How to turn on your Mi 3’s flashlight…

From the lock screen:

1. Long tap the HOME button on the lock screen.
2. To turn the flashlight off, press the power button.

From the Home Screen:

1. Tap the Tools folder
2. Find and launch the Torch App

To add the  Torch button to the Notification Panel of your Mi 3, making it easy to operate the flashlight from anywhere on your phone. Here’s how:

1. Swipe the Notification Panel open from the top.
2. Select ‘Toggles’ and then ‘More’
3. Tap and hold the  symbol next to Torch and then drag it to the area above the ‘active bar’.

Now the torch will be available on the Toggles Panel and tapping it will turn the flashlight on and off.

Also, if you want a better flashlight, you can get a brighter one that blinks by downloading the Super-Bright LED Flashlight app.

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After we have covered the officiall name for upcoming Xiaomi flaghsip smartphone, the new phoe that called as Xiaomi Mi3S is ready to heading the market on April 23rd, it’s mean that few days from now.

The new Xiaomi smartphone is ready to announced and seems will come with Xiaomi tablet devices. And according to the information, Xiaomi will released three new devices at those launching event. if you’re see the announced poster, there is a keyboard picture. that’s mean the Xiaomi will also released ythe external wireless keyboard for it’s products?

let’s wait and see.

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Xiaomi is ready to release their new flagship smartphone, the phone has been spread as the rumors for a few months ago, and the company did not say anything about the upcoming smartphone name.

But now, Xiaomi has officially announced the upcoming smartphone will be determine as Xiaomi Mi3S. Through their official Twitter account the company has announced that the upcoming phone is also becoming the upgrade version from the previous model.

The phone will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AC, sports with 3GB of RAM, coupled with 8 megapixel front facing camera and 13 megapixel rear facing camera, support for FDD LTE / TD-LTE 4G network.

The phone is packs with 5 inch 2K display screen, this is the first smartphone from Xiaomi that has 2K screen.

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Back on five month ago the news about Xiaomi red Rice 2 smartphone has been spread out, and now we have heard another news that the upcoming Xiaomi Red Rice 2 will be released on February and available in two version.

According to @PanJiutang micro blogging account, he has broke the news about the Xiaomi Red Rice 1A phone will be powered by MSM8X28 processor and will work with Mobile Telecom network, also continued with China Unicom version of the same platform will be launched, the price may still be 799 yuan or around $132 USD price tag. In addition, attention once again to confirm the Xiaomi Red Rice 2 will be listed in the post in the end of this February with 999 yuan or around $165 USD price tag.

More interesting is that he also gives the second quarter of Red Rice series about plans in April of this year, perhaps the Red Rice phones equipped with six-core processor, the new machine appeared, but with the use of previously speculated MediaTek Cortex-A12 + A7’s new six-core is different, Six-core red rice is equipped with MT6592 less equipped version, removed the two cores, the chip model is perhaps the MT6591?

While the Quad-core version is possible to use MTK6582 quad-core platform, 6-core and 8-core Red Rice prices might on 799 yuan ($132 USD) / 599 yuan ($100 USD) price range.

The above message came shortly before the follow-up as well as Red Rice combination 4/6/8 processor agreement, from the predicted price

The Xiaomi Red Rice 2 will be equipped with 5.5 inches screen and 720P resolution, powered by MTK6592 eight-core processor, the rest should not be less than the same level of specification products.

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Xiaomi has just tried a new way of marketing , they’ve selling their smartphone using WeChat messenger. And it turns out, the marketing steps worked out very well. Within 10 minutes, Xiaomi successfully sold 150 thousand units of its Xiaomi Mi3 smartphone.

More details, Xiaomi through his official account on Sina Weibo said that 150 thousand units of Mi3 is sold out in 9 minutes and 55 seconds. The marketing through WeChat itself is part of the cooperation between the two companies that allows to extend the reach of marketing.

This cooperation also raises the potential of developing WeChat as an e-commerce platform. Starting from booking smartphones to payment, everything is done in the WeChat application.

Xiaomi smartphone is more popular now. In fact, not infrequently Xiaomi hundreds of thousands of Android smartphones sold in a matter of minutes. Previously, at the time of sale of the first phase, a total of 100 thousand Xiaomi Mi3 runs in just 86 seconds.

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After we’ve covered the news about the Xiaomi is ready to release the next generation of Red Rice smartphone or also known as Red Rice 2 smartphone, and now we heard that the phone will be available in twi version, what’s is the different?

The Red Rice smartphone will be packs with 5,5 inch screen size but the phone will has different processor, the Xiaomi Red Rice 2 will be available with MediaTek MT6589 quad-core processor and the other version will be powered by MT6588 processor.

Although the MT6588 processor is not yet available in the market, but the specs of those phone has been exposure, the MT6588 version will has 28nm HPM new processor, with A7 core chipset with 1.7Ghz (rumors 1.8/1.9G data should be incorrect), support for LP DDR3 memory. MT6588 will has same GPU with MT6592 for MALI-450MP4, but the frequency is lower than the MT6592 GPU is about 600MHz, supports 13 megapixel camera and 1080P video recording and playback.

The MediaTek MTK6588 is currently the most powerful performance quad-core processor in the market today, since the chipset has graphics processors and other aspects of strengthening, multimedia, games and other aspects of the experience will certainly be surpassed 6589/6589T chipset.

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Xiaomi 3 TD version has been unveiled, and now we have an unboxing video of those phone. This is the flagship smartphone from Xiaomi, since packs with high specs and has a lots of features.

Xiaomi 3 TD version is offers with 5 inch 1080p screen, powered by Tegra 4 quad-core processor, and 13 megapixel rear camera. This phone is also has 3,050 mAh lithium battery.

Here are the unboxing video of Xiaomi 3 Android smartphone :

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Xiaomi is ready to relese the new Xiaomo Mi3 Android smartphone and Xiaomi TV, this news has been spread in the net recently, and now we heard that Xiaomi is ready to open pre-order for Xiaomi Mi3 Android smartphone and Xiaomi TVon October 10th this year.

The Xiaomi Mi3 smartphone has been introducing on early September and now Xiaomi is officially open the appointment for preorder. According to the official website Xiaomi is preapring 10 million units of mobile phones and thousand units of Xiaomi TV, the two products open to buy time for the October 15th.

Xiaomi has preparing the two version of Xiaomi Mi3 smartphone, for China Mobile and China Unicom. The China Mobile version is powered by Tegra4 with 1.8GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB or 64GB of storage space memory interal options; while the China Unicom version is equipped with a 2. 3G Hz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor. Packs with a 5-Inch 1080p screen, 13 megapixel camera.

Xiaomi TV is an intelligent 3D TV, using 47 inches screen, equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor, loading with large game applications and HD video, the faster speed TV. Currently, the price of Xioami TV is offers with 2,999 yuan or around $490 USD.

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The one of Chinese smartphone maker, Xiaomi will finally officially launch their new flagship smartphone Xiaomi Mi3. Co-founder of Xiaomi, Liwan Jiang announced that the latest Xiaomi mobile phone will go on sale on October 15th.

The new Xiaomi Mi3 will only powered by Tegra 4, while the next released of Xiaomi Mi3 will be powered by Snapdragon 800.

Unfortunately, Liwan Jiang not explicitly tell to us when they will be release the Snapdragon version . of Xiaomi Mi3, while we assume that the phone will go on sale in November. And another rumor says that the Snapdragon 800 version of Xiaomi Mi3 will be available on the market in next year.
We’re not sure why this version doesn’t come first, but what do we know. Perhaps China Telecom, which is the world’s largest mobile operator, wants an exclusive launch window; perhaps we have the newer version of Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974AB) used inside the MI3 to blame. Other devices using this chip (which are already available) rock model MSM8974.

The Xiaomi Mi3 smartphone is packs with 5-inch full HD screen, sports with 2GB of RAM, there is a 13 megapixel rear camera with Sony’s Exmor RS CMOS sensor, and powered by 3050mAh battery capacity, there is two options of storage 16GB that offers for $327 USD price or 64 GB for $408 USD price per unit.

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While Apple has been officially introducing the new Gold version of iPhone 5S, this color is becoming more popular and follows by another smartphone manufacturer to built the same color in their products.

Xiaomi smartphone seems to have to follow Apple to making the gold color version for Xiami 3 and Xiaomi 2S, while the color is only put in the Xiaomi smartphone back casing this gold color is not too shiny as iPhone 5S, but it’s still look good, nice and very elegant color.

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Xiaomi is the one of popular smartphone maker in China, after they released the new Xaomi Red Rice phone, Xiaomi is also becoming the hype after they already hire the Google’s ex-VP of Android, Hugo Barra, just tendered his resignation to become VP of Xiaomi Global.

The Xiaomi Red Rice phone, also known as the Hongmi, sells for RMB799 in China (around $130 USD) putting it firmly in that low-end market.

Despite its low price tag, the phone has respectable hardware including a MediaTek MT6589 chipset that reportedly accounts for 20% of the overall manufacturing costs. packs with 4.7-inch IPS display is made by AUO and represents 22% of the device costs. The screen does offer 312ppi making it a nice upgrade from the more common 220ppi smartphone screens in similarly priced devices.

According to TrendForce, the Xiaomi is only $85 bill of material (BOM) for Xiaomi Red Rice phone, this is the nice strategy. The Xiaomi’s groundbreaking price will inevitably have an influence on other smartphone manufacturers’ pricing strategies, especially for low to mid-end products.

The Xiaomi is able to squeeze so much profit out of its device in part by controlling when the product is unveiled and controlling its inventory more effectively than competitors.

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The rumors about Xiaomi 3 smartphone is floating this week, and some folks is waiting this smartphone.

The new Xiaomi 3 is packs with  3.5 inch screen size with 1080p, this phone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 800. Coupled with 5 megapixel camera and 13 megapixel rear facing camera.

According to rumor, the new Xiaomi 3 will be released on September 5th, butnow we have a leaked picture of the phone.

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While we’ve covered the news about the new flaghsip Xiaomi Mi3 smartphone, is now we have an example picture that taken by Xiaomi Mi3 smartphone.

Recently, the PR Manager of Xiaomi, Yang Lin is show the example picture through the micro bloggingf site.

According the EXIF information on that picture, is that the real picture that taken by Xiaomi device, that we mentioned before the new Xiaomi Mi3 smartphone will sports with 5 megapixel front facing camera and 13 megapixel rear camera.

The phone will be running Android operating system and powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor.

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Xiaomi has been launching the new Xiaomi Red Rice Android smartphone, is now we have a picture and video comparison between Xiaomi Red Rice and Xiaomi 2A and Xiaomi 2S Android smartphone.

Although we have seen a lot of evaluation before, but it all comes from the hands on. And there are already mobile phone users received a Xiaomi Red Rice, smartphone and now we have to see from the user on the phone evaluation.

The video showing the comparison between the Xiaomi Red Rice vs Xiaomi 2A and Xiaomi 2S appearance, there is also a coupled picture of Xiaomi Red Rice run AnTuTu benchamark test points, game results and photographing imaging.

The Xiaomi Red Rice phone is sports with a 4.7 inch screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 and is powered by a 1.5GHz MT6589T quad-core processor. The phone runs on Version 5 of Xiaomi’s own highly customizable Android-based MIUI firmware, and features an 8-megapixel rear camera as well as a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, and dual SIM function. It also comes with 1GB of RAM and 4GB worth of extendable memory.

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After we’ve covered the rumor of Xiaomi Mi3 before, is now we have leaked picture of leather cover case of Xiaomi Mi3 smartphone, that also revealed the existence of rear camera on the top left corner.

While we writing this news, we are not sure is that accesory is the official leather case from Xiaomi or only  a case from thrid party manufacturer, but there is a Xiaomi logo in the front and the case design is little longer than recent Xiaomi smartphone.

The intersting is that leather case show the hole on the top left corner in the rear side, that’s the new Xiaomi Mi3 will has rear camera over there.

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Xiaomi has been officially release the new Xiaomi Red Rice smartphone, this is the most wanted phone this year since the reservation number reached 7,450,000, while the first round of supply just only 100,000 units and was sold out in only 90 seconds.

The Xiaomi Red Rice is the first smartphone from Xiaomi that packs with dual card and dual standby capabilities, working on TD-SCDMA + GSM network. And recently, Lei Jun as CEO of Xiaomi has just to respond.

Lei Jun said that his company is preparing another batch and now Xiaomi Red Rice : “The Red Rice TD + G dual card dual standby, many people is interesting to this smartphone, so I will disclose in advance, Red Rice W + G dual card dual standby is in full development, also need to wait for some time. Added Qualcomm royalties, we decided to sell the phone for 799 yuan price. ”

Red Rice phones also is the first time that offers through the official microblogging site, it seems WCDMA + GSM version has been in the development process, will still maintain the low price of 799 yuan, the specific release date is uncertain. However, since the discharge outlet air LEI, should also not be too long. Then, the user will be more extensive range of options.

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Xiaomi is reporting to preparing the new Red Rice smartphone, this phone is targeting for low-end market segment. And now we have a compariosn video between Xiaomi smartphone with Xiaomi Red Rice smartphone that has 4.7 inch screen size.

The Red Rice phone, which will start being carried first by the operator, will retail at a price of RMB999 ($160 USD).

The device is said to be 9.9mm thick and sport a 4.7 inch 720p screen. It will reportedly be powered by a 1.5GHz MT6589T quad-core processor and run on Version 5 of Xiaomi’s own highly customizable Android-based MIUI firmware.

The Red Rice phone will also reportedly come with 1GB of RAM and 4GB worth of extendable memory and feature an 8-megapixel rear camera as well as a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, a 2000 mAh battery, and dual SIM function.

Pre-orders will apparently start from July 30. Xiaomi has been cooperate with QQ network and the lauch event will be held in Beijing. After you et the pre-order, you can get the phone around August 16th 2013.

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The one of China smartphone maker, Xiaomi has gain the success, Xiaomi has been success to selling their new Android smartphone Xiaomi Mi 2S, this phone has been sold for 200,000 units in 45 second since it’s released.

This phone is also offers with affordable price, the 16GB version is offers with 320 price tag while the 32GB version is offers with 370 price tag.

The Xiaomi Mi 2S is the new flagship smartphone from Xiaomi which powered by Snapdragon 600 with 1,7GHz quad-core processor, this phone is also packs with 4,3 inch screen size with 720p, 2GB of RAM.

As we mention before, this phone is also beat the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone through AnTuTu benchmark. However, the scores obtained witha lower resolution screen of the Galaxy S4.

For a while now, Xiaomi is offers in Chinese market and not available in the market outside China. While the other Chinese manufacturer, Oppo has been available in other country.

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Xiaomi is one of popular phone maker in China, this manufacturer is very strong to offers smartphone for Chinese market. Xiaomi has been launching the new Xiaomi 2S and 2A Android smartphone recently.

The new flagship smartphone, Xiaomi 2S and 2A is running Android operating system with MIUI custom ROM and while it has Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One-like silicon it only costs half their price.

Xiaomi has already growing their company since 201, from that time Xiaomi is only producing 7,19 million smartphone which sold on 2012, and now the sales should double for around 15 million on 2013.

“We believe the future of the mobile Internet is really about services,” Xiaomi co-founder Bin Lin said. “Cellphones are really just like PCs were 20 years ago. They generated big profit margins in the beginning. But those margins are in the single digits now. The same thing is beginning to happen to smartphones. So rather than focus on devices where margins will decline, we’re focusing on services.”

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Xiaomi have sold this phone to the market starting in April, and the first sale was opened today, Tuesday, April 16, 2013, Xiaomi has prepared 20,000 units for the first wave of 2S phone while in total there were 200,000 units Xiaomi 2S phone that had been prepared.

Xiaomi 2S mobile phone is aimed for China Telecom’s network with the 16GB version and is equipped with 8 megapixel camera and is offered at a price of 1999 yuan or around $232 USD.

Also available is a two-year contact for users of China Unicom, 16GB capacities with priced of 2399 yuan or around $387 USD, the existing offerings, users have the choice of 2-year or 3-year contract and enjoy buying the phone without a price ($ 0) wow….

According to Xiaomi’s senior employees, Xiaomi phone 2S for the Hong Kong and Taiwan have been completed with MIUI V5 and Google RUPS, including Android Market, Gmail, Gtalk, Google Calendar, YouTube and other Google applications.

Please find the offer price Xiaomi Mi 2S from Android-sale.com

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While we’ve ever covered the news about the new Xiaomi Mi-2S and Mi-2A Android phone, is now we have a comparison video between Xiaomi Mi-2S vs Xiaomi Mi-2 smartphone.

As we mentioned on the other article, the new Xiaomi Mi-2S is the one of flagship smartphone which powered by Quadcore Snapdragon 600 1.7 GHz processor with 16GB of storage media. Mi-2S uses a 4.3-inch screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. Sports with 13-megapixel rear-mounted camera and 2000 mAh battery capacity.

According to Xiaomi, the performance of Xiaomi 2S is powered by the Krait CPU 300 1.7 GHz quad-core it carries can beat Samsung Galaxy S4 Krait CPU 300 using 1.9 GHz. The testing is done by using an AnTuTu benchmark, Quadrant, and Vellamo.

Here is the comparison video between Xiaomi Mi-2S vs Xiaomi Mi-2 Android smartphone.

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Xiaomi has been held the big event in Beijing National Convention Center, on that event Xiaomi is releasing two model of Android Phone, the Xiaomi 2A and Xiaomi 2S.

This phone has nearly same design and specs but both devices is different, since those device using different processors. And now we want to show you the difference between Xiaomi 2S and Xiaomi 2A Android smartphone.

Xiaomi 2S is the flagship Xiaomi smartphone thats powered by Quadcore Snapdragon 600 1.7 GHz processor with 16GB of storage media. Mi-2S uses a 4.3-inch screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. Sports with 13-megapixel rear-mounted camera and 2000 mAh battery capacity

Xiaomi 2A is powered by Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.7 GHz dual-core. The screen size of 4.3 inches and packs with 8MP rear facing camera plus a 2MP front-facing camera. The phone supports up to 5G wifi NFC.

Xiaomi MIUI ROM also update with new icons and wallpapers. The camera also has the automatic features that can take a pictures without the need to push the button. By saying ‘cheese’, the camera will slingshot itself due to features via voice activation. The sound is cool isn’t it?

Xiaomi 2S  is offers with only 2299 yuan or about US$ 370. To anticipate demand, Xiaomi has set up 100,000 unit since the first day of the announcement. Last year Xiaomi Mi-Two is able to sell 50,000 units in just 5 minutes and 14 seconds since launch. While the Xiaomi 2A will be priced at US$ 241 and will be available in 3 weeks.

According to Xiaomi, the performance of Xiaomi 2S is powered by the Krait CPU 300 1.7 GHz quad-core it carries can beat Samsung Galaxy S4 Krait CPU 300 using 1.9 GHz. The testing is done by using an AnTuTu benchmark, Quadrant, and Vellamo.

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Xiaomi is one of Chinese smartphone manufacturer which has unveiled the Xiaomi M2 recently, and now we grab the information that Xiaomi is ready to push the Xiaomi M2S to Chinese market through China Telecom.

The new Xiaomi M2S is paks with 4.3-inch, 720p resolution screen and other specs but with a 1.7GHz quad-core APQ8064 CPU — likely a Snapdragon 600. This phone is offers with $370 USD price tag, this phone will be available on the market on April 9th.

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Lei Jun, founder and CEO of Xiaomi smartphone, announced that it will produce 15 million handsets in 2013. The target has risen more than doubled compared to last year, reported to have sold 7.19 smartphone.

Hans Tung, Xiaomi investor at Qiming Venture Partners – also revealed last week that Xiaomi only take a small profit margin of 10%. The company has recorded a startup is always competitive with the selling price. One of the flagship Android smartphone Xiaomi MI2 only has price 1999 RMB (about $310 USD).

In this year, Xiaomi will begin sales outside of China for the first time. Next month, Xiaomi will launch the official online sales for fans of Android in the region of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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One of Chinese smartphone manufacturers, Xiaomi reportedly preparing a new mobile phone named Xiaomi Mi2A which ever covered by GizmoChina before. Interestingly, this phone will most likely be the first phone that will use  Snapdragon 400 chipset by Qualcomm.

Xiaomi has claimed, this phone will come with a 4:46-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 720p HD. This phone also comes with 1GB of RAM, super thin bezel, sports with 16GB of internal memory and an 8 megapixel primary camera on the back.

For processors, Xiaomi is said to be using a dual core processor Snapdragon MSM930 400. This processor will have speeds of 1.7GHz and also sports with Adreno 305 GPU. Regarding the price, this phone is likely to be priced around $208 USD to $240 USD.

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We got the leaked picture of Xiaomi smartphone back cover, this picture is claimed taken from Foxconn and this is the 3rd generation of Xiaomi smartphone which will be released soon.

Based on those leaked picture, we can see the camera will be located in the upper left corner of back body, it seems will be equipped with dual LED flash light, while there is a Xiaomi logo below. In addition, this third generations Xiaomi phone will be equipped with a 5-inch screen size, the resolution is bound to 1080p but we are not sure about this resolution.

From the previous rumor, the Xiaomi phone may be equipped with third generations Tegra 4 processor, but I believe that the Xiaomi and Qualcomm cooperation relations perspective, while the Xiaomi has been show their smartphone powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 600/800 at CES2013, after all, Snapdragon 600/800 performance does not seem to be the Tegra 4.

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