Xiaomi unveils its new flagship smartphone, the Mi 4, with a metal frame

[terranMarine]

@cirr check this out
Insight @Canalys

 

[eazzy]

Xiaomi first in China.

Apple first in Japan.

 

[terranMarine]

Xiaomi first in China.

Apple first in Japan.

If that graph is correct Xiaomi is rocking the boat

 

[BoQ77]

Your phone must be sturdy, and safety ...
cause it not a game console, it's your wallet, your own album ... means keep most of your important and private information.
Think again

 

[cirr]

@cirr check this out
Insight @Canalys

Xiaomi rules。

It is only the beginning of a trend。

PS。 We know what “others” are actually made of。

 

[cirr]

Xiaomi: China’s New #1 Smartphone Vendor

By Paul Ausick August 4, 2014 9:45 am EDT

The long-time leader in smartphone sales in China has been Korea’s Samsung Electronics. But a new sheriff rode into town in the second quarter. China’s Xiaomi sold nearly 15 million phones in its home country during the second quarter, compared with about 13.2 million for Samsung.

Xiaomi’s sales in China passed Apple Inc. (NYSE: AAPL) in the second quarter of 2013, when the Chinese upstart grabbed 5% of the country’s market, compared with 4.8% for Apple. At that time, Xiaomi had the sixth largest market share in China.

While high-end phones sell well among some consumers, an iPhone 5s at an unsubsidized price of more than $800 doesn’t have a chance to beat volume sales of a phone that sells for the equivalent of around $100 or less unsubsidized. China Mobile Ltd. (NYSE: CHL) has begun rolling out its 4G network, and the world’s largest mobile carrier has chosen to partner with domestic handset makers that sell smartphones that are affordable to more people.

Trailing Samsung to round out the second-quarter’s top five selling smartphone makers are Lenovo (around 13 million units), Yulong (12.7 million) and Huawei (11.9 million). Xiaomi’s Chinese market share totaled 14% in the second quarter, compared with 12% for Samsung, Lenovo and Yulong, and 11% for Huawei. Other vendors, of which there are dozens, including Apple, accounted for 39% of the market. In the first quarter of 2012, Samsung’s market share in China was 22%, according to research firm Canalys.

Xiaomi has already captured 5.1% of the global market, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, up from 1.8% a year ago, and now ranks fifth in global sales before it even rolls out products widely outside of China. Xiaomi could pass Lenovo, which claimed a second-quarter global market share of 5.4%, this quarter and Huawei (6.8% global share in the second quarter) by this time next year, making it the world’s third largest smartphone company behind only Apple and Samsung. Not bad for a company that is only four years old.

 

[Jlaw]

Yes, meizu is quite early, but Xiaomi's success probably is due to it's marketing strategy and proper company governance. Their product is very similar.


This article says Meizu will come back.
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[Edison Chen]

Isn't Meizu started by an American but he just uses a "Chinese" sounding name.

really? never hear anything about Meizu's history, it was suddenly very popular in the past few years.

It reminds me that there are some Chinese electronic products with a foreign name mainly focused on foreign market.

 

[Jlaw]

really? never hear anything about Meizu's history, it was suddenly very popular in the past few years.

It reminds me that there are some Chinese electronic products with a foreign name mainly focused on foreign market.

My bad. It's not. But I think there's another company that has similar name but they don't sell mobile phones but cheap electronics started by an American .

Meizu as a smartphone maker isn't so well-known to the world outside mainland China as Huawei, ZTE and, more recently, Xiaomi. However, Huang Zhang — aka J.W. (Jhon Wong), founder of Meizu is a legendary figure in China's consumer electronics market.
Chinese Smartphone Maker Meizu to Raise Funding and ...
technode.com/2014/02/10/meizu-changes-2014/

 

[cirr]

Top 10 'hit' smartphones in China

Updated: 2014-08-05 07:32 (chinadaily.com.cn)

Smartphones have entered uncharted territory this year with many upgrades and innovations.

Telephones have developed quickly, but it seems the rapid advances cause consumers some difficulties for there are so many to choose from.

The rank of popularity is according to search rates of smartphones' names on the Baidu search engine so let's look at the 10 hottest smartphones in China according to cnmo.com based on the Baidu index.

No. 1 Xiaomi 4
No. 2 iPhone 6
No. 3 OnePlus One
No. 4 Xiaomi 3
No. 5 Galaxy S5
No. 6 Huawei Honor 6
No. 7 iPhone 5S
No. 8 Redmi Note
No. 9 Meizu MX4
No. 10 Smartisan T1

Details：Top 10 'hit' smartphones in China[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

 

[Inoyasha2]

Xiaomi Claims Of Fast Selling Smartphones Now Under FTC Investigation
By Edwin Kee on 07/31/2014

When it comes to selling a product, there is no better way than to blow your own trumpet – that is, the speed at which a particular device would actually sell. It seems that the folks over at Xiaomi might be in a spot at the moment, having blown their own trumpet about selling out their supply of Xiaomi Mi3 smartphones in a matter of just 40 minutes in India. How about having sold 10,000 of Xiaomi Redmi Notes in just one second? The Taiwan Fair Trade Commission (FTC) will open an investigation into such claims after receiving complaints.

Touted to be “hunger marketing” campaigns, the Taiwan FTC is rather concerned that such campaigns might be a process to hype up a particular handset in order to make said device look more valuable than it actually is, or harder to find at least. Should the FTC’s investigations point out that Xiaomi’s claims to the number of devices sold within the claimed amount of time are untrue, then the manufacturer could be slapped with a fine of up to $20,000.

This would not so much hurt Xiaomi’s financial situation in the short term, but if its credibility were to be hit, it might take some time to recover and gain the trust of the masses in the future.

Xiaomi Claims Of Fast Selling Smartphones Now Under FTC Investigation

FTC fines Xiaomi Taiwan for sales data

The Taiwanese branch of Chinese handset maker Xiaomi Corp (小米) apologized yesterday after being fined NT$600,000 (US$19,980) by the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) for rounding up sales figures of its low-cost Redmi smartphones.

“We sincerely apologize for causing public inconvenience and misunderstanding,” Xiaomi Taiwan said on its Facebook page, referring to the slight discrepancy between actual sales and the numbers it announced.

The company said it has revised its purchasing rules based on Taiwanese regulations in a bid to improve service quality and offer a better shopping experience to consumers.

Earlier in the day, the commission ruled that Xiaomi Taiwan had violated the Fair Trade Act (公平交易法) by misrepresenting data in which claimed it had sold 10,000 Redmi phones in Taiwan within nine minutes, 50 seconds of them going on sale on Dec. 9 last year.

They also said they had sold 10,000 units in 68 seconds on Dec. 16 and said another 8,000 within 25 seconds on Dec. 23.

The numbers are slight exaggerations from the actual sales, which the FTC found came out to 9,339 phones, 9,492 phones and 7,389 phones in the three sales respectively.

The FTC said Xiaomi Taiwan’s decision to close online sales with some Redmi phones still in its inventory also curtailed consumers’ ability to purchase them.

This story has been viewed 1055 times.

FTC fines Xiaomi Taiwan for sales data - Taipei Times

 

[cirr]

Xiaomi Claims Of Fast Selling Smartphones Now Under FTC Investigation
By Edwin Kee on 07/31/2014

When it comes to selling a product, there is no better way than to blow your own trumpet – that is, the speed at which a particular device would actually sell. It seems that the folks over at Xiaomi might be in a spot at the moment, having blown their own trumpet about selling out their supply of Xiaomi Mi3 smartphones in a matter of just 40 minutes in India. How about having sold 10,000 of Xiaomi Redmi Notes in just one second? The Taiwan Fair Trade Commission (FTC) will open an investigation into such claims after receiving complaints.

Touted to be “hunger marketing” campaigns, the Taiwan FTC is rather concerned that such campaigns might be a process to hype up a particular handset in order to make said device look more valuable than it actually is, or harder to find at least. Should the FTC’s investigations point out that Xiaomi’s claims to the number of devices sold within the claimed amount of time are untrue, then the manufacturer could be slapped with a fine of up to $20,000.

This would not so much hurt Xiaomi’s financial situation in the short term, but if its credibility were to be hit, it might take some time to recover and gain the trust of the masses in the future.

Xiaomi Claims Of Fast Selling Smartphones Now Under FTC Investigation

FTC fines Xiaomi Taiwan for sales data

The Taiwanese branch of Chinese handset maker Xiaomi Corp (小米) apologized yesterday after being fined NT$600,000 (US$19,980) by the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) for rounding up sales figures of its low-cost Redmi smartphones.

“We sincerely apologize for causing public inconvenience and misunderstanding,” Xiaomi Taiwan said on its Facebook page, referring to the slight discrepancy between actual sales and the numbers it announced.

The company said it has revised its purchasing rules based on Taiwanese regulations in a bid to improve service quality and offer a better shopping experience to consumers.

Earlier in the day, the commission ruled that Xiaomi Taiwan had violated the Fair Trade Act (公平交易法) by misrepresenting data in which claimed it had sold 10,000 Redmi phones in Taiwan within nine minutes, 50 seconds of them going on sale on Dec. 9 last year.

They also said they had sold 10,000 units in 68 seconds on Dec. 16 and said another 8,000 within 25 seconds on Dec. 23.

The numbers are slight exaggerations from the actual sales, which the FTC found came out to 9,339 phones, 9,492 phones and 7,389 phones in the three sales respectively.

The FTC said Xiaomi Taiwan’s decision to close online sales with some Redmi phones still in its inventory also curtailed consumers’ ability to purchase them.

This story has been viewed 1055 times.

FTC fines Xiaomi Taiwan for sales data - Taipei Times

Xiaomi should have hired people from the Mainland to man its Taiwan office，rather than using local staff as stipulated and required by the law。

Taiwan should relax the relevant regulations to accomodate employment of Mainlanders in all sectors that are open to Taiwanese on this side of the Strait。

 

[rcrmj]

i dont know why people are so drunk on Xiaomi````its a cheap phone end the day, it wasnt even around in 2011, and it succeeded to some extended because of their innovative marketing skills thats it, it does not have the advantage on hardware and software stuff```` Huawei makes its own core and Lenovo are expertise in hardware making```

 

[xunzi]

i dont know why people are so drunk on Xiaomi````its a cheap phone end the day, it wasnt even around in 2011, and it succeeded to some extended because of their innovative marketing skills thats it, it does not have the advantage on hardware and software stuff```` Huawei makes its own core and Lenovo are expertise in hardware making```

I used to think the same until you realize how amazing Xiaomi User Interface is. It's very "Apple-like" which mean stylist and simplistic, quality that modern young people really love, women, kids, and even elder men.

 

[rott]

@WebMaster, I can't seem to post links. It keeps saying, "You've reached your limit of two links per post", even though I'm not trying to post more than one link.