Xiaomi is looking to raise a large amount of funding that will increase the company valuation to a whopping $40 billion, according to a latest report from Bloomberg.
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Xiaomi is bringing another 1,00,000 units of the Redmi 1S smartphones for India on November 4th. As a surprise, the company has announced that, lucky fans those who tried to buy Redmi 1s and failed, will find the device added to their cart on Flipkart on November 4th. It did the same thing for Mi 3 during Diwali, but it only offered 25,000 units for lucky ones. This time it did not announce how many lucky fans would get their Redmi 1S smartphone in their cart automatically.
Xiaomi introduced their first tablet, the Mi Pad back in May, now a 9.2-inch tablet with 1280 x 720 pixels display and a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor with Adreno 306 GPU has surfaced on GFXBench database. The tablet that runs on Android 4.4.4 (KitKat), according to the listing, doesn’t have a name yet. This was first spotted by Gizmobic. Continue reading “Xiaomi tablet with 9.2-inch display, Snapdragon 410 SoC shows up in benchmarks”
Xiaomi has clarified that its smartphones are not a security threat. The Chinese smartphone maker has made the clarification after the Indian Air Force (IAF) had issued a circular to its 175,000 personnel to shun the use of Xiaomi smartphones either by them, or their family members on suspicions that the company is using their phones to spy on its users on behalf of the Chinese government.
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In a bid to boost global expansion, Xiaomi is migrating international user data outside of China. Data belonging to the privately owned company’s non-Chinese users will be moved in several phases to Amazon Inc servers in the United States and data centres in Singapore.
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Xiaomi entered India with hopes of making a decent foray into the highly competitive smartphone market where right pricing equals massive success. Traditionally, Samsung knew this and Motorola stumbled upon it, Xiaomi should have known better. With the Mi3, the company woefully underestimated online demand and ended up discontinuing its sales soon, only to introduce a much cheaper model into the market, the Redmi 1S. On paper, the device is just too good to be true at the price point it comes at. For a shockingly low price of Rs. 5,999, the Redmi 1S comes with a large 720p screen, a powerful quad core processor, a 8 MP camera, 8 GB of memory and so on. No other phone currently offers these kinds of specifications at this price point, but the natural reaction for something that’s too good to be true is always this – Is there a catch? With the same doubt in our minds, here is the review of the Redmi 1S.
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Xiaomi has sold 100,000 units of Remi 1S smartphones in just 4.2 seconds in today’s (October 14th) sale in India today. September 30th sale took 13.9 seconds. For the festive season Xiaomi offered 1,50,000 Redmi 1S smartphones for the Indian customers on October 6th, which took several hours or more than half a day to sell out. Continue reading “100,000 Redmi 1S smartphones sell out in 4.2 seconds in Oct 14th sale in India”
Xiaomi introduced the Mi Band, the company’s first fitness band at the Mi 4 launch event back in July. Priced at just 79 Yuan in China or approximately US$ 13, this is the cheapest fitness band till date. Is this on par with the other fitness trackers that cost five or ten times more than this? Let us find out.
Xiaomi has finally rolled out an update for Indian users that fixes several issues, including heating issues with improved thermal control algorithm to regulate temperature, improved RAM availability in MIUI to prevent background apps getting killed , better UI performance by fixing issues such as frame rate drops and UI lag when performing intensive tasks like gaming. Continue reading “Redmi 1S v45 OTA update fixes heating issues, improves RAM management for Indian users”
Xiaomi, the popular Chinese smartphone maker has hired former-Google employee Jai Mani as lead product manager in India.The announcement was made by Hugo Barra, Vice President of International Operations for Xiaomi on his Google+ account.
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Last week Xiaomi asked the fans to stay tuned for something special next week, today the company has announced that 1,50,000 or 1.5 lakh Redmi 1S smartphones would go on sale on October 6th, 8AM on Flipkart on its Big Billion Day sale. Registrations are not necessary for the sale . Continue reading “1,50,000 Redmi 1S smartphones to go on sale in India at 8 AM on Oct 6”
Xiaomi had already announced that it would bring the Mi 3 for sale again during Diwali, after it was temporarily discontinued in August. Today, Mi India and Flipkart have announced a festive new offer for its fans who have never given up trying to buy a Mi 3. Under this offer, those who tried to buy Mi 3 at least five times or more will find the device added to their cart on Flipkart on October 6th. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 3 will be automatically added to Flipkart cart on Oct 6 for some who repeatedly tried and failed”
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”
