Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp is seeing signs of a sales recovery in China, it said as the country claims it is returning to normal after being the epicenter of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak which has quickly grown into a global pandemic that has severed the flow of goods and people, stalled economies, and is […]
Xiaomi has announced the Redmi K30 Pro, its latest high-spec-low-price contender. It offers a lot of power for the money but only in China, so far. A sequel to the K20 Pro, the K30 Pro packs a Snapdragon 865 processor with built-in 5G support, along with a circular, quad-camera array and pop-up 20-megapixel selfie camera. […]
The new Black Shark 3 Pro takes things off the screen with physical pop-up shoulder buttons. In game mode, users can choose to use the two, 21-millimeter-wide buttons that raise 1.5 millimeters from the body of the phone. The buttons can supposedly withstand over 300,000 lifts and more than one million clicks. The Black Shark […]
Xiaomi has officially announced the launch date for its highly anticipated Mi 10 series of smartphones on February 13th in China with a global launch to follow on February 23rd, the day before Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona, Spain. According to Xiaomi’s Weibo posts, the flagship lineup will be unveiled first in China. […]
Xiaomi smartphone and set-top box owners in China will soon have access to potentially life-saving early earthquake warnings right on their devices. At its annual Mi Developer conference in Bejing, the Chinese electronics company said its MIUI 11-based smartphones and Mi TV set-top boxes now include an early earthquake warning feature. Xiaomi claims the system […]
Xiaomi has unveiled the CC9 Pro smartphone that has one of the highest-resolution cameras period that you can buy. For instance, the 108-megapixel wide-angle camera has more resolution than Fujifilm’s 102-megapixel GFX 100 medium format camera, which has a sensor about 15 times larger. On top of that, the CC9 Pro has four other rear […]
Xiaomi gears up to launch its 108-megapixel phone at its November 5th event, the company has also unveiled details of its upcoming smartwatch and it looks awfully familiar. The device which will probably be called the Mi Watch. Although the Chinese company has been selling smartwatches with its Amazfit partner for sometime now, the Mi […]
Xiaomi is in expansion mode with the launch of a new brand that’s aimed at winning friends and sales among the young and fashionable. Mi CC stands for Camera+Camera, referring to the upcoming phones’ dual camera setups. This would suggest Xiaomi hopes to attract teens by amplifying the photo-taking abilities of future devices. Specifications aren’t […]
Xiaomi senior vice president Wang Xiang tweeted a series of slides that explained more about how the feature actually works, via DPReview. For Xiaomi’s implementation of the feature, the camera is embedded in the top of the device, as usual. But instead of putting a border around it (a notch) or cutting a hole in […]
We’ve seen phone makers coming up with creative ways to avoid the front-camera notch or hole, with the pop-up camera being an increasingly common option among Chinese phones, along with the flip-up camera. But now, it appears that Oppo has found a non-mechanical solution — an under-display selfie camera. Oppo VP Brian Shen showed off […]
We’ve already seen the Xiaomi foldable phone after the company released a video of its CEO playing around with the concept device, but now we’ve been given another, 10-second sneak peek of this intriguing handset. Unlike its foldable rivals – the Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X – Xiaomi’s flexible device boasts two hinges. […]
Last year’s Black Shark proved to be a decent, if unremarkable entry into the gaming smartphone market for Xiaomi, but now the Chinese phone maker seems set to deliver the goods with its follow-up, the Black Shark 2. Announced today, the Xiaomi Black Shark 2 boasts a pressure sensitive 6.39-inch AMOLED display, allowing players to […]
HIGHS Great photography Lightweight feel Reasonable price LOWS Slow user interface Camera felt a little slow Physically, the Xiaomi Mi 9 felt great to use. It was just light and thin enough to feel like a solid device, and the curved back felt novel to hold. However when using the camera, Google assistant or the […]