Tag Archives: Xiaomi

Xiaomi’s Mi Box Android TV streamer is a popular option for people who want to watch Netflix, Youtube etc but don’t have a Smart TV with these apps built-in. A few days ago Xiaomi released an Android System update for their Mi Box 3 International MDZ-16-AB model which included several …

Xiaomi have taken to their social media pages on both Facebook and Twitter to announced that their 4K Android TV set-top box will be coming to the USA shoreline very “soon”, although no official date of when this will actually occur has been provided. The Mi 4K Android TV set-top …

Xiaomi have been in the media a bit lately with the launch of their Mi 4i smartphone, a really snappy looking and (on paper at least) performing device. At the launch of the Mi 4i Hugo Barra also announced that the Mi Band was going to become available in India, …

At an event in India, hosted by ex-Googler Hugo Barra Xiaomi has tonight launched their first ‘Global’ phone the Xiaomi Mi 4i. The stream was unreliable at best, with multiple dropouts, but they’ve taken the wraps of a phone which is well priced and pretty powerful spec wise. The presentation …

Xiaomi are a quiet achiever and tomorrow at 6:30 GMT +8 (8:30 pm AEST) they’ll be live streaming the launch of their new device, expected to be the Mi Smartphone. Being so close to the event that CEO Bin Lin and VP of Xiaomi Global Hugo Barra are both attending …

One of the quiet achievers in the Android space over the last couple of years is undoubtedly Xiaomi. They’ve gone from a nobody mixing among the other cheap manufacturers but with the addition of former Google VP Hugo Barra in 2013 they began to make a name for themselves. Not …

OzBargain is pointing to another great deal today – the Xiaomi Mi Band fitness tracker, delivered for just under AU$20. The once little-known Chinese manufacturer’s profile increased greatly in 2013 when they picked up Hugo Barra from Google, and since then their market share, profile and product quality has seen …

Nine months ago Xiaomi released the Mi3 and over 10 million sales of it later they have announced the successor, the Mi4. While yet to make a significant mark outside of China, Xiaomi signalled their intentions earlier this year when they expanded to Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and India, selling devices …

That header image is the one all you long-suffering Pressy Kickstarter backers have been waiting for. The picture was sent out late last night as update 20 from ‘The Pressy Bunch’ announcing that manufacturing of the removeable physical button for Android devices was complete and will now be shipping out …

How would you like to add a physical button to your Android device, which works with an app that you can program to perform different functions? If you have a 3.5mm headphone jack, then you can, with Klick. Klick has just become available to order through Chinese online retailer Deal …

The departure of Hugo Barra from Google sparked a huge amount of rumour and speculation as to the exact reasoning for him leaving, the end result is that Xiaomi have acquired a technically brilliant businessman who know’s how to market a device and his name alone being associated with the …

Since the days of the T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream) Cyanogenmod has been ported to nearly every Android phone released, and over the last couple of years they’ve grown even larger, with Cyanogen Mod now available on over 150 devices in its various forms. But as an un-official community developed ROM …

Google’s Android division has lost another key member today, with Android Vice President of Product Management for Android, Hugo Barra, said to be leaving the company to join Chinese phone manufacturer Xiaomi. The reasoning behind Barra’s sudden move is unclear, however, All Things D is speculating that a ‘personal situation …

Once again Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi is throwing down the gauntlet to the major manufacturers – this time with the Mi-3, the follow on from it’s successful and also well spec’d Mi-2. The Mi-3 is not yet official — we understand that Xiaomi is waiting for Google’s I/O event which should …

Announced back in August the Xiaomi MI-2 was one of the first phones to run the Quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU and Mobicity has just announced that they have it on-sale for $449 in white + $19 delivery with stock shipping in 5-7 days. Quad-Core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU(APQ8064) …