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Here in the China, most of our smartphones are relatively affordable, thanks to the cheap labors. Now, even big name like Huawei, is making a play to break out of the low-cost smartphone market. Today, Huawei and Qihoo 360 has jointly announced a dual-core Android handset called “Huawei Shine (华为闪耀)”, which priced at 1,499 yuan ($242). Yup, that sits on the horizon with the just-released 1.2GHz Xiaomi phone.
Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun and Meizu’s CEO Jack Wong used to be friends and business partner, but for some reasons, they became rival subsequently. Recently, Xiaomi posted a thread on their forum seeking testers for MIUI V4 ROM beta test on the Meizu MX (dual-core version), and the image above is from one of the testers. At the moment, there’re couple of bugs were found on beta test, including overheating problem, restart problem and signal problem. More shots after the break…
Xiaomi tech just announced a 1.2GHz dual-core smartphone, featuring basically everything the same as the original M1 except with a slower processor and less RAM. The company named this is as the “Youth” version, which is aiming at younger audiences like students. The sales will be done through lucky draw and it begins from now until the 18th. Xiaomi’s CEO said they will only have 150,000 units for sale, and each unit will be priced as low as 1,499 yuan ($242), while the original version is at 1,999 yuan ($322). Before Xiaomi announced the “Youth” version M1, they actually launched two short films in relation to “Youth”. Unfortunately, it’s in Chinese and there is no English subtitles. The short films are embedded after the break.
Xiaomi is a legend. The company had already sold 1.8 million units in the past 9 months and they still sees surge in demand. In the following, we are going to take you a tour into Xiaomi’s production chain to see how they keep up with massive orders.
There are so much news from China that passes by that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Here are the Chinese tech news that have left behind because we are just too busy or too lazy to post. There are stories on Xiaomi’s revenue, the secret of Huawei CEO, Alibaba profit lose, Tencent Wechat and so on, check them out after the break. Video for this week: political humorist Stephen Colbert has some advice for the Chinese blind activist … Hope everyone have enjoyed your weekend and a fresh start to your week.
Chinese companies are rushing to build their own mobile phone operating systems based on Google’s Android platform. The companies include up-and-coming Chinese mobile phone makers Huawei, ZTE, Lenovo and Xiaomi, and internet service portals like Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba. Most have outsourced their Android projects to a Chinese company called ArcherMind, which based at Nanjing city, the capital of Jiangsu province in China. ArcherMind is one of the largest Chinese companies devoted to develop Android-based software, they are the software engineers team behind the Android’s face-changed in China …
Yesterday, Xiaomi held “Mi-Fan festival” to celebrate the second anniversary with all the Mi-Fans. The event endured for six hours and offered various Xiaomi’s accessories with discount to thanks its customers. Apart from the announcement of China Unicom has sold over million units of Xiaomi phone, Li Wan Qiang, another founder of Xiaomi Tech, has disclosed the second-gen Xiaomi phone is in the work and the company is targeting to sell around four million units this year.
An inside source claimed Xiaomi has told Foxconn to expect a boatload of Xiaomi phone orders for the second quarter of this year, and Foxconn has reportedly added four new production lines in preparation for it. Meanwhile, the source also claimed Sharp and Toshiba have received huge amount of orders from Xiaomi to produce 4.0-inch displays. All these rumors may mean the next generation Xiaomi phones will be out very soon!
Update: Rumor about Xiaomi to launch a $145 Xiaomi phone is false.
Probably most of you are familiar with MIUI, it is quite outstanding among the other Android-based custom ROM. Xiaomi, the developer of MIUI, is reportedly to introduce a new version of MIUI that based on Windows Phone. The rumor was brought up after Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun disclosed they’re negotiating with Microsoft to launch a Windows-based Xiaomi phone …
UPDATE: Some info about the specs of the Windows phone-base Xiaomi
A Xiaomi fanboy probably has inspired Xiaomi’s CEO to make its devices compatible with multiple operating systems after he successfully installed Windows XP on Xiaomi M1. During a conference, Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun disclosed the company is in discussion with Microsoft to develop a Windows Phone-based Xiaomi phone. Also, an inside source claimed Xiaomi is planning to unveil a 1GHz dual-core smartphone that priced as low as 899 yuan ($145).
Update: Lei jun said on Weibo that they’re not planning to make a $145 low-end Xiaomi phone, they’ll rather work on the high-end category instead. Sorry guys, forget about that incredible rumor.
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