7-inch Xiaomi Mi Max 3 could follow the ‘full screen’ trend, also packing a huge battery

Following in the footsteps of the ultra-high-end Mi MIX 2, the upper mid-range Xiaomi Mi Max 3 is expected to sport razor-thin bezels surrounding a massive 7-inch screen.

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Xiaomi Mi Max Prime quietly launched in India at $300 with Snapdragon 652, 4GB RAM

Too big? Too heavy? Not powerful enough? Apparently, the gargantuan but affordable Xiaomi Mi Max caught on despite all the objections one could have justly raised before settling on it in an option-rich budget Android smartphone market.Available in China in a number of configurations for quite some time, including a “lighter” 2GB RAM variant, the 6.44-incher can now be purchased on Indian shores with your choice of 3 or 4GB RAM, ...

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Real-life Meizu M3 Max photos preview some tough Xiaomi Mi Max competition

Today’s crowded global smartphone landscape continues to see many great rivalries unfold, the most captivating of which opposes Apple and Samsung. But a host of smaller OEMs, the vast majority based in China, are having their own interesting battles for fame, often prompting them to copy one another so as not to risk getting left behind.Case in point, Xiaomi recently went big (literally) with the relatively affordable 6.44-inch Mi Max, while Meizu apparently intends to follow suit exactly one week ...

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Xiaomi’s crazy deals in India this week include phones and accessories for one rupee

Xiaomi is huge in China, and also pretty big in Japan India already, despite only entering the latter market about two years ago. Check that, exactly two years ago this week, which is why the budget-conscious smartphone manufacturer is kicking off a 3-day carnival on Wednesday, July 20.To celebrate the company’s local 2nd year milestone, and thank Mi Fans for “being there for us”, half a dozen devices ...

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Lighter Xiaomi Mi Max with 2GB RAM confirmed

When you’re talking about a value proposition, — even just on a hardware aspect — Xiaomi is probably one of the leaner, meaner players out there giving up the goods. Its Mi Max phones have put up good mechanics for a hard bargain.And then we saw a Mi Max with 2GB of RAM on TENAA. And we had to wonder how much it would have to go for to be any good.

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Geekbench shows that Xiaomi “markw” is a mid-ranger

It wasn’t long ago that we saw the Xiaomi Mi Max bring another edge to its mid-range offerings. Low cost, high impact. What could be better?Well, we don’t know what this “markw” device could be, but the person that tested it on Geekbench purports for it to be a Xiaomi make. It seems to have 3GB of RAM and a

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Lighter Xiaomi Mi Max variant picked up on a benchmark

The Xiaomi Mi Max, as affordable and (ergo) popular as it is, could be just a little more affordable. Not sure how popular it’ll be, though.On what looks like a recent AnTuTu benchmark log, we find what could be a Mi Max with MIUI 7.3 on Android 6.0.1, a hexa-core processor running at 1.8GHz tops — looks to be a Snapdragon 650 — backed up by 2GB of RAM and 16GB of ...

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Xiaomi Mi Max pre-orders: 10 million and counting

A phone called the Xiaomi Mi Max officially launched last week and the starting gate has since been rendered invisible. The company has been giving away a few lots of the phone to some lucky Weibo users, but the real roadshow is still set for May 17 — and that’s only to sell 100,000 units of the lower-speccd version with a Snapdragon 650, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage.Kinda sad to see that the masses will have to keep waiting. And by masses, we mean 10 million ...

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Xiaomi quietly unveils iHealth Box, again flaunts delayed Mi Band 2

While unsurprisingly choosing to put the spotlight on the remarkably affordable Mi Max upper mid-range phablet first and foremost at a Beijing press event earlier today, Xiaomi also took the wraps off its latest Android Marshmallow-based MIUI 8 OS, the iHealth Box, and Mi Band 2 fitness tracker.Well, technically, the Mi Band 2 wasn’t properly announced and fully detailed during said keynote address, as an unexpectedly complicated manufacturing process

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