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Xiaomi Mi Band Pulse / 1S with heart rate sensor official, priced at $16

Xiaomi Mi Band 1S

Xiaomi introduced the Mi Band, it’s first fitness and sleep tracking band in July last year, and it was launched in India earlier this year. Now it has introduced the Mi Band Pulse (1S), it’s successor with a heart rate sensor or photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor to measure heartbeats, as expected. This lets users get their detailed heart rate measurement easily without wearing any complicated accessories. The design is still the same with aluminium body and it monitors your fitness and tracks your sleep as well, can vibrate to wake you up and comes with IP67 ratings for water resistance, similar to the first Mi Band. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Band Pulse / 1S with heart rate sensor official, priced at $16”

Xiaomi sells more than 1 million smartphones in India in Q3 2015

Xiaomi has reported a biggest ever quarter in India since it started its operations in the country in 2014. The Chinese smartphone maker has sold more than 1 million smartphones in India in Q3, 2015 (July, August and September).

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Xiaomi Mi Band 1S set for a November 11th launch – Will carry a heart rate monitor

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We have already seen photos of the Xiaomi Mi Band 1S which has a design very similar to the first version itself save for the heart rate sensor. Apparently, the Mi Band 1S is scheduled for an announcement on November 11th.

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Xiaomi set to launch their smartphones in Africa this month

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Xiaomi, which is now the world’s third largest smartphone manufacturer has announced plans to enter the African market this month. Their smartphones will go on sale in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya during the middle of November.

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Xiaomi Mi Protect insurance service launching in India soon starting from Rs. 275

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Xiaomi is all set to introduce new Mi Protect insurance service plans that will cover Mi devices in case of accidental and liquid damage, offer free home pickup and drop, and free second servicing within 1 year from activation. These plans will be priced at Rs. 275 for Redmi 2 and Redmi 2 Prime smartphones and it will cost Rs. 499 for Mi 4i, Mi 4 and Mi Pad. This was first spotted by BGR.in.

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Xiaomi launches new Mi Band (White LED) and Mi In-Ear Headphones Basic, price cuts for Mi devices during DiwaliWithMi sales

Xiaomi Mi Band White LED

XIaomi already announced DiwaliWithMi in India from November 3rd to 5th. Today it has launched a new version of Mi Band with White LED in India for Rs. 799, which will go on sale tomorrow on Mi.com. This will come only with White LED light, compared to multicolored LED lights in the original version that was launched earlier this year. According to Xiaomi’s research most of the Mi Band users don’t change the progress light color even though there are four colors to choose, so they have launched the new version with White LED at an affordable rate. Continue reading “Xiaomi launches new Mi Band (White LED) and Mi In-Ear Headphones Basic, price cuts for Mi devices during DiwaliWithMi sales”

Xiaomi launches Rainbow themed AA batteries

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Xiaomi is known to make a really wide portfolio of products as they have acquired quite a many number of companies that manufacture different products. One of their latest products is a set of AA sized batteries that have a Rainbow theme.

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Xiaomi India announces DiwaliWithMi sales event from 3-5 November

Its festival season and it’s also that time of a year when deals flow in. After Amazon and Flipkart, Xiaomi India will be bringing you some sweet deals.

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Xiaomi’s festival sale is dubbed as DiwaliWithMi and the company is promising to bring some exclusive offers for its products. The sale will happen at Xiaomi’s online portal – Mi.com from 3-5 November and you’ll have an opportunity to save some money.
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Xiaomi MIUI 7 global stable build released

Xiaomi has released MIUI 7 global stable version for some of its smartphones, as it promised last week. It introduced MIUI 7 back in August at the Redmi Note 2 launch event back in August. The global beta ROMs and over-the-air (OTA) updates were released for smartphones running on developer version at the end of August. Continue reading “Xiaomi MIUI 7 global stable build released”

Xiaomi Mi 4c Benchmarks

Xiaomi introduced the Mi 4c, a variant of the Mi 4 smartphone for the Chinese market last month. We brought you the unboxing and the photo gallery of the smartphone recently, here we have its benchmarks. The Mi 4c is powered by an Hexa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 64-bit 20nm processor that has two bigger ARM Cortex A57 cores clocked at 1.82GHz per core and four smaller ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.44GHz per core with 600 MHz Adreno 418 GPU. It has 2GB / 3GB of RAM depending on the variant, we have the 2GB RAM variant. It has a 5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) display and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop)-based MIUI 7 on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 4c Benchmarks”

Xiaomi Mi 4c Photo Gallery

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Xiaomi announced Mi 4c, the company’s latest smartphone in the Mi 4 series in September. We have got our hands on the phone that is only available in China as of now. We already brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, now let us take a look at the hardware and specs of the phone in the photo gallery.

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Huawei outshines Xiaomi to become No.1 smartphone maker in China: Report

Huawei has dethroned Xiaomi to become the No.1 smartphone maker in China in Q3, 2015, as per a latest report from Canalys. This is the first time Huawei has taken the top position in China.

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Xiaomi Mi 4c Unboxing

Xiaomi introduced the Mi 4c, a variant of the Mi 4 smartphone for the Chinese market last month. As you can see, we managed to get the smartphone from iBuygou for about US$ 245. Here we have the unboxing of the smartphone.

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Xiaomi MIUI 7 global stable ROM and OTA update to roll out starting from October 27

Xiaomi introduced MIUI 7 back in August at the Redmi Note 2 launch event back in August. It released global beta ROMs and over-the-air (OTA) updates for smartphones running on developer version at the end of August, as it promised at the launch event. Today it has announced that MIUI 7 global stable version will roll out from October 27, 2015. It will also be released for the Chinese version of the smartphones from the same date. Continue reading “Xiaomi MIUI 7 global stable ROM and OTA update to roll out starting from October 27”

Xiaomi Square Box Bluetooth Speaker Unboxing

Xiaomi introduced its Square Box Bluetooth Speaker few months back. It recently introduced its successor as Mi Bluetooth speaker that comes with a built-in microphone and microSD card support. Check out the unboxing video of the Square Box Bluetooth Speaker.

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