On 10th January 2020, Lei Jun, Co-Founder and CEO of Xiaomi group, revealed on the company was almost called Xuande or Red Star when it was founded. The story was shared earlier today on the 10th anniversary of the Xiaomi community.

According to Lei Jun, a few of the founding members sat for a meeting, the first official meeting ever, on 14th January 2010. In the meeting, the main topic of discussion was the naming of the brand. Apparently, Red Star was one of the first to be proposed but was rejected due to a certain trademark issue.

Another name that was put up was Xuande but that was also not approved due to people saying it not sounding right. The list of supposed names numbered in the hundreds and included Red Storm, Xuande, Qianqi, Antong, Lingxi and more, which were introduced a decade ago.

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Since the Xiaomi was branded, the “MI” logo has been prevalent and associated with the company. Mi stands for more than just an acronym (shortened version) and holds two different meanings, according to Lei Jun. First, Mobile Internet, as Xiaomi was going to be a mobile company on the internet. The second was Mission Impossible as the company was going to perform and complete a task that seemed impossible, difficult or not yet undertaken.

Lastly, the founder also shared a Buddhist proverb that described the aforementioned values relating a grain of rice to a large mountain. This was shared on the senior executive’s official Weibo account (the Chinese microblogging website).

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The recently launched Xiaomi Mi 5S and 5S Plus were unveiled without the customary Mi logo at the front which used to be the trademark of Xiaomi. The phones only had the rear Mi logo situated at the bottom of the device. However, a recent survey conducted by Xiaomi seems to suggest that the company may be tinkering about making that permanent but before they do that, they are sampling the opinions of fans.

The survey apparently became necessary because perhaps lots of complaints had so far trailed the removal of the logo that used to be on the front. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun even weighed in on the matter and enjoined fans to hop into the Mi community forum and vote in the opinion poll.

So far, though, uncertainty has been the word. The poll have seen divergent views with respondents on Weibo toeing a direction different from that of those on the Mi forum. Most of the respondents on Weibo  think it doesn’t matter whether the Mi Logo is there up front or not (Weibo pool results down below). On the other hand, a larger percentage of the respondents (57.05% so far) on the Mi Community forum think the Mi logo should remain at the front(Results up above).

The opinion poll is still open for voting and you can as well join in the fray and give your opinion.

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