A Weibo user has posted a screenshot of his private message exchange with Xiaomi‘s Li Xiaoshuang, general manager of Xiaomi TV. The blogger had asked when the next-generation Mi TV will be launched since the year s drawing to an end. The Xiaomi exec is said to have hinted that the Mi TV 5 will be released in no distant time, specifically, within a month.
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If we are to take Li’s statement literally, it implies that the Mi TV 5 will be released before November 19 and that is likely to be in China. IT Homes quotes an inside source to have said that the Mi TV 5 will be released before 11.11 (November 11). Interestingly, there has been virtually no indication of a new-generation Mi TV coming. The company recently launched the Mi TV Pro but apart for the 8K support, the TV isn’t too spectacular.
Xiaomi continues to rank as the number one smart TV brand in China and even in India. According to data released by Aowei.com, the firm shipped a total of 5.4 million smart TV units in the first half of 2019. This represents a year-on-year increase of 64.9%. It may interest you to note that the Chinese giant shipped 8.4 million units in 2018. So, this year’s shipment will likely be higher and Xiaomi will want to rejig sales with a new-gen Mi TV 5. Xiaomi TV’s GM recently conducted a Weibo survey which suggested the company was planning to take on the premium TV segment similar to what OnePlus did with the OnePlus TV Q1 models. So could we see Xiaomi launch a QLED TV this year? Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
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