Last year in May, Xiaomi launched a new e-reader called Duokan Pro II in the Chinese market with an aim to compete with the popular Amazon Kindle. The device was introduced with a large E-ink display, up to 6 weeks of standby, and a quad-core chipset. Now after almost a year, Xiaomi’s Duokan Pro II E-reader can be purchased in the global market as well. Here are the details.

Interested shoppers can now buy Xiaomi’s latest e-reader—the Duokan Pro II— through e-commerce website Good e-Reader for $299.99. The price of the device is significantly higher than its cost in China, where Xiaomi sells it for 1,299 Yuan, which is equivalent to $188. However, when purchasing the device from Good e-Reader, it is important to note that there is an additional charge of $29.99 for shipping.

To recall, the reader tablet comes with a 7.8-inch flat E-ink display offering a resolution of 1872 x 1404 pixels. The panel has a 300 PPI screen density and a 24-level cold and warm two-color reading light. Design-wise, the e-book reader looks slim with a thickness of 7mm and weighs 250 grams. It gets an RK3566 quad-core chipset coupled with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage.

Xiaomi claimed the Duokan Pro II has a 109% higher system response speed. The device features a 3,200mAh battery that should offer up to 6 weeks of standby. There’s support for built-in voice search and the Baidu network, however, these features will be useless in the global market. It also comes with WLAN book transfer, Bluetooth book transfer, and PDF rearrangement support. The reader can run formats like EPUB, PDF, TXT, EXCEL, and PPT.

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Xiaomi always brings in something exciting to the news, and this time is the Kindle like an e-reader. The Chinese electronics maker has lots of different products varying from smart air filters to smartphones. From the past few months, many users were asking that how they can miss Kindle-like e-reader in their brochure. Today, Xiaomi Senior Product Director, Li Chuangqi positively replied to a similar query and responded regarding the development of e-reader, but did not confirm it.

Well, the answer can have different meanings, but it is conveying something positive about the e-readers. On the other hand, Mi Engineers on the forum said that Xiaomi completed a prototype of the device in the year 2017, but at that time the focus of the company was something else. The Chinese manufacturing company was focusing on smart home products at that time. Due to its small audience and less monetary profit and other benefits, Xiaomi didn’t pour in much efforts.

Now it is a good time to expand their reach to more business-oriented users. Xiaomi should rethink about the idea of Kindle-like an e-reader. Xiaomi should take an insight into the needs of the market and nurture their plans of expansion via different product catalogs.

Well, Xiaomi is one of the biggest company around the Globe which is creating every different kind of product with a smartness in it. They have created bulbs, shoes, air purifiers, lamps, toothbrushes and many never-ending lists of products. In the last couple of years, the company has strengthened its sale and marketing network around the world.

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Well, the latest insights from internal people have made it clear that Xiaomi has not entirely discarded the idea of developing e-readers, they are waiting for the right time. We expect, Xiaomi to rethink the concept and cater the users with a much-demanded e-reader.

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