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Chinese Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Says It is Working To Enter the US Market Next Year (reuters.com) 54

Posted by msmash from the up-next dept.
China's Xiaomi is pressing ahead with plans to enter the United States next year, saying its U.S. connections should help the consumer-focused smartphone maker skirt the political resistance met by some of its compatriot rivals. From a report: Senior Vice President Wang Xiang told Reuters on Tuesday that the U.S. market was "very attractive" and that the firm was adding engineering resources to develop versions of its handsets that are compatible with U.S. cellphone networks. "Next year we hope we can do something there," Wang said, adding talks with U.S. carriers are yet to produce concrete agreements.
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Chinese Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Says It is Working To Enter the US Market Next Year

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  • Xiaomi is a good brand with nice phones however I personally like Oppo more.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by delt0r ( 999393 )
      I just got one. For 5x less than a equivalent i whatever, with a longer battery life and every feature of the expensive phone. In fact i don't understand why people pay 5x more for .. well nothing extra. Oh and i can flash it to stock android as well.

  • Bribes (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Don't forget to bribe Trump, or you will never get into the US market.

  • gotta get those backdoors out there somehow!

    • Don't think Melania's even letting him in the front door.

    • Well that's a given. But would you rather have Chinese backdoors, or NSA/CIA backdoors? If someone is going to backdoor my device, I'd rather it be the Chinese, as I care quite a bit less about what they'll do with my data. Obviously if 'no backdoors' was an option that would be even better; but come on, it's 2018. As we celebrate our nations birth today in America, most of our government continues, on both sides, to wipe their ass with our Constitution as they shit all over the principles this nation was f

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by guygo ( 894298 )
        Ever hear of The Red Guard? The Cultural Revolution maybe? People subjected to years of torture and hard labor for being a teacher? The forced relocation of millions of citizens, killing many and destroying families in perpetuity? But yeah, those incompetent money-changers in Washington are worse, so much worse. All hail President-for-Life Xi.
        • Ah yes, the 'everyone who isn't as bad as x is good' argument. Like we should accept our government abusing our rights because they're not as bad as those other governments. The mass incarceration of nonviolent offenders, mass surveillance of the population, rampant civil rights abuses by police... it's all good because we don't have death camps. Wonderful.

          • Re: (Score:1)

            by guygo ( 894298 )
            Never said we should accept; putting words in others mouth is always SUCH a good way to present your argument. But until I see DC lining people up for re-education/relocation I am using orders of magnitude to differentiate between the two. If you wish to see the world in an Aristotlean value system that is your choice. Others see spectra.
            • If not to suggest we shouldn't be complaining, then what's the point of bringing up the distinction? That's the general implication of that kind of argument, "Well, we've got it good compared to others, so be happy with what we have." You say you're not making that argument, but haven't offered an alternative explanation. Incarcerating millions for sentences wildly disproportionate to the crime on a failed moral crusade, police routinely beating and sometimes killing people who don't pose a threat along wit

        • Re: (Score:1)

          by Anonymous Coward
          But did they come to the US or even Europe to abduct people for relocation, killing, and torture?
          That's the question you've got to ask yourself as a Westerner. What can they do to YOU in particular if they have your data. And now compare that to what the NSA/CIA could do to you if they have access to your data? Of course if you were Chinese and living in China it would be the other way around.

        • Would, say, the government of Iceland have been able to do that *in New Zealand*? No, but it could do it in Iceland.

          You're totally missing the point.

      • Well that's a given. But would you rather have Chinese backdoors, or NSA/CIA backdoors? If someone is going to backdoor my device, I'd rather it be the Chinese, as I care quite a bit less about what they'll do with my data.

        What causes you to imagine that they won't sell your data to your own government?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AHuxley ( 892839 )
      Just like the NSA and GCHQ?

  • Senior Vice President Wang Xiang

    For some reason, I'm thinking about Ted Nugent.

  • Seriously, they are no different than huawei. Nix them.

  • I have one. (Score:3)

    by grep -v '.*' * ( 780312 ) on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @05:33PM (#56893710)
    I've got a Xiaomi Max 2 from Banggood.com, I think. 5.3A battery, large screen, battery lasts SOT for a day (that's 24 hours SOT) and not on minimal brightness. Charges up in 3 hours or less. There's a few add-ons, I've activated all of them. I would have added in APKs if they were missing.

    The ONLY thing it doesn't do is run on the Verizon network -- wrong frequencies. It works fine on WiFi and VoiP, and I have a small Verizon hotspot that fits in my pocket as well. (That's slightly annoying, but the phone makes up for it.)

    Samsung should be worried. Apple might be worried, but their users are addicts anyway, so probably not.

    • what is SOT? I even tried to look it up [thefreedictionary.com]. Yep I think I fail. Or someone did.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AHuxley ( 892839 )
      Yes the days of 50% to 100% US and South Korean brand price profit is over.
      China will do near at cost to build their own new brand names.

    • I went from the Samsung S4 to the Xiaomi Mi4. What a breath of fresh air, at a third the price of a Samsung flagship, top hardware, good and updated software stac etc. So went on to the Mi5, and, since I travel to the US now and then, I switched to the Mi Mix 2 last year when it came out, as it supports all the T-Mobile US LTE bands among others. That was a bit more expensive (about $500) than the regular flagship series, but it is the first Android phone I've had that got me excited (so far it has been - n

  • Business Model? (Score:3)

    by Frosty Piss ( 770223 ) * on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @06:58PM (#56893992)

    I wonder if there would be a market for a US company that was "beyond reproach" whose business was to certify foreign tech as being "safe"?

    • I wonder if there would be a market for a US company that was "beyond reproach" whose business was to certify foreign tech as being "safe"?

      In short, no. Nobody is dumb enough to believe such a thing could exist.

  • I've installed LineageOS on one. (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    You go to their web site and download an app that downloads an alternative open boot loader and deploys it to your phone. You need to register an account with them and fill up a 3 fields form asking for the whos and whys (name, phone number and an open text box asking you why you want to unlock you phone).

    I wrote "I want to install LineageOS on my phone" and they approved my request in less then a day.

    My understanding about this procedure is that they want to make sure only the person who owns the phone can

  • They're opening stores all over Europe and where I live (Spain) it's not very common to see stores for a single brand. Of the top of my head only Apple does it. Samsung has sections inside malls/phone stores but AFAIK no exclusive stores.
    It certainly seems they're doing very well though I wonder if they have any help or ties with the Chinese government

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