Xiaomi has already released a few new phones running Android Nougat, also updating a couple of old ones, and planning many other UI makeovers.
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The Snapdragon 835-powered Xiaomi Mi 6 was expected out in January, then February, then March, then today, ultimately breaking cover next week in Beijing.
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The Android 7.1-loaded $220 Xiaomi Mi 5c is the first smartphone powered by the company's first homebrewed SoC, the Surge S1.
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Xiaomi's mid to high-end smartphone portfolio will reportedly be expanded in 2017, starting with a Mi 5c next month powered by an in-house Pinecone SoC.
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After making its all-time CES debut earlier this month, Xiaomi will surprisingly play hooky at the 2017 Mobile World Congress in late February.
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Possibly ranging in retail pricing from $290 to roughly $435, the fast-approaching Xiaomi Mi 6 trio should cover all of the company's high-end bases.
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Xiaomi has been keeping busy lately, unveiling in the space of just a few weeks more high-end smartphone models than some rival OEMs do over an entire year. Granted, the Mi 5s and Mi 5s Plus are very much alike, and the Mi MIX isn’t exactly what you’d call a mainstream consumer-oriented product with mass appeal.
Still, all three aforementioned hero devices, as well as the Mi Note 2, have been released in larger or smaller quantities this fall, and yet Xiaomi is further rumored to be cooking up a flat-screened Mi Note 2 variant, “diminutive” 5.5-inch Mi MIX Nano, and legitimately tiny Mi S.
Wait, just Xiaomi Mi S? That’s beyond confusing. But maybe today’s “leaked” 4.6-inch Snapdragon 821 powerhouse will go official under a different, easier to remember and isolate name. Like, say, Mi 5s Mini or Nano.
Unfortunately, we can’t be certain of the disclosed information’s authenticity, especially as the compact flagship’s spec sheet sounds a little too good to be true. A little too much like the wet dream of a nostalgic pint-sized mobile phone enthusiast.
You have your miniature, pixel-packed Full HD display, top-of-the-line Qualcomm processor, 4GB RAM, 128GB internal storage, plus the same 12MP Sony IMX378 rear-facing camera and 4MP selfie shooter as the “full-sized” Mi 5s. A modest 2600mAh battery and somewhat chunky 8.2mm profile, meanwhile, are either clear indicators of a refreshing reality check or shrewd attempts to make an obvious hoax seem semi-plausible.
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Did anyone suggest Xiaomi could follow LeEco’s suit, starting to run out of cash just as it finally looked to expand into the US smartphone market? Not that we’re aware of, but International VP and former Google product manager Hugo Barra wants to preclude such ominous speculation by highlighting the company’s recent mobile sales declines won’t impact its key “revenue streams.”
Barra in fact claims Xiaomi doesn’t really make money off affordable handsets like the Redmi 4, Mi Note 2 or Mi 5s, let alone the “conceptual” Mi MIX, and even if it sold 10 billion of all those, it “wouldn’t make a single dime in profits.”
Valued at no more than $46 billion upon receiving $1.1B funding at the end of 2014, the Chinese designer and developer of laptops, wearables and various smart home products feels “no pressing need to do an IPO or even a private round.”
That’s precisely due to the success of lucrative devices like air and water purifiers, intelligent rice cookers, scales or vacuums, as well as “recurring” software revenue.
Interestingly enough, a rumor completely unrelated to Hugo Barra’s statements calls for the imminent launch of a low-cost Xiaomi Mi 5c phone with, surprise, surprise, a “home-cooked” processor codenamed Pinecone.
While an aggressive in-house mobile SoC push similar to, say, Samsung’s Exynos program is highly unlikely, it would still be surprising to see Xiaomi commercialize its own system-on-a-chip domestically before bringing a phone stateside.
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While calling Xiaomi’s recently unveiled Mi 5s and Mi 5s Plus disappointing would be a bit of an exaggeration, the two Android high-enders are certainly confusing.Just one version of the smaller model sports a 3D Touch display, the Mi 5s also carries an “under-glass” fingerprint scanner in both 3 and 4GB RAM configurations, whereas the Plus can go all the way up to 6 gigs of memory, doubling down on rear cam lenses as well.But if you wait
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If Xiaomi indeed plans to finally branch out into the hugely lucrative US smartphone business before long, it may as well bring something unique and revolutionary to the hyper-demanding (especially with foreigners) American audience.The looming Mi Note 2 (and its super-high-end Pro derivation) fits the bill perfectly going on rumors, although we can’t help feel an “edgy” screen with virtually no borders is a little too much to ask from the “Apple of China.”Considering how ...
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The Yotaphone was a novel innovation in the smartphone field. It had two screens with the latter one being a power-efficient E Ink display fit for reading to your heart’s content and a conventional display up front for all your other needs. The Yotaphone isn’t extinct, but one has been hard to come by in the US, thanks to the Russian government’s unwielding influence. No, we’re not just talking about
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There’s been a lot of chatter lately about every imaginable ultra-high-end feature possibly gracing Xiaomi’s not-so-iterative Mi 5 upgrade, and except for a big one, the Mi 5s and Mi 5s Plus indeed incorporate them all, albeit not at once.Sorry, dual-edged smartphone fans, you’ll have to make do with a ...
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We’re only four days away from Xiaomi’s increasingly thrilling next-gen flagship phone announcement, and thanks to mixed official signals, as well as the typically jumbled gossip on Weibo, nothing’s certain until it’s certain.What we’re pretty sure of is an affordable Xiaomi Mi 5s powerhouse will break cover on Tuesday, despite recent speculation of a last-minute name change to Mi Note S, with
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AnTuTu is widely recognized as one of the most fickle, least trustworthy mobile device performance testing tools, and yet, everyone keeps paying attention to its reports, especially prior to and shortly after various flagship model releases.Even OEMs will sometimes flaunt unusually high benchmarking scores as ultimate evidence of their products’ imposing raw speed, as seems to be the case for the Xiaomi Mi 5s. This bad boy has practically been confirmed for a September 27 announcement a couple of days ...
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Unless Xiaomi has to deal with a Galaxy Note 7-level recall this holiday season, which remains unlikely, you have to figure the fast-rising Chinese OEM will unveil at least one more flagship Android phone by the end of the year.The question is are we looking at a long overdue
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