Xiaomi today announced the 799 RMB ($125) Redmi Note 2, and the 999 RMB ($155) Redmi Note 2 Prime. The Redmi Note 2 is powered by the MediaTek Helio X10 chipset, the same octa-core silicon inside HTC’s flagship M9+, which costs almost four times as much as the Redmi Note 2. Like the Oneplus One, the Redmi Note 2 has a 5.5in screen, and 1080p ...

Last September Google announced the Android One, Google’s attempt to get smartphones in the hands of “the next billion users.” Their tactic is to get a simple, solid Android Lollipop device into the hands of users in developing countries for a fraction of the price as their first world sellers. But it appears Google’s first attempt has been priced too ...

Today Xiaomi announced the launch of the Redmi 2 Prime in India. What’s it all about? Processing The Redmi 2 Prime is going to ship with a 64-bit Snapdragon 410 quad-core 1.2-GHz with 50% more processing power than its predecessor. The new Cortex-A53 processor on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 410 should have enough power to make the user experience more fluid. It will ...

Xiaomi announced Monday that it has started assembling handsets in India, in a move to trim costs and give it a leg up in the South Asian market as they press ahead with global expansion plans. Xiaomi is using the existing assembly facilities of Foxconn in India, which also manufactures Xiaomi phones in China. on Saturday Foxconn announced it is planning to spend $5 billion on factories and ...

Xiaomi is trying to ramp up offline sales in India 20-30 percent in India to come from brick-and-mortar stores in the next few years. The Chinese company also announced today that it has partnered with Redington to make its smartphones available across physical retail stores. “We have partnered Redington. We will begin with select cities like Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore and later ...

Xiaomi’s Mi series phones are being brazenly copied in Thailand, Shanghai’s China Business News. A Thai company has launched a range of iMI phones (which we will refer to as the ThaiMi from now on, because we’re pretty sure they should have used that name in the first place), priced from 3,990 baht (US$113) to 8,990 baht (US$256). The ThaiMi is similarly ...