Xiaomi Category

XIAOMI

Jan 15, 2015

Xiaomi unveils the Mi Note with 5.7-inch Full HD display, Snapdragon 801 and more for $370

At an event in Beijing, China, Xiaomi today unveiled their latest flagship handset -- the Mi Note. The company is calling it the "most epic flagship device of the year" and has loaded it to the

XIAOMI

Jan 9, 2015

Xiaomi to launch Mi 4 in India in the ‘next few weeks’

Last year, Xiaomi entered the Indian market with a bang by releasing the its 2013 flagship -- the Mi 3 -- at an extremely tempting price. The Chinese company followed it up with the release of other

XIAOMI

Jan 4, 2015

Xiaomi unveils Redmi 2 with a 4.7-inch 720p display, Snapdragon 410 processor and more

Xiaomi today announced its latest budget entrant -- the Redmi 2. The handset comes with a 4.7-inch 720p IPS LCD and a 64-bit Snapdragon 410 processor, which comprises of ARM's Cortex-A53

XIAOMI

Jan 4, 2015

Xiaomi sold 61M smartphones in 2014

Xiaomi, the third largest smartphone maker in the world, managed to sell 61.12 million phones in 2014. In 2013, the company had managed to ship only 18.7 million devices, and a paltry 7.

XIAOMI

Dec 29, 2014

Xiaomi to launch next flagship in January 2015

Xiaomi's co-founder Bin Lin today announced via Facebook that the company has managed to raise US$1.1 billion in the latest round of funding at a valuation of US$45 billion. The

ANDROID 5.0

Dec 22, 2014

Download: Stock Android 5.0 Lollipop ROM for the Xiaomi Mi 3 and Mi 2

While Xiaomi is known to frequently rollout software updates for its devices, the company takes its own sweet time in updating its devices to the latest version of Android. There are multiple reasons behind this,

XIAOMI

Dec 15, 2014

Xiaomi made only $56 million in profits in 2013

Xiaomi has easily been one of the most popular companies of 2014 in the smartphone market. The company has raced to become the fifth largest smartphone maker in the world, even though it has little

XIAOMI

Dec 10, 2014

Delhi High Court bans Xiaomi in India due to patent infringement

The Delhi High Court in India today passed an interim injunction today to stop Xiaomi from importing, advertising, selling or manufacturing devices that infringe on SEP (Standard Essential Patents) from Ericsson. Apparently, Ericsson had repeatedly

CHINESE PLAYERS

Nov 24, 2014

Xiaomi launches the Redmi Note in India for Rs. 8,999

Xiaomi today released its third smartphone in India -- the Redmi Note. The handset will be available in single and dual-SIM variants in India from December 2nd on Flipkart. The front of the Redmi Note

XIAOMI

Nov 11, 2014

Xiaomi clocks $163 million in sales halfway through the Singles Day sale on Alibaba

Xiaomi's global vice president for Global operations, Hugo Barra, today announced that the Chinese company has already sold more than 720,000 Mi phones in only 12 hours of the Singles Day sale going

XIAOMI

Oct 30, 2014

Xiaomi is now the third largest smartphone vendor in the world

According to the latest report from Strategy Analytics, Xiaomi is now the number three smartphone manufacturer in the world. It was only just a few months ago that reports indicated that Xiaomi broke into the

XIAOMI

Oct 22, 2014

Xiaomi is migrating its users data from China to international servers

In a bid to boost consumer confidence, Hugo Barra from Xiaomi has revealed that the company has started migrating the data of its international users to servers located outside of China. By migrating data of

CUSTOM ROMS

Sep 21, 2014

Stock Android 4.4.4 ROM released for the Xiaomi Mi 3 and Mi 4

Xiaomi's Mi 3 might be an year old phone, but the company has managed to breathe a new life into it by releasing it in many developing markets including India at a very tempting

ANDROID PHONES

Sep 2, 2014

Xiaomi Redmi 1S sells 40,000 units in just 4.2 seconds in India

On July 15, the Redmi 1S from Xiaomi was officially unveiled. More than a month later, it was announced that, following the success of the company's Mi 3 handset, they would be releasing the

HOW TO

Aug 31, 2014

How to add, delete homescreens, widgets, create folders and more on the Xiaomi Mi 3

At first glance, the app launcher on the Xiaomi Mi 3 is pretty lacklustre compared to what other Android devices offer. Buried deep into the Settings menu though, are a plethora of options to customize

MI 3

Aug 31, 2014

MIUI v6 developer preview for the Xiaomi Mi 3 and Mi 4 released

A couple of weeks after officially unveiling MIUI v6, Xiaomi has gone ahead and released the developer preview build of its latest OS for the Chinese variant of the Mi 3 and the recently announced

XIAOMI

Aug 27, 2014

Xiaomi discontinues selling the Mi 3 in India for now

Xiaomi today announced that it will stop selling its last year flagship -- the Mi 3 -- in India to focus on the launch of the RedMi 1S -- which is scheduled to go on sale from September

HOW TO

Aug 27, 2014

How to use Permissions Manager in MIUI to deny access to permissions to apps

MIUI started off a custom ROM initially before Xiaomi started shipping it on their smartphones including the Mi 3. For an OEM firmware, MIUI packs in a plethora of customization options, which are usually found