Xiaomi, a Chinese company and the third largest smartphone maker in the world, held one of its big events in Beijing on Thursday. Among the now-standard Xiaomi launch fanfare, the company introduced… Read more »
Xiaomi has completed a $1.1 billion funding round that values the Chinese smartphone startup at $45 billion, the company announced on Monday. Xiaomi’s valuation and raise matches reports from earlier this year,… Read more »
Xiaomi reported only 347.5 million yuan in net profit last year on a regulatory filing which works out to USD $56 million — which means Xiaomi’s operating margin works out to… Read more »
Samsung makes a lot of different phones, almost all of them functionally identical Android devices with slight differences. Now it’s planning to streamline the number of smartphones it makes by at… Read more »
Meizu, a handset maker focused on China, packs a 1152 x 1920 screen and a 20-megapixel Sony camera into its latest $300 smartphone, but it uses a less desirable MediaTek chip. Read more »
Android device sales continued to rise overall in the final quarter of 2013 but the big winner in China isn’t a name you might have expected. The top dog isn’t Samsung;… Read more »
Xiaomi, a high-end smartphone maker in China, and Movile, Brazil’s biggest and most important wireless carrier, showcase the challenges Apple faces in those two markets. Read more »