A new report has just revealed that Xiaomi became the world’s number 1 smartphone brand for the first time ever in the month of June 2021. The company beat the likes of Samsung and Apple in terms of handset sales volume.

According to a Counterpoint Research report, the Chinese tech giant lead the global smartphone market in June. The report added that the company’s sales grew by a sizeable 26 percent month on month, which also made it the fastest growing brand for the month. Meanwhile, the company arrived second in the smartphone market for the overall second quarter of this year, with the South Korean tech giant Samsung in the lead.

Research Director Tarun Pathak added that “Ever since the decline of Huawei commenced, Xiaomi has been making consistent and aggressive efforts to fill the gap created by this decline. The OEM has been expanding in Huawei’s and HONOR’s legacy markets like China, Europe, Middle East and Africa. In June, Xiaomi was further helped by China, Europe and India’s recovery and Samsung’s decline due to supply constraints.”

Similarly, another senior analyst also added that China’s market also grew by 16 percent month on month in June 2021. This growth was primarily driven by the 618 festival, with Xiaomi being the fastest growing brand in this period. Furthermore, Samsung’s production was disrupted in June, which also led to the company’s devices facing shortages across various channels.

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With Black Friday just around the corner, all the brands are gearing up for huge sales by offering massive discounts on their products. Xiaomi, too, has participated in this festive sale and is has put up to 57% off on various smartphones on Gearbest. And as an added bonus, the website is also offering an additional $5 discount on products above $60 through PayPal payments. This might prove to be the right time to upgrade your existing devices, after all.

To make things easier, we have narrowed down the best smartphone deals offered by Xiaomi.

Xiaomi POCO X3

Xiaomi POCO X3 is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 732G based on Kyro 470 Octa-core CPU with Adreno 618 Elite GPUs offering a 120Hz refresh rate. Its 6.67-inch DotDisplay offers an immersive experience while LiquidCool technology 1.0 Plus enhances its performance. Other features include a 5160mAh battery with 33W fast charging, 64MP AI quad-camera, blue light protection, dual stereo speakers, gaming turbo 3.0, and much more.

Xiaomi POCO X3 is currently being sold at a discount of 57%, which brings its price down to just $209.

Xiaomi Redmi 9A

Xiaomi Redmi 9A features a 6.53-inch HD+ DotDrop multi-touch display with a 1600 x 720p resolution. It is powered by a MediaTek Helio G25 processor octa-core chip. Furthermore, 9A boasts a 13MP AI rear camera and 5MP selfie camera that helps click decent pictures and unlock the phone with AI face recognition. Its 5000mAh battery can last throughout the day in just a single charge.

Xiaomi Redmi 9A is up with upto 51% off, reducing its price to just $88.99.

Xiaomi Redmi 9C

Xiaomi Redmi 9C has an immersive 6.53-inch HD+ Dot Drop display with 1600 x 720p resolution and 269 ​​PPI. It is powered by an octa-core Media Tek Helio G35 processor having a PowerVR8320 GPU. With a 5000mAh battery, Redmi 9C offers all-day operation on a single charge. Features like fingerprint sensor, facial recognition, Gyroscope, proximity sensor further add to the user convenience.

Xiaomi Redmi 9C is currently being sold with a huge discount that brings its price down to just $109.

Black Friday sale is the best time to save huge bucks while giving your device an upgrade. So bank on the opportunity as these deals by Xiaomi on Gearbest are up only for a limited time; hurry and get a smartphone upgrade now.

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Xiaomi recently revealed its financial report for the second quarter of 2020. In this period, the company saw a revenue of 7.77 billion US Dollars, which is a rise of 3.1 percent during the same period last year.

The revenue from Q2 is also higher than Q1 by about 7.7 percent for the Chinese tech giant. In other words, the company is seeing a recovery in its overseas market, according to a TechCrunch report. Xiaomi’s recently appointed CFO, Alain Lam, stated that the company’s profits stood at 650 million US Dollars, which is up by 129.8 percent year on year and 108 percent in comparison to Q1 2020.

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Xiaomi’s smartphone sales still account for the majority of the company’s revenue and have recovered in most of its overseas markets. This excludes one of its largest market India, where Xiaomi had to shut down most of its stores and production sites as the local government enforced a nationwide lockdown across the country. The measures to combat the Coronavirus pandemic started in late March, which affected the delivery and sales of “non-essential” goods in the region.

Since then, the lockdown has eased considerably, with production and sales ramping up. Compared to January 2020, the daily average of smartphone activations was around 72 percent as of July. In other words, the lockdown had adversely affected the company’s operations and sales. According to Xiaomi’s official statement, local production was the cause “as the production capacity had not yet returned to the normal level, our sales were still limited by the production constraints.”

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Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has announced that it will be giving away rewards worth 150 million Yuan (approximately $22.7 million) during the upcoming shopping festival.

The announcement comes at a time when the company is very close to achieving its yearly target. The company had earlier said that it aims to ship 90 million smartphone units this year. By the end of October, Xiaomi has already managed to ship over 70 million handsets worth 100 billion Yuan.

During the upcoming shopping festival, which will take place between 19th December and 26th December, Xiaomi will be giving away 1 million coupons worth 100 Yuan and 1 million coupons worth 50 Yuan. The coupons can be sued to purchase products from the company’s online store.

Along with the cash coupons, the China-based company will also be giving away smartphone accessories such as cables to those who could not get the coupons. According to the company, a user will be able to save up to 2,200 Yuan during the sale.

While announcing such offers, Xiaomi’s founder and CEO Lei Jun said on his official Sina Weibo account that the company wanted to offer an “unpredictable” way to express gratitude to its supporters as the company reported a good performance this year.

The company, which was once touted as the world’s most valuable startup, stumbled in terms of smartphone shipments last year given the cut-throat competition in its home market as well as in India — which is the second largest market for Xiaomi.

However, the company managed to turn the tides and has been registering good growth this year. One of the major reason behind that is the change in the company’s strategy. It has now started focusing on the offline channel along with the online sales channel. Xiaomi is now planning to establish over 1,000 Mi Stores in different Chinese cities by the year 2020.

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Also, the company solved issues related to the production capacity. Thus, the sales of its smartphones have increased given that there are enough units available to purchase during each flash sale.

Xiaomi was recently ranked as the leading smartphone vendor in India, along with Samsung. According to IDC, both the companies have managed to grab 23.5 percent of Indian smartphone market. IDC currently ranks Xiaomi as the fourth largest smartphone vendor in China, shipping 15.7 million units in the third quarter with a market share of 13.7 percent.

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Vice President and Managing Director at Xiaomi India, Manu Kumar Jain, said on Twitter that Xiaomi has shipped 10M+ units globally in the month of October. He also added that this is the second consecutive month to have crossed the 10 million sales mark.

While the company has not revealed any sales figures for specific regions, multiple reports suggest that one of the reasons behind such numbers is the Indian market, which has reportedly accounted for 30 percent of the total devices.

This is mainly because of the festive season sales taking place on Amazon India as well as India’s homegrown Flipkart. As per the reports, Xiaomi sold more than four million smartphones during the festive season in India.

Xiaomi is aiming to ship 90 million smartphones by the end of this year, as revealed by the company’s founder and CEO Lei Jun. With two more months to go in the year, there is a possibility that the company may achieve the target.

In order to achieve its yearly target, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer needs to ship 30 million smartphones in the fourth quarter. With 10 million shipments in October, it now needs to ship 20 million units in the next two months.

According to the estimates by Counterpoint Research, Xiaomi holds a 22 percent market share in India — the world’s second-largest smartphone market.

To date, the strongest year for Xiaomi in terms of shipments has been 2015, when it shipped 70 million devices. However, for that year, the company’s target was to ship 80 million devices.

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In order to stay ahead of competitors, Xiaomi took a series of strategic steps, including increasing production capacity and focusing on advanced technologies. It is now putting more efforts on research and development of better devices.

Besides online flash sales, the company has now started focusing on establishing its presence in the offline space as well in order to drive higher sales. Recently, the company launched 20 new Mi Stores in China, reaching its goal of opening over 200 Mi Stores in China this year.

Xiaomi has embarked upon a similar offline expansion plan in India too and has plans for setting up over 100 Mi Stores in India in the next two years.

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In the second quarter of this year, the company had managed to ship 23.16 million phones. During the same quarter last year, it shipped only 13.3 million units, representing just 3.9% market share.

For the company to meet its target of 90 million devices this year, it will have to ship 30 million smartphones in the fourth quarter. In the month of September, Xiaomi shipped a record 10 million devices. Considering this, it is possible for the company to ship 30 million devices in three months.

Another reason that makes it possible for the company to reach its target is that the smartphones launched by Xiaomi this year, such as Mi 6, Redmi Note 4, Xiaomi Mi A1 and the Mi MIX 2 have been well received in the market.

Xiaomi’s strongest year to date, in terms of shipments, has been 2015, when it shipped 70 million devices. However, for that year, the company’s target was to ship 80 million devices.

Earlier, Lei Jin had said that Xiaomi aims to ship out 100 million smartphones in 2018. He also said that the company has been working towards that goal since quite some time.

There was a time when Xiaomi, which is currently amongst the world’s top 5 smartphone companies, once saw its smartphone shipments dip 40% year over year. To catch up with the competition, it took a series of strategic steps, which included increasing production capacity and focusing on advanced technologies.

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Besides online flash sales, the company has now started focusing on establishing its presence in the offline space as well. Recently, the company launched 20 new Mi Stores in China, reaching its goal of opening over 200 Mi Stores in China this year. The tech giant has revealed that it plans to open 1,000 physical stores in different Chinese cities by the year 2020.

Not only in China, the new strategy seems to be working for Xiaomi in other regions as well. Xiaomi has now emerged as India’s second largest smartphone brand with a 15.5% of market share, second to Samsung’s 24%.

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Back on 2011 Lei Jun as the Xiaomi CEO has make his statement on that his company will be entering to compete in smartphone market and ready to sell 5000 – 6000 unit of smartphone on 2014, and now he also open his statement to sell 100 million unti of Xiaomi smartphone on 2015.

With those target, Xiaomi is trying to get their revenue for hundren billion yuan, and it’s mean the Xiaomi will got double revenue this year  and next will continue to maintain the momentum.

“This year there is the opportunity to do 80 billion, I think 70 billion is quite sure. Using the same mode of growth, it should be visible over 100 billion next year.” Lei Jun said so on the IT Leadership Summit in China, on March 30th.

Xiaomi announced today it upped this year’s sales projection to 60 million smartphones from the previous 40 million. It’s already sold 11 million in the first quarter of this year.

Four years ago, Xiaomi is becoming the entrepreneurial company, before the launch of its first mobile phone on late 2011, and now Xiaomi has sucessfully sales of 18.7 million units of its mobile phone and reached 31.6 billion yuan. Do the comparison, the world’s second-largest smartphone maker Apple iPhone 2013 global sales of 153.5 million, these objectives can be achieved that Xiaomi is becoming the top fifth biggest smartphone vendor for global market.

Xiaomi phone is primarily cooperate to doing direct sales and network marketing with China Telecom, China Unicom and other mobile operators. Xiaomi recently began to experiment with different social platforms to expand its sales channels, such as Sina Weibo, Tencent QQ and Alibaba’s Lynx.

The report also said that Samsung and Apple occupies a leading position in China’s smart phone market, but Xiaomi has undoubtedly become the dark horse of Chinese mobile phone market, the capital market is also giving this manufacturers becoming the valuable company.

In August last year, Xiaomi has reached $ 10 billion, it’s beat the BlackBerry smartphone in global market.

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