Xiaomi takes the smartphone sales crown
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Xiaomi takes the smartphone sales crown
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Re: Xiaomi takes the smartphone sales crown
#2WAY cheaper and still do everything you want a modern mobile phone to do.
This could have been a race between Xiaomi and Huawai but trump decided against that.
Re: Xiaomi takes the smartphone sales crown
#3WAY cheaper and still do everything you want a modern mobile phone to do. This could have been a race between Xiaomi and Huawai but trump decided against that.
Huawei phones have always had a high price point. Huawei and Xiaomi have never competed.
Re: Xiaomi takes the smartphone sales crown
#4WAY cheaper and still do everything you want a modern mobile phone to do. This could have been a race between Xiaomi and Huawai but trump decided against that.
Huawei phones have always had a high price point. Huawei and Xiaomi have never competed.
Compared to Samsung, Sony, iPhone or recently Oppo their flag ship phones always appeared at a reasonable price point. Also their light/$2-300 phones series usually wasn't a complete joke like with many other major names.
Re: Xiaomi takes the smartphone sales crown
#5Good, cheap phones, but packed to the brim with spyware.
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#6Good, cheap phones, but packed to the brim with spyware.
Not if you buy the ones with Android One
Re: Xiaomi takes the smartphone sales crown
#7WAY cheaper and still do everything you want a modern mobile phone to do. This could have been a race between Xiaomi and Huawai but trump decided against that.
Huawei phones have always had a high price point. Huawei and Xiaomi have never competed.
In the China brand lifecycle, Xiaomi was just at a different phase of the cycle than Huawei. Now they also have €1000+ phones to compete with Samsung and Apple flagships. Similar story happened with OnePlus.
Re: Xiaomi takes the smartphone sales crown
#8WAY cheaper and still do everything you want a modern mobile phone to do. This could have been a race between Xiaomi and Huawai but trump decided against that.
Didnt Huawei locked their bootloader when they started to get big?
I wonder if xiaomi will do that as well.
Re: Xiaomi takes the smartphone sales crown
#9WAY cheaper and still do everything you want a modern mobile phone to do. This could have been a race between Xiaomi and Huawai but trump decided against that.
Didnt Huawei locked their bootloader when they started to get big? I wonder if xiaomi will do that as well.
I still don't understand why they thought that's a good idea. Or why any of them thinks it is.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didnt Huawei locked their bootloader when they started to get big? I wonder if xiaomi will do that as well.
I still don't understand why they thought that's a good idea. Or why any of them thinks it is.
I think locking the bootloader can prevent rogue shops installing malware (I heard this was an issue in china). But if that is the reason, manufacturer could give devs and consumers method to unlock.
I did wonder then if locking bootloader could be at request of govt (cue Huawei paranoia).
Perhaps it is a feature not used often enough to justify costs of warranty service/complaints to manufacturer (kids bricking their phone).