8.1 Oreo update this week”
Xiaomi has posted a teaser confirming the launch of three new smartphones in the Redmi 6 series – Redmi 6, Redmi 6A and the Redmi 6 Pro. The company already confirmed that it will not launch the Mi A2 Lite in India, so it will be launching the Redmi 6 Pro instead. The event is set for September 5th.
Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 6, Redmi 6 Pro and Redmi 6A launching in India on September 5”
Xiaomi’s sub-brand POCO launched the F1, the company’s first smartphone in India last week, and has promised, it went on sale for the first time today at 12PM. The company has announced that it sold over Rs. 200 crore worth of smartphones in just 5 minutes. It said that this made it the biggest and fastest flagship sale ever. Continue reading “POCO F1 first sale generated over Rs. 200 crore in less than 5 minutes”
Xiaomi India today announced that it has sold more than 500,000 or 5 lakh units of Mi LED TVs in about six months of launch back in February. This includes Mi LED TV 4 55″, Mi LED TV 4A 32″ and Mi LED TV 4A 43″ sold across mi.com, Flipkart and Mi Home stores. The company said that it has become one of the fastest growing smart TV brands in India
Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi TV sales cross 500,000 units in India in over 6 months of launch”
Xiaomi Mi A2, the second installment from Xiaomi under the Android One program has been launched in India at a starting price of Rs. 16,999. While the Xiaomi’s MIUI is pretty much popular, the majority of the population, particularly in the Indian market, feels connected towards the stock Android and the vice versa with the Chinese UI. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi A2 Review”
Xiaomi’s sub-brand POCO launched the POCO F1 running on Android 8.1 (Oreo) with a skin on top, which company is referring to as MIUI For POCO. MIUI for POCO is regular MIUI with few new additions like POCO launcher, stock Android like quick setting tiles and others. During the launch, the company mentioned that the POCO Launcher (Beta version) will be available on Play store starting August 29th but the launcher has been leaked within a few hours of launch event. Continue reading “POCO Launcher (Beta) with app drawer for Xiaomi (MIUI) phones available for download [APK]”
Xiaomi’s sub-brand POCO launched the POCO F1, the company’s first smartphone in India. POCO F1 features a 6.18-inch Full HD+ 2.5D curved glass display with a notch, and is powered by Snapdragon 845 with up to 8GB RAM and LiquidCool Technology. It runs on Android 8.1 (Oreo) with a skin on top, which company is referring to as MIUI For POCO. MIUI for POCO is regular MIUI with few new additions like POCO launcher, stock Android-like quick setting tiles and others. Continue reading “POCO F1 MIUI Beta testing to start soon, kernel source to be released on August 29”
Xiaomi today reported its earning for the second quarter (Q2 2018) and first half of 2018 (H1 2018) ended June 30, 2018. It reported revenue of 45.24 billion yuan (US$6.60 billion), an increase of 68.3% year-on-year, among which international revenue grew 151.7% year-on-year to 16.4 billion yuan, accounting for 36.3 percent of total revenue. Operating (loss) was 7.5 million yuan compared to 3.6 million the same quarter last year. Adjusted profit grew 25.1% to 2.1 billion yuan year-on-year. All business
segments achieved strong revenue growth, with the fastest growth seen in our IoT and lifestyle products segment, said Xiaomi.
Xiaomi launched the second-generation Android One device – Mi A2 in India earlier this month. At the event, Xiaomi and Google promised Android version updates along with monthly security patch updates as the device was launched under the Android One program. Going by the history of first gen of Android One device Mi A1, Xiaomi has managed to provide monthly security patch updates, at the time of writing Mi A2 and Mi A2 Lite have already received August security patch while Mi A1 is yet to receive it. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi A2 Beta testing to start soon as the company opens registrations”
It’s safe to say that Xiaomi can be credited for kickstarting the whole affordable flagship trend with the launch of the Mi3 way back in 2014. There’s been ample competition since then with OnePlus standing out in particular as a success story. Enter POCO, an entire new sub-brand building on the strengths of Xiaomi. The POCO F1 is the first phone under this brand and like its namesake race, this is one screaming fast phone. We’ve spent a bit of time with it and here’s what we think. Continue reading “POCO F1 Hands On and First Impressions”
Xiaomi’s sub-brand POCO just launched the F1, the company’s first smartphone in India, as it had promised. It has a 6.18-inch Full HD+ 2.5D curved glass display with a notch, is powered by Snapdragon 845 with up to 8GB RAM and LiquidCool Technology. It runs Android 8.1 (Oreo) with MIUI on top with POCO launcher, and the company has promised Android 9.0 (Pie) update in Q4 2018.
