China’s CCTV Headquarter in Beijing on a Hazy Day At the beginning of Christopher Nolan’s new blockbuster Interstellar, the earth has become an inhabitable dust bowl with lung-choking air. The terrifying dystopia depicted in the movie may cause anxiety in Chinese people, because it’s very similar to what we are experiencing now. The worsening air […]
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Xiaomi Invests US$25M in Andon’s iHealth for 20% Stake
Andon (SZ:002432), or Jiuan in Chinese, the Chinese healthcare electronics manufacturer, announced to spin off the division for iHeath, the healthcare appcessory brand, and introduce US$25 million financing from Xiaomi, the Chinese smart device maker and software developer. The spin-off is named iHealth Inc., according to the Andon announcement, and Xiaomi will have a 20% stake […]
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Xiaomi’s WiFi Router-centered Smart Home Plan
Xiaomi, the Chinese smart device maker and Internet service developer, isn’t moving slowly in, apart from smartphone, smart home or wearables. Actually it seems a little bit too fast that angered many Chinese startups in the two sectors. The first activity tracker Xiaomi launched last month is sold at RMB 79 (about US$13), a fraction of […]
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Xiaomi Android Button Mi Key Integrates with Chinese Taxi App Kuaidi
Mi Key, the Pressy-like programmable physical button for Android devices developed by Xiaomi, has integrated Kuaidi, one of the leading taxi apps in China, that the latter can be opened with one button click. If there’s no Kuaidi app in your Android phone, the Mi Key’s accompanying app will direct you to an app store […]
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Xiaomi Has Revamped Its Mobile Messaging App MiTalk, Claiming It Has 70M Users
MiTalk, or Mi Liao in Chinese, the mobile messaging app by Xiaomi, launched today a major update, MiTalk 2015. MiTalk was first launched in November 2010, earlier than the launch of Tencent’s WeChat. Back then when mobile messaging apps such as Kik and Talkbox got traction, a wave of Chinese clones, including MiTalk and Qihoo’s […]
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The Chinese Exploring the Potential in Pressy-like Android Buttons
Qihoo 360, the Chinese tech company known for its security brand, launched a Pressy clone at the beginning of this year, invested in and merged another Chinese clone later, and decided to give them away earlier this month. Now the company wants to build an “open platform” for the physical button for Android devices. A software platform […]
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Chinese Android Phone Makers Follow Xiaomi into a Software Arms Race
It’s no secret that Xiaomi wants access control of content or services for mobile and, more recently, smart home. It’s also well-know that, unlike the custom Android systems developed by many older phone makers like HTC’s Sense that are more for better user experience, MIUI is part of Xiaomi’s business model from day one. Compared with the one-time […]
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Xiaomi Leads $37M Investment in Chinese Peer-to-peer Lending Site JimuBox
JimuBox (Jimu means building block in Chinese), an online peer-to-peer lending service, announced today it has raised US$37.19 million in Series B funding led by Xiaomi Corporation, the Chinese smart device and Internet service company, and Shunwei China Internet Fund, a venture capital fund co-founded by Xiaomi CEO and co-founder Lei Jun. Other investors joining this […]
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Chinese Smartphone Maker Meizu Launches New Model MX4
Chinese smartphone maker Meizu launched today MX4, the fourth Android phone of the MX series. Tech Specs of MX4: Operating System: Flyme 4.0 (The fourth update of the custom Android system developed by Meizu) Weight: 147g Colors: Gold, Gray, White Dimensions: 144×75.2×8.9 mm Display: JDI 5.36-inch display, 1920-by-1152-pixel resolution Protection: Corning Gorilla Glass 3 CPU: MediaTek 6595 octa-core processor (custom version […]
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Xiaomi Launches Fourth-gen Flagship Android Phone and Fitness Band
Since its first flagship model was launched in August 2011, a total of over 57.36 million Xiaomi phones have been shipped as of today (The number is 52.3 million as of June 2014), according to the company. Unsurprisingly, Mi 3, its third flagship phone launched in September 2013, is way less popular than Red Mi, a […]
