Xiaomi announced the Mi 10 series last month but unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the availability of this handset has been affected severely. So far, the Mi 10 duo (selected variants) went on sale a couple of times post the launch event on February 13. But that might change soon as the Chinese smartphone maker sold all the storage variants of the Mi 10 in a sale today.
The sale scheduled for today was the third sale for Mi 10. The last sale on February 14 was only limited to the 8GB + 256GB variant. But this time around, all the storage configurations of the device were made available, however, with some caveats. Only the 8GB + 128GB and 12GB + 256GB variants priced at 3999 Yuan (~$571) and 4699 Yuan (~$671) respectively were available for purchase, whereas the 8GB + 256GB version retailing for 4299 Yuan (~$614) could only be pre-ordered. Also, the shipping is expected to commence before March 26, which is about two weeks from today.
Going by the situation, we can clearly picture how coronavirus is affecting businesses in China (worldwide too). Xiaomi’s Lei Jun took to Weibo to announce that Mi 10 Pro and the standard Mi 10 will be only made available once a week on Tuesdays and Fridays respectively. He even added that supplies will still take some time to recover suggesting the situation in China to be not yet stable. Hopefully, the condition will turn around soon as the rise of new COVID-19 cases has been falling in China and thus most businesses have already begun lately.
With all that being said, Xiaomi is yet to launch the Mi 10 series globally, which is set for March 27.
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