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Xiaomi CyberDog will be showcased in over 100 Mi Home Stores in China

Sean — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 07:22:57 +0000

Xiaomi had unveiled the new CyberDog robot a couple of weeks ago during a product launch event. Now, the company has officially announced earlier today (1st September 2021) that it will be showcasing the four legged robot in over 100 Mi Home Stores across its home country of China.

The Chinese tech giant shared the news regarding the CyberDog on the Mi Home Weibo account, with image posters. Looking at these promotional posters, it is clear that the company aims on unveiling its latest product in areas like provincial capitals, capitals, and municipalities in China first. For those unaware, the CyberDog is a bio inspired quadruped robot is powered by NVIDIA’s Jetson Xavier NX AI Supercomputer for Embedded and Edge Systems paired with 128GB of SSD storage.

Furthermore, the new robot also houses a number of cameras, microphones, and sensors on the head of the robot that gives it spatial perception capabilities that is comparable to the human eye. This includes AI cameras, binocular ultra wide cameras and Intel’s RealSense D450 depth camera module that enables it to avoid obstacles as it navigates its way around. It even sports SLAM mapping and auto tracking.

While a similar quadruped robot called Spot from Boston Dynamic sells for a whopping 74,500 US Dollars, Xiaomi is offering its robot for just 9,999 Yuan (roughly 1,540 US Dollars). In other words, it makes this product significantly more affordable than the US made robot.

Redmi Smart TV Max 98-inch to hit offline store 8 months after launch

Balaji S — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:19:52 +0000

Xiaomi announced the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98-inch back in March in China. This is the company’s Biggest TV by-far in the country. After multiple sales across its online channels, Xiaomi is finally ready to let users experience the 98-inch madness in a store and buy it offline.

As Mydrivers reports, Xiaomi‘s Mi Home Weibo has shared an official post regarding the arrival of the TV. Accordingly, Xiaomi will open a new Mi Shenyang Changbai Wanxianghui store on December 12 in China. The Mi Home store will be located in Shenyang city, northeast Liaoning Province of the country. Anyway, at the launch, the company says it will unveil the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98-inch for the first time in an offline store.

If you recall, the company, despite announcing the TV two weeks back, launched the 98-inch TV only on 9th April, 2020 in China. Priced at 19,999 yuan($3054), the TV was available for sale online via Xiaomi Mall and official website. Now, after about eight-months of sale, the company seems to be bringing it to the offline market as well.

That said, the improvement in sales could have made the company push it for the offline segment. To be precise, the company first sold over 1,500 units in less than 11 hours back in June. Later, it followed this trend with another 1,600 unit sales in a single day. Having said that, we need to wait and see how Xiaomi manages to attract the offline audience to buy this humongous TV.

Coming back, Xiaomi says the new Store will also include gifts for people who buy the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98-inch. One such is the Redmi Note 9 as per the company’s post. However, it’s unclear if the gift will be a 4G or one of the 5G versions. Additionally, there are other surprise gifts as well but they are supposed to be limited.

The Redmi Smart TV MAX 98-inch is as tall as the company’s founder Lei Jun. The TV is huge and complex to build as well. Consequently, installing the TV at your home also requires a special professional team. Some of the notable features include a 98-inch 4K UHD display panel(LCD) that has 85% NTSC color gamut, 192 dynamic backlight zones, MEMC motion compensation, custom Amlogic T972 SoC with 4GB RAM, 64GB storage, and more image quality tuning technology.

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One in Five TVs sold in China in 2019 was a Mi TV: Xiaomi

Joel Joseph — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:03:34 +0000

In December 2019, Xiaomi became the first Chinese TV maker to cross 10 million shipments in a year. Today, the company has revealed key figures of its Mi TV business in China. Xiaomi announced today that one in five TVs sold in China was a Mi TV. The company cited a report from the market research firm Beijing Zhongyi Kang.

Xiaomi shared an image featuring Mi TV lineup’s key achievements in China last year. Mi TVs were the top-selling TVs in five major size segments in 2019: 32-inches, 43-inches, 50-inches, 65-inches, and 70-inches. The brand now has a market share of 19.25% in China. It was also the number 1 TV maker in China for four consecutive quarters.

Jiang Cong, the GM of Xiaomi Mi TV in China said that the brand’s success was driven by its Triathlon strategy that entails three components – Hardware, Internet Services, and New Retail. He added that with sales support, the Mi TV brand will be able to invest in better technology, picture quality and other keys areas of R&D for superior quality TV models in the future.

Figures translated: No.1 brand in four quarters | 10.46 shipments in 2019(Jan 1 – Dec 31) |1 in 5 TVs sold in China was a Mi Tv | Best Selling TV brand in 5 size segments: 32″, 43″, 50″, 65″, 70″ | Mi TVs accounted for 33% sales in 65″, 41% sales in 70″, and 25% in 75″ size segments online

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Xiaomi Aims To Exceed 100 billion Yuan ($14.5 billion) in Sales in 2017

Jed John Ikoba — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 08:16:00 +0000

Chinese innovative tech company Xiaomi has set a tall figure for itself this year, aiming to rake in more than 100 billion yuan ($14.5 billion USD) of revenue in 2017, Bloomberg reports. This is coming even as the company pledged to go slower at its pace of business expansion and to completely change its online-focused retail strategy which had been successful but unable to sustain the company’s growth.

Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun is credited to have laid down the company’s strategy for 2017 in a memo posted on WeChat. The Chief Executive of China’s most valuable startup, in the memo, talked about drastically increasing its store network with additional 200 outlets established. He also envisioned a global expansion for the brand, as well as deepening research into artificial intelligence and online finance. The CEO admitted that Xiaomi had tried to expand too rapidly in past years.

The company even failed to consolidate on the success of its online-only sales model which fostered the bond with its fans and reduced cost for the company. When rivals copied the strategy and created competition as well as focusing on their own offline sales strategy, the company was left in the lurch without making efforts to add other channels to its sales model. Now, according to Lei Jun, Xiaomi plans to build on a network of about 54 outlets around the country. Another strategy the company seems to be pursuing is a shift outside the Chinese market, especially North America and India. While it may be difficult breaking into the US circuit, India holds lots of potentials for the company. In 2016, smartphone sales surpassed $1 billion USD for Xiaomi in India. That figure could more than double if the right approach is employed because the company enjoys teeming support from fans globally.

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Another avenue the company hopes to explore this year is its other products aside smartphones. The company has in its arsenal, a wide range of electronic gadgets like air purifiers, robot vacuums, smartTVs, washing machine, scooters, bikes, and several others which are manufactured by its ecosystem-partners. Mr Lei Jun did disclose that the company garnered over 15 billion yuan from such sales in 2016 and as such would continue with the partnership system. Xiaomi is an innovative company with lots of potentials, it is hoped the company can find its bearing this year and get back right on track soon.

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Xiaomi Phones Become Official Equipment for Chinese UN FPU Team

Frank Tu — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 08:44:22 +0000

Late last year, the second police riot team of the United Nations peacekeeping force was sent to Liberia. Having 110 Chinese citizens, the team returned safely to the Chinese mainland two days ago, on March 13. Successful on its own accord, the mission served as further proof of the power of Chinese smartphones, Xiaomi in particular.

A number of team members of the Chinese peacekeeping police force shared through the micro-blogging network Weibo their thoughts on the mission, as well as a few photos through their Xiaomi smartphones. “The Signal Strength was absolutely great,” members of the team stated, giving further proof that Xiaomi hardware is a force to be reckoned with.

According to officials, the mission in Liberia served a test area for the Xiaomi smartphones and following the successful testing, the mobile devices have now become standard equipment for the Liberia FPU team.

The war in the West African country Liberia has been progressing in the course of over ten years. The Chinese peacekeeping police force was invited as a part of the United Nations team to perform various helpful missions, including infrastructure work, repairs and transportation. While the country’s communications have been damaged by the war, thus resulting in a low signal strength, the Xiaomi Smartphones proved to be powerful enough to deliver a top notch performance even in the harsh area of Liberia.

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