Chinese Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Completes Its 2018 Goal of Shipping 100 Million Units of Phones

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has shipped 100 million units of phones as of October 26, completing its annual target more than two months ahead of its original plan, Xiaomi's founder and CEO Lei Jun announced on the company's Sina Weibo account. ZDNet: The smartphone brand, currently sitting behind Huawei and Oppo in China, is reporting a better sales result this year. It only shipped 70 million smartphones for the first 10 months in 2017, though it nevertheless also completed its shipment target for last year ahead of time, according to Lei's Sina Weibo post in November 2017. The 100 million shipment benchmark set in less than 10 months this year is also higher than the full-year shipment result of Xiaomi, which shipped a total of 90 million mobile handsets last year.

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[JustAnotherOldGuy]

And this is only the beginning....eventually Xiaomi will bury Apple in terms of sales.

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[viperidaenz]

Sorry mr fud, the vast majority of Xiaomi phones are sold in China and India. Only a fraction make it to USA. There are no official channels for phone sales in USA.
Their phones don't support all the LTE frequencies in USA. They all come with Chinese apps pre-loaded.

I very much doubt they have anything to do with Russia/Trump. Apple and Samsung are the biggest mobile phone vendors in USA. They're both full of proprietary software.

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[Bobrick]

Please elaborate.

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[thesupraman]

Hard solid facts tell US the US has actively intercepted most of the worlds internet usage.

'Sources' also told you about WMDs in a country you them bombed into the stoneage, from memory.

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[DNS-and-BIND]

Fun fact: you know who wrote the infamous false flag WMD memo that was used as justification to start the Iraq War? Robert S. Mueller III. Yup, the same one.

Video evidence of him lying to Congress. [youtube.com] He gave the impression that the FBI, the trusted organization that would never lie, approved of the invasion as absolutely necessary. Because Iraq was going to give WMD to Al-Qaeda, despite Saddam utterly hating Islamists and Al-Qaeda utterly hating nationalists like Saddam.

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[Type44Q]

you

Who exactly were you under the impression you were speaking to?

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[johnsie]

Google and Facebook are spyware and collect a lot more data about people than anything Xioami collects. Not to mention all the thousands of smartphone apps that track your location and useage activities. Apple say they aren't but doing this, but I'd take that claim with a pinch of salt. Even this very web page on Slashdot sends tracking data to 8 different third party web domains (if you don't have a script blocker). Welcome to cloud based computing.

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[Tough Love]

Crushing I-phone in the two fastest growing markets in the world, China and India.

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[Tough Love]

You better lay off those magic mushrooms. I-phone is MIA in India with 1% market share. Not much better in China with 8%, down from 15%. Android totally dominating.

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[Tough Love]

You sick fuck. Read this [wikipedia.org] and stew in your hate.

"Africa was the world’s fastest-growing continent at 5.6% a year, and GDP is expected to rise by an average of over 6% a year between 2013 and 2023.[3][8] In 2017, the African Development Bank reported Africa to be the world’s second-fastest growing economy, and estimates that average growth will rebound to 3.4% in 2017, while growth is expected to increase by 4.3% in 2018. Growth has been present throughout the continent, with over one-third of Sub

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[Tough Love]

What that article conveniently leaves out: taken as a whole bloc (that is, averaging all the nations), about half of sub-Saharan Africa's GDP comes from foreign aid.

Maybe because it isn't true. This paper [uwa.edu.au] says between 5% and 20% over the years, lately in the 10% range.

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[Tough Love]

I notice you didn't reply to blah blah blah

Because you are sick and disgusting. Sucks to be you.

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[Tough Love]

I-phone has 8% [counterpointresearch.com] of the Chinese smartphone market compared to Huawei 25%, Oppo 19%, Vivo 18%, Xiaomi 13%. So, yah, crushed, and too bad because China was 33% of global I-phone revenue.

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[Tough Love]

I-phone dropped from 4% of India a few years ago to 1% today. Meanwhile India's economy is booming. It's because I-phone doesn't deliver value, it's just a fashion bauble for gullible people with bad taste in fashion.

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[dk20]

whenever we have this iphone vs android debate it is inevitable someone will post apple's profits as a "sign of success". Yes, Apple owns almost all the profit in the cell phone market, but no, they do not own the number of units sold.

what does this tell you? People are willing to pay a huge premium for an iphone.

If you are proud to contibute to the "11.5 billion in net income over the last quarter' good to you. Xiaomi has a rule around limiting the markup on their products, Apple has the opposite rule,

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[hcs_$reboot]

eventually Xiaomi will bury Apple in terms of sales

Don't think so, at least not in the short/middle term. iPhones and Androids are not considered to be in the same league, and most iPhone users will then upgrade to a newer iPhone, not switch to Android. Xiaomi could eventually bury other Android phones makers, though.

They can beat Apple

[BanHammer]

Xiaomi is the number one phone seller in India.

Re: Thats a lot of spyware.

[BanHammer]

You can use custom roms on most Xiaomi phones,and doing it on the Poco F1 will not void warranty.

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[johnsie]

Who makes the custom roms? Google, and some l33t h4ck0r who puts who knows what into the roms. There's no privacy on smartphones.

Re: Thats a lot of spyware.

[BanHammer]

Agree with you completely.

Re: Thats a lot of spyware.

[Type44Q]

As you can already figure out if you're not shilling, it obviously varies depending on the ROM.

I've had success with LineageOS (I'll only run official builds) - its stability on my S5 improved greatly after transitioning from Cyanogenmod.

Malware

[Anonymous Coward]

So much malware in these things...what a waste of time/work/resources just to spy on people.

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[johnsie]

Are you talking about Google App Framework, Facebook's data collecting, thousands of data mining apps or the Icloud? Pretty much everyone is doing it these days. There is no private smartphone.

Mi MIX 2S

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been using a Mi Mix 2s now for about 4 months. Not officially released here in the US, got it imported. (No warranty) One of the best phones I've owned (and I've had my share.. it's a joke at my work about what phone am I using this month). I'm finally happy with a phone. Recommend. If you don't like the MIUI launcher, put Nova on it and it'll be more like the stock experience. The camera takes awesome pictures, the build quality is great. There's no reason to buy a Samsung or LG phone when you can hav

Re: Mi MIX 2S

[BanHammer]

Xiaomi has its own line of Android One phones for stock fans.Check out the MiA2: https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaom... [gsmarena.com]

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[jbr439]

I've had a Redmi 6 for about a month. I put Nova on it and life's good. The Redmi 6 is not a power phone by any stretch of the imagination, but it is very good bang for the buck. Got mine from B&H Photo. Next phone will likely be a Xiaomi as well.

So where can I get one?

[Anonymous Coward]

I figure I'd rather have the Chinese Security Police tap my phone than the Trump regime.

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[ShanghaiBill]

You can buy Xiaomi phones on Amazon, eBay, etc.

I have one, but I only use it as my Chinese burner phone. It is a nice phone. I have never used it in America. I use an iPhone stateside.

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[johnsie]

I thought they arrested you in that trump van on Friday. Must have been some other nut.

Using Mi A2. Like it.

[bdwoolman]

My Nexus 5X got Boot Loop of Death. Currently in Ulaanbaatar. Even the mobile phone magicians at the city's black market phone mall could do nothing for it. Grrrr. Past warranty of course. Shopped around and bought the Mi A2 for around three hundred USD. The Samsung phones with similar specs were nearly twice as much here in Mongolia (although comparable in the US.) The Mi A2 is an Android One phone which means fast updates and very little crapware. Snappy and stable. Camera is slightly inferior to the 5X b

Proof that great minds think alike...

[bdwoolman]

d:-b

Re: So where can I get one?

[BanHammer]

Have a friend who travels to India or China regularly? That is how I got mine for a great price. Beware that US networks may not be compatible with some of those phones.

100 Million Units of Phones?

[93 Escort Wagon]

Was that headline copied-and-pasted directly from Google Translate?

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[ShanghaiBill]

Was that headline copied-and-pasted directly from Google Translate?

Probably. It is a direct translation from Chinese. "100 million cell phones" in Chinese is "Yi bu shouji". The "bu" is the "measure word" for cell phones (shouji) and translates roughly as "units", and that is how Google translates it.

Linguistic trivia: English occasionally uses "measure words", like "Five head of cattle", "Three ears of corn", "Two pieces of furniture". But in Chinese they are used for almost all nouns, and it is a real pain in the butt to try to remember which measure word goes with

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[drinkypoo]

Was that headline copied-and-pasted directly from Google Translate?

No, it was copied-and-pasted directly from Xiaomi's PR department, which can surely afford to have a human check over a document after it has passed through Google Translate.

Re: I wonder which country bought most of them?

[BanHammer]

They are the number one phone seller in India for sure.

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[johnsie]

India, and they keep their profit margin down to be able to sell good quality phones at a better price.

Xiaomi == Budget Apple

[Qbertino]

I've crossed ways with Xiaomi Hardware a few times in the last 15 months or so because their also starting to make inroads in Europe. The price-performance is through the effing roof. I'm considering switching from Motorola to Xiaomi for my Smartphone and am eyeing a Xiaomi Air notebook as my next portable computer.
170 Euros for a 6.3" phone with 4/64gb of memory, an Octacore CPU and edge to edge display plus all other current niceties is pretty darn impressive. And the build quality is good and every Xiaom

Headphone jack!

[BanHammer]

They are better than apple phones as they come with an SD card slot,can be used with a custom rom and I dont have the benchmarks,but from user experience the battery life is better.

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[johnsie]

Same reason as people buy phones with American data mining software like Google Framework, Facebook, Amazon, Icloud etc. They like the apps and are willing to sacrifice their privacy for some of the features provided. If you're concerned about privacy then you should probably avoid smartphones and/or the Internet.

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[johnsie]

Iphone is as chinese an anything else.

The phones are phenomenal

[BanHammer]

As a Redmi Note 5 Pro owner,I have to say that this is well deserved and not surprising at all.The phone is excellent especially for something that costs around 200$. The Poco F1 is creating waves too,and along with Note 5 Pro's great battery,it also stays cool as a cucumber at all times. That Xiaomi phones provide bang for the buck is proven by the fact that they are the #1 seller in India And Xiaomi is going in the right direction overall as rooting the Poco F1 will not void warranty. Well deserved ov

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[johnsie]

The reason they are the best value for money is because they use good parts, but don't add a massive markup to the price. This keep the prices down and the quality up.