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Went to the website, out of stock already.

The phone price is quite cheap. Anyone is using this phone and have any review on it?

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Premacist

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This model is launched today in Singapore, Haredwarezone has a review on this redmi phone.

 

 

The phone price is quite cheap. Anyone is using this phone and have any review on it?

 

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Blackyv

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Ya cos got ppl claimed to have sold the mobile at $270. hahaa

 

Buy and sell earn $100 per phone, good biz

 

and i thought only apple die hard fan are that dumb to pay more than RRP for a phone..looks like china brand is catching up.... hehe.. [grin]

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Rncw

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china just started 4G recently...so now will have 4G phones from every brand...

 

been using china dual sims phone for many years, not bad...cheap and good and good batt life (for the one i'm using lenovo A630t)....while in china, i use their prepaid 动感地带 sims and 3G also very fast and good....even my gf's apple 5 slow and now she wants to get android phone...

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my friend says that they have very good TV box that can watch a lot of overseas channels?? is it???

 

I tried it at friend's house. Yes really a lot of channels. But it streams from servers in China, can be quite laggy at times.

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Elicsson taking a leaf out of Apple's playbook...chuts IP litigation pattern liao.

 

http://www.todayonline.com/business/xiaomis-india-sales-ban-exposes-firms-patent-vulnerability

 

Xiaomi’s India sales ban exposes firm’s patent vulnerability
MUMBAI/BEIJING — The court order that banned Chinese mobile-maker Xiaomi from selling its phones in India has halted its breakneck expansion into the world’s fastest-growing major smartphone market and could be only the start of a string of patent challenges.
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DECEMBER 15

MUMBAI/BEIJING — The court order that banned Chinese mobile-maker Xiaomi from selling its phones in India has halted its breakneck expansion into the world’s fastest-growing major smartphone market and could be only the start of a string of patent challenges.

Xiaomi Technology started selling in India only in July, but quickly became the country’s fastest-growing smartphone brand. With minimal marketing, it is already outselling even low-cost smartphones running Google’s Android One.

Mr Hugo Barra, the former Google executive now leading its international operations, told Reuters last month how rapidly the country had taken to his brand. All it took was a single Facebook post to draw dozens of superfans to a California Pizza Kitchen in Mumbai to meet him, he said.

“It was far more than we expected. The community has really, really embraced us,” he added.

And then came Wednesday’s court order to stop selling, after a patent infringement case was filed by telecom equipment maker Ericsson. The ban will last until at least Feb 5, when the Delhi court hears the case again.

But that is unlikely to be the end of the young company’s battle over intellectual property (IP) rights.

Sources close to Xiaomi say its leadership has privately acknowledged for years its vulnerability to patent entanglements. The higher risks of IP litigation in Western markets even played a role in shaping its strategy of expanding in India and South-east Asia, the sources said.

Xiaomi said in a statement that “it isn’t easy” to build up a patent portfolio as a start-up company, but it aims to have filed 8,000 applications by 2016.

On its home turf, it has already been dogged by IP controversies with other Chinese firms, mostly over content rights for its streaming TV service.

However, as its smartphone business, which is already No 1 in China, continues to grow, industry analysts expect greater pressure at home, particularly since two of its fiercest handset rivals, Huawei and ZTE Corp, are among the top telecom patent holders.

Until the ban in India is lifted, it will be particularly hard on growth prospects. In a country where only one in 10 people use smartphones, the potential is vast. The market grew 82 per cent in the third quarter, while China expanded at a relatively modest 10.8 per cent, said research firm IDC.

Mr Barra posted a message on the company’s website on Friday apologising to fans. “Rest assured that we’re doing all we can to revert the situation,” he wrote. “Stay tuned for more information.”

In China, Xiaomi already outsells Apple and Samsung Electronics in smartphones and it became the world’s third-largest vendor as of October. Unlike Apple, which introduces a new iPhone once a year, Xiaomi rolls out updated models frequently, usually in small batches that sell out in seconds. It sells only online and with minimal advertising, relying on word-of-mouth to build anticipation for new launches.

In India, Xiaomi initially imported 10,000 devices a week, but soon had to ramp that up to 60,000 to 100,000 to meet demand, India business chief Manu Jain told Reuters before the sales ban. It has chartered flights four times to rush in fresh supplies. Bloomberg

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