Xiaomi: "We'll walk past both Samsung and Apple when it comes to smartphones" - Polidicks

To walk right past Apple and Samsung here would kinda be a little bit of a stretch. This country is littered with smartphones all over the place. Though of course if they do make it to the top i would be amazed. To me i see it like this. Apple here is popular because of How Elegant they make their products look with heavy ammounts of marketing to boot. And for Samsung it all comes down to a bit more on the hardware side with its own dosage of heavy marketing too as well. If i'm missing something you can always shout at me what i'm missing, but to say the least.. If they want the West they're going to have to really make a push for this phone, cause Smartphones here are practically all over the place as I said.

[QUOTE=coolgame8013;46547529] Apple here is popular because of How Elegant they make their products look[/QUOTE] [img]http://modmyi.com/images/anthony/bentiphone6.png[/img]

[QUOTE=wauterboi;46547366]That calculator app looks pretty bad in hindsight.[/QUOTE] Most parts of iOS 6 looked bad.

Huawei too are gonna be big in the west I reckon. I've already seen some of their phones cropping up in carrier stores.

xiaomi are certainly going to walk right over us copyright laws when it comes to apple alright

[QUOTE=Vodkavia;46547280]The calculator is a big stretch, and has significant colour scheme and layout differences and if you just google image "calculator" you can find a lot of pocket calculators with the same basic colour coding. The radio's wheel functions in a completely different way, it completely lacks a screen and is thicker than a pack of cigs. There's more to Apple's design language than clean white rectangles.[/QUOTE] Holy shit. Seriously. "This lacks a screen and therefor isn't the same" Dude.. there's a 43 year gap between the release of those two devices. Why would a 1958 radio need a screen, and screens were nowhere near affordable back then. Don't be stupid. The point is to indicate that a lot of products look alike, and that plagiarism isn't just "it looks similar".

If they want to get into the western market, they could renamed their brands as XM. Did you know that Lenovo once had a Chinese name for their company until they decided to renamed their brands in order to sell their computer product in the US? It works very well for them. Xiaomi could try to renamed their brand and company name.

[QUOTE=Pr0fane;46548231]Holy shit. Seriously. "This lacks a screen and therefor isn't the same" Dude.. there's a 43 year gap between the release of those two devices. Why would a 1958 radio need a screen, and screens were nowhere near affordable back then. Don't be stupid. The point is to indicate that a lot of products look alike, and that plagiarism isn't just "it looks similar".[/QUOTE] claiming xiaomi's mipad hardware and software design is anything but plagiarism is completely fallacious it follows objective design rules set in place for the iPhone 5c by Apple. Intended [I]for[/I] apple the only reason it hasn't been crushed even before shipping is because they don't sell it outside of china and some other asian countries. Xiaomi wouldn't even design the product like that if they were selling it in the US because they know that they're ripping apple off

Mate loaned me one a brand new Redmi 1S for me to check out. MIUI is pretty slick looking, but the phone got so hot sometimes for no reason I was concerned it was going to burn my cock off. Turns out it seems to be a common thing for a few if the Xiaomi lines. This, apart from the fact that for a while, a software "bug" had these phones phoning home to their Chinese servers for a while despite all attempts to switch off any sort of cloud sync features (prompting an advisory from F-Secure) didn't give them the best first impressions. But compared to some Samsung phones, these phones have some premium quality finish and innards, blowing phones in its price range out of the water. These guys could, if handled well, help China shake off the stigma that made in china products carry when it comes to quality.

[QUOTE=Ezhik;46545836][video=youtube;lVp34KQbAqk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVp34KQbAqk[/video] lol[/QUOTE] I came in expecting them to be some sort of company that makes cheap knock-off devices because I had never heard of them. I see I was kind of right.

[QUOTE=Scot;46547639]Huawei too are gonna be big in the west I reckon. I've already seen some of their phones cropping up in carrier stores.[/QUOTE] I had never heard of this company until I started working in a cellphone repair store, then something like 30% of customers had Huawei brand phones.

[QUOTE=Pat.Lithium;46546210]I think it's pronounced jow mee[/QUOTE] It's pronounced "sheeow me" (source: I speak mandarin)

[QUOTE=nox;46545713]People probably thought the same thing about Toyota or Nintendo.[/QUOTE] Both of those follow consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel patterns.

[QUOTE=Manibogi;46545636]Popular in the west? Not with a name like that.[/QUOTE] Samsung has been established in the west for years iirc. I bet it wasnt that big at the start either.

Seems like every Chinese phone I buy is a good call, first phone I got was ZTE Blade, then Huawei Videos X5 and now Xiaomi Redmi Note. This phone is cheap yes, but the quality is amazing and same goes with speed. Just wish they'd hurry the fuck up with Android 4.4. [editline]23rd November 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Scot;46547639]Huawei too are gonna be big in the west I reckon. I've already seen some of their phones cropping up in carrier stores.[/QUOTE] They already are big in the west, they're in the lead in mobile market. But not just from phones, actually you very likely to find their chips in 3G adapters and in routers, pretty much all carriers here in the UK use their 3G dongles but rebranded.

I am personally waiting for Xiaomi Note 2.

[QUOTE=Disseminate;46551618]It's pronounced "sheeow me" (source: I speak mandarin)[/QUOTE] Not so much sh as it is s though. But yeah, that's about as close as you will get in English.

[QUOTE=Robman8908;46547108][img_thumb]http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/digitalskeuomorphcalcul.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/09/article-0-14ECAE43000005DC-917_634x439.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Except those devices are god knows how many years apart and copyright laws don't apply that long. Copying a design from 50 years ago is retro and breathes fresh air into the scene (it also hurts no-one since the old company in all likelyhood doesn't exist anymore). Copying a design from two months ago is just perpetuating the current designs, halting innovation, and is outright just trying to cut off of profits from the original. [editline]23rd November 2014[/editline] In other words, this would actually be comparable if Xiaomi was copying an Apple design from 50 years ago.

[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;46559237]Except those devices are god knows how many years apart and copyright laws don't apply that long. Copying a design from 50 years ago is retro and breathes fresh air into the scene (it also hurts no-one since the old company in all likelyhood doesn't exist anymore). Copying a design from two months ago is just perpetuating the current designs, halting innovation, and is outright just trying to cut off of profits from the original. [editline]23rd November 2014[/editline] In other words, this would actually be comparable if Xiaomi was copying an Apple design from 50 years ago.[/QUOTE] Check out Xiaomi's new phone guys!!! [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Apple_I_Computer.jpg/640px-Apple_I_Computer.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=Vitalogy;46545695]I started hearing about them about a year and a half ago. At the time I figured they would stay as a big local player in China but I think they really have the potential to go big. Might be a good idea to invest in some of their stock.[/QUOTE] Sadly it is a privately held company, according to Wikipedia at least: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi[/url]

[QUOTE=AK'z;46547581][img]http://modmyi.com/images/anthony/bentiphone6.png[/img][/QUOTE] Aesthetics and quality are two different things. The fact that a phone can break or bend or whatever doesn't mean it detracts from the look of the phone.

[QUOTE=Scot;46547639]Huawei too are gonna be big in the west I reckon. I've already seen some of their phones cropping up in carrier stores.[/QUOTE] I dunno about that. There's a bunch of them here in electronics shops, but most people would rather go for a known brand because the Huaweis are so cheap they look untrustworthy (Plus general prejudice against Chinese brands which are still mostly seen as low quality).

[QUOTE=Pilot1215;46546582]Because people want flashy pieces of crap and Chinese knock offs.[/QUOTE] LOL LMAO LMAO HAHA OWNED #CRAPPLE #SHEEP xiaomi has a history of [URL="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/07/23/xioami"]using photos that aren't theres to promote their camera[/URL] (implying these photos were taken on their phone's camera, and not a dslr) and not to mention at one point even used the icon for apple's aperture [I]on a mockup on the hardware of their phone[/I]. can we think about that for a second

[QUOTE=TacticalBacon;46559574]I dunno about that. There's a bunch of them here in electronics shops, but most people would rather go for a known brand because the Huaweis are so cheap they look untrustworthy (Plus general prejudice against Chinese brands which are still mostly seen as low quality).[/QUOTE] They aren't much cheaper than known brand midrange phones.