Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 goes official with Snapdragon 660 SoC, 16:10 screen, low-cost LTE option

Priced at the rough equivalent of $170 and up, the Snapdragon 660-powered Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 can be purchased for a measly $230 or so with LTE... in China.

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MIUI 9 is supported by an impressive total of 40 Xiaomi Android devices

MIUI 9, the newest version of Xiaomi's Android-based user interface, will be available for official installation on a whopping 40 phones and tablets... eventually.

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Xiaomi still can’t register Mi Pad trademark in Europe due to iPad similarity

The Android-powered Xiaomi Mi Pad tablet family cannot be protected by EU trademark laws, as the brand closely resembles Apple's iPad.

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Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 runs Android 5.1 or Windows 10 at $155 and up

It didn’t take a rocket scientist to guess that, because it packed an Intel Atom x5 chip, the Android-running Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 recently benchmarked in pre-release form would also offer a Windows 10 alternative on the software side of things. Especially when you consider how the Chinese manufacturer has been warming up to Microsoft of late.Earlier today, alongside the mid-range, budget-friendly

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Xiaomi schedules November 24 Beijing event: Mi 5, Mi Pad 2, Redmi Note 2 Pro incoming?

If you thought the final stages of the calendar year couldn’t possibly bring any new, half-exciting Android hardware to light, and you had to wait until CES or MWC in early 2016 to check out the mobile industry’s “next big things”, you must not know how the Chinese market works.On the Western hemisphere, it’s all about Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas. But the Chinese New Year is celebrated in February, giving Xiaomi plenty of time to showcase some sizzling hot phones and/or tablets, then actually put them up for grabs when the shopping spree begins.Still, ...

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Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 shows up in benchmark with Intel Atom x5 inside

Up-and-coming Chinese device manufacturer Xiaomi left the Mi Pad line in the lurch before it could, well, actually become a line, with the first-gen iPad mini “clone” yet to be refreshed. At long last, a Mi Pad 2 appears imminent, almost a year and a half after the original’s commercial launch, but we have to wonder whether we’re looking at a substantial upgrade.Nvidia’s sequel for the Tegra K1 chip inside the 2014 Mi Pad, dubbed Tegra X1, found it even harder to impress Android OEMs, and in fact, not counting the ...

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Xiaomi Mi Pad may be an iPad mini rip-off, but it packs some heavy hardware

NVIDIA had a rough year in 2013 when it came to its SoC business. After the Tegra 3 and Tegra 2 before it were featured on a number of high-profile phones and tablets, OEMs balked at the Tegra 4, and we saw it used in few devices outside those NVIDIA directly had a hand in making. Now the company’s got its new Tegra K1, an apparent powerhouse of a chip revealed back at CES in January. Will the K1 succeed where the Tegra 4 failed? That remains to be seen, but today we get the ball rolling as we learn about one of the first ...

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