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Water and Dust protection will be coming more budget-friendly

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The battle in smartphone industries has become fiercer than ever, along with the rapid growth of mobile tech, the competition nowadays is no longer just in hardware specs and price, but has enter the area of features. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">One of the most wanted feature in a smartphone is protection from water and dust, unfortunately this feature is still considerred premium, thus only can be found in SOME, yes you read it right, only some, not all, highend flagship smartphones. The good news is, in the near future, starting from 2015, this ocean-n-sahara proof feature will be coming to lower-mid-end smartphones (sub $300), with sony leading to open the path, and expectedly, will be followed by Samsung, HTC, Motorola and Lenovo, (Xiaomi??? </span><img alt="" border="0" smilieid="172" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/smiley/miface/m015.gif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><img alt="" border="0" smilieid="125" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/smiley/comcom/4.gif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">). </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Smartphones (and maybe tablets) with this feature, have IP (international/ingress protection) code, which consist of two digit numbers, to better understand it, please take a glimpse to the following </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Code" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">tables</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #252525; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">The first digit indicates protection from solid particle.</span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #252525; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><table cellspacing="0" class="t_table" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); color: #444444; empty-cells: show; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; table-layout: auto; width: 705px; word-wrap: break-word;"><tbody style="word-wrap: break-word;"><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Level</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Object size protected against</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Effective against</span></div></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No protection against contact and ingress of objects</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">>50 mm</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any large surface of the body, such as the back of a hand, but no protection against deliberate contact with a body part</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">>12.5 mm</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fingers or similar objects</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">>2.5 mm</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tools, thick wires, etc.</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">>1 mm</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most wires, screws, etc.</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dust protected</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ingress of dust is not entirely prevented, but it must not enter in sufficient quantity to interfere with the satisfactory operation of the equipment; complete protection against contact (dust proof)</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dust tight</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No ingress of dust; complete protection against contact (dust tight)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The second digit indicates protection from liquid, WATER to be precise. PLEASE DONT SUBMERGE IT IN OTHER TYPE OF LIQUIDS!!! </span><img alt="" border="0" smilieid="233" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/smiley/mitu/wuhohoho.gif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br /><table cellspacing="0" class="t_table" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); color: #444444; empty-cells: show; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; table-layout: auto; width: 705px; word-wrap: break-word;"><tbody style="word-wrap: break-word;"><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Level</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Protected against</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Testing for</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Details</span></div></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not protected</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dripping water</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dripping water (vertically falling drops) shall have no harmful effect.</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Test duration: 10 minutes</span><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water equivalent to 1 mm rainfall per minute</span></div></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dripping water when tilted up to 15°</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vertically dripping water shall have no harmful effect when the enclosure is tilted at an angle up to 15° from its normal position.</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Test duration: 10 minutes</span><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water equivalent to 3 mm rainfall per minute</span></div></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spraying water</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water falling as a spray at any angle up to 60° from the vertical shall have no harmful effect.</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Test duration: 5 minutes</span><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water volume: 0.7 litres per minute<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Pressure: 80–100 kPa</span></div></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Splashing of water</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water splashing against the enclosure from any direction shall have no harmful effect.</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Test duration: 5 minutes</span><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water volume: 10 litres per minute<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Pressure: 80–100 kPa</span></div></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water jets</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water projected by a nozzle (6.3 mm) against enclosure from any direction shall have no harmful effects.</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Test duration: at least 15 minutes</span><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water volume: 12.5 litres per minute<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Pressure: 30 kPa at distance of 3 m</span></div></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Powerful water jets</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water projected in powerful jets (12.5 mm nozzle) against the enclosure from any direction shall have no harmful effects.</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Test duration: at least 3 minutes</span><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water volume: 100 litres per minute<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Pressure: 100 kPa at distance of 3 m</span></div></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6K</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Powerful water jets with increased pressure</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water projected in powerful jets (12.5 mm nozzle) against the enclosure from any direction, under elevated pressure, shall have no harmful effects.</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Test duration: at least 3 minutes</span><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water volume: 75 litres per minute<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Pressure: 1000 kPa at distance of 3 m</span></div></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Immersion up to 1 m</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ingress of water in harmful quantity shall not be possible when the enclosure is immersed in water under defined conditions of pressure and time (up to 1 m of submersion).</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Test duration: 30 minutes</span><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Immersion at depth of at most 1 m measured at bottom of device, and at least 15 cm measured at top of device</span></div></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Immersion beyond 1 m</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The equipment is suitable for continuous immersion in water under conditions which shall be specified by the manufacturer. Normally, this will mean that the equipment is <span style="color: #0b0080; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_seal" style="color: #336699; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">hermetically sealed</a></span>. However, with certain types of equipment, it can mean that water can enter but only in such a manner that it produces no harmful effects.</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Test duration: continuous immersion in water</span><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Depth specified by manufacturer, generally up to 3 m</span></div></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9k</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Powerful high temperature water jets</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Protected against close-range high pressure, high temperature spray downs.</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The biq question is, can a smartphone with dust and water protection has a removable battery??? Take a deep breath, try to relax, aaaaannd......</span><img alt="" border="0" smilieid="44" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/smiley/grapeman/04.gif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">...........the answer is YES!!! </span><img alt="" border="0" smilieid="47" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/smiley/grapeman/07.gif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><img alt="" border="0" smilieid="224" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/smiley/mitu/haokaixin.gif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">FYI samsung galaxy s5 which has ip67 certification, als o has a removable battery!</span><img alt="" border="0" smilieid="232" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/smiley/mitu/enheng.gif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><img alt="" border="0" smilieid="112" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/smiley/comcom/16.gif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">So for those on a budget, get ready and be happy, your dream feature is coming. Is it really your dream feature? if you are given an option, which of the features that you really, really love to have in your smartphones (or tablets)? please articipate in the poll or leave a comment.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sony-to-launch-sub-300-waterproof-smartphones-next-year-HTC-Motorola-and-others-might-join-the-fun_id55966" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">source</a></span></div>

Water and Dust protection will be coming more budget-friendly

The battle in smartphone industries has become fiercer than ever, along with the rapid growth of mobile tech, the competition nowadays is no...

"Xiaomi want to be part of everything that Google does" - Hugo Barra

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><img border="0" height="410" src="https://www-techinasia.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/IMG_2198.jpg" width="640" /><br /><br /><br />Hugo Barra from Xiaomi joins us on stage this afternoon at Startup Asia Jakarta 2014 to talk about Xiaomi and its progress in Indonesia.<br /><br />He says Xiaomi was “clearly world-standard” when he was considering making the move away from Google’s Android team last year, and he'd been following its progress even before that because of early links between Google and Xiaomi's founders.<br /><br />“We want to be part of everything that Google does – we want to be early adopters,” says Barra to interviewer Jeremy Wagstaff from Thompson Reuters.<br /><br /><br />Before discussing Indonesia, the chat turns toward India. Barra says “the community has really embraced us” in India, and the brand now has a number of fans – “Mi Fans” – in the country. Yesterday they had an informal, ad hoc meetup that nearly 70 people came to in a restaurant in Mumbai. He adds that Xiaomi is seeing the same kind of reception in Indonesia.<br /><br /><br />Xiaomi's global VP says the brand gets a lot of feedback from users of Xiaomi phones and the MIUI OS in new markets. He adds that they listen too. Even if they get an angry or upset email, he says the user is often pleased and surprised to get a human response straight from Xiaomi. It's seeing “higher emotion volume than even in China" among fans in India and Indonesia, he states.<br /><br />Fans from India & Indonesia are “Open, Transparent, and Sincere,” Hugo says.<br /><br />Offline flash sales<br /><br />Barra said that Xiaomi will do offline sales soon in India – sort of. The plan is to do what he calls offline flash sales (mirroring its online sales system) in India for the Redmi 4G. That will be done in partnership with Airtel. Look out for that early next month.<br /><br /><br />There will be more offline sales in Indonesia, such as the store-based sales done by local partner Erajaya. He reveals Xiaomi once sold 2,000 phones in one day in offline sales in just two stores.<br /><br /><br />Fewer than five percent of phones sold in Indonesia are sold online, he states, so there are challenges to being focused on ecommerce. “Perhaps we can be a driver” of ecommerce, he says.<br /><br />He went on to explain that Xiaomi wants to work very closely with the tech ecosystems in India and Indonesia in terms of startups, apps, and services. There are no deals sorted out yet, but he will talk a lot with startups to cook up something. An example from China is the way Xiaomi created the MiBand in partnership with a Chinese startup.<br /><br />“It makes perfect sense to build in Indonesia,” he says – but that's advice for hardware startups, not a statement related to Xiaomi.<br /><br />“I have high hopes for manufacturing in Indonesia,” Barra says<br /><br />Barra advises local startups to get a Raspberry Pi and start iterating hardware in the same way they do with software.<br />Privacy kerfuffle<br /><br />“We can't serve everything from China,” he says, due to issues like high latency and time-outs. That's why Xiaomi opened a data center in Singapore and the US, and might do the same for India.<br /><br />If "one of the indirect benefits of this move" is that non-China customers feel safer about privacy (avoiding the grasp of China's government), then that's a bonus, he explains. That's a reference to the fears over Xiaomi's online messaging service sending back data to China, which prompted the company to make the service an optional feature for people outside China.<br /><br />Source: <a href="https://www.techinasia.com/hugo-barra-xiaomi-indonesia-india/">techinasia</a></span></div>

"Xiaomi want to be part of everything that Google does" - Hugo Barra

Hugo Barra from Xiaomi joins us on stage this afternoon at Startup Asia Jakarta 2014 to talk about Xiaomi and its progress in Indonesia. He ...

Xiaomi acquisitions seems its competting to google and not with Apple

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;">Xiaomi’s acquisitions are in the spotlight, after the company borrowed US$1 billion from financial institutions, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/xiaomis-1-billion-loan-draws-29-banks-1414568541" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">reports</a> the <em>Wall Street Journa</em>l, and, according to the <em><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2995254e-662c-11e4-a454-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3IdsKKt7o" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">Financial Times</a></em>, is raising US$1.5 billion in a new round of funding. Money has never been a problem for Xiaomi. In June 2012 the company announced US$216 million of funding, at a valuation of US$4 billion, and would announce another round in August 2013 that valued it at US$10 billion.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;">Xiaomi, its subsidiary investment companies and Xiaomi CEO himself have invested or acquired a variety of Chinese tech companies, from <a href="http://technode.com/2014/09/19/xiaomi-invests-us25m-andons-ihealth-20-stake/" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">smart gadget makers </a>to pre-IPO companies, along the way. And recently the company flexed its credit card and began another shopping spree.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;"><strong>Design Studio</strong></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;">Xiaomi has acquired <a href="http://www.rigodesign.com/home/" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">RIGO Design</a>, the designer of many Xiaomi hardware products and the built-in custom Android system, a source close to the matter told TechNode. <a href="http://shunwei.com/en/about.html" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">Shunwei</a>, the venture capital fund founded by Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun, is the angel investor of RIGO Design which was founded in 2009 by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=36996606&authType=OUT_OF_NETWORK&authToken=Jh21&locale=en_US&srchid=590903291415590991949&srchindex=3&srchtotal=736&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A590903291415590991949%2CVSRPtargetId%3A36996606%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">Robin Zhu</a>, a former UX manager at Microsoft.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;"><a href="http://technode.com/2014/03/20/xiaomi-showcases-budget-phablet-red-mi-note-for-130-dollars/" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">Red Mi phone</a>, <a href="http://technode.com/2013/09/05/xiaomi-smarttv-is-launched/" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">Xiaomi Smart TV</a>, and the latest two versions of <a href="http://technode.com/2014/06/20/xiaomi-software-integrated-whole-lot-third-party-services-users-engaged-ecosystem/" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">MIUI system</a> are designed by the design studio, according to multiple reports by local media.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;"><a href="http://technode.com/2014/07/22/xiaomi-launches-fourth-flagship-phone-fitness-band/" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">Xiaomi’s latest flagship phone</a>, tablet, promotional materials and CEO’s presentation have been accused of being Apple copycats. If local media are right that RIGO only designed Red Mi for Xiaomi, one outcome of the acquisition may well be that the next Xiaomi flagship phone won’t resemble the iPhone 6.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;"><strong>Mobile Phone Chips</strong></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;"><a href="http://www.leadcoretech.com/" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">Leadcore Technology</a>, a Shanghai-based system-on-chip solution provider, has established a joint venture with Beijing Pine Cone Electronics (our translation), according to a statement by Leadcore’s parent company <a href="http://en.datanggroup.cn/" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">Datang Group</a>. Beijing Pine Cone, it transpires, is an affiliate of Xiaomi, for two members of the management of the joint venture are Xiaomi employees, as reported by Sina Tech (<a href="http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2014-11-07/00309767824.shtml" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">report in Chinese</a>).</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-SCDMA" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">TD-SCDMA</a> chips are the specialty of Leadcore Technology, as its parent company <a href="http://en.datanggroup.cn/" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">Datang Group</a> is the creator and core IPR holder of the 3G standard which is primarily China-only. Datang also developed TD-LTE, the evolution of TD-SCDMA that has been incorporated into the 4G international standard by ITU-T, according to the company.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;">The telecom giant China Mobile is the only adopter of TD in China. That’s the major reason why China Mobile began to sell iPhones much later than China Unicom and China Telecom, who adopted international 3G standards. Xiaomi, of course, doesn’t want to miss out on the huge number of China Mobile subscribers.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;"><strong>Mapping</strong></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;"><a href="http://www.careland.com.cn/" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">Careland</a>, a Chinese mapping company, <a href="http://www.careland.com.cn/Frontend/Information/InfoContent.php?ids=2408&iid=0" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">announced</a> yesterday that Tianjin Jinxing Investment (our translation), <a href="http://wiki.xiaomi.cn/%E5%A4%A9%E6%B4%A5%E9%87%91%E6%98%9F%E6%8A%95%E8%B5%84%E6%9C%89%E9%99%90%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8#.E5.87.BA.E8.B5.84.E5.8E.86.E5.8F.B2.E4.BF.A1.E6.81.AF" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">a subsidiary company of Xiaomi</a>, and Jinxing’s wholly owned subsidiary had bought RMB84 million (about US$14mn) worth of shares in the company.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;">Maps and location-based services have become increasingly important to almost every internet company. AutoNavi and NavInfo, the two largest mapping companies in China, has been<a href="http://technode.com/2014/02/10/alibaba-to-fully-acquire-mapping-service-autonavi/" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">acquired by Alibaba Group</a> and <a href="http://technode.com/2014/05/05/tencent-bought-11-28-stake-mapping-company-navinfo/" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">invested in by Tencent</a>, respectively.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;"><strong>Video Content</strong></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;">Xiaomi <a href="http://technode.com/2014/11/04/xiaomi-to-invest-us1b-in-digital-content-has-poached-chiese-media-guru-chen-tong-for-it/" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">has just hired Chen Tong</a>, former editor-in-chief of Sina news portal, to oversee online videos and other digital content shown on its hardware products, saying a billion dollars or more will be spent on content. Rumor has it yesterday that Xiaomi will invest in two leading Chinese video streaming services, Youku-Tudou, and iQiyi, the online video service of Baidu, as reported by an contributor at a local media platform Huxiu (<a href="http://www.huxiu.com/article/101086/1.html" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none !important;">source in Chinese</a>).</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 21px;">(<a href="http://technode.com/2014/11/10/xiaomi-shopping-for-acquisitions/">http://technode.com</a>)</div></div>

Xiaomi acquisitions seems its competting to google and not with Apple

Xiaomi’s acquisitions are in the spotlight, after the company borrowed US$1 billion from financial institutions, reports the Wall Street ...

Low-cost $100 Xiaomi MI tablet shows up on TENAA with LTE

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="xiaomi tablet leaked" class="attachment-large wp-post-image" height="415" src="http://i2.wp.com/www.gizchina.com/wp-content/uploads/images/xiaomi-tablet-leaked-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024" style="height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="640" /></div><br /><div class="fsb-clear" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Having previously been spotted on GFXBench, a mystery Xiaomi tablet has now appeared for network approval featuring LTE support.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 15px 15px 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Xiaomi device codenamed 2,014,811 has received approval to go on sale in China and according to government database details will be able to connect to GSM, WCDMA, TD-LTE and FDD-LTE networks. That makes this new tablet a little more desirable than the current Mi Pad which supports only WIFI.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Previous leaks showed the mystery tablet will have a 9.2-inch 720p display, Snapdragon 410 processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB internal memory, and dual cameras. Taking these specifications in to account and from previous Xiaomi product launches we can expect this mid-range tablet to costa as little as 599 Yuan ($100).</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="xiaomi tablet1 Low cost $100 Xiaomi tablet shows up on TENAA with LTE" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-74353" height="178" src="http://i2.wp.com/www.gizchina.com/wp-content/uploads/images/xiaomi-tablet1.jpg?resize=600%2C178" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" title="Low cost $100 Xiaomi tablet shows up on TENAA with LTE" width="600" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Receiving the go ahead to go on sale at this time of year would mean that Xiaomi could release their new device in time for the Chinese Spring Festival early next year and take advantage of the holiday shopping period.</div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">[<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_570455092"> </a></span><a href="http://www.gizchina.com/2014/11/24/low-cost-100-xiaomi-tablet-shows-tenaa-lte/">gizchina.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> ]</span></div>

Low-cost $100 Xiaomi MI tablet shows up on TENAA with LTE

Having previously been spotted on GFXBench, a mystery Xiaomi tablet has now appeared for network approval featuring LTE support. Xiaomi devi...

Xiaomi Plans Manufacturing Smartphones in India and Brazil in

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Xiaomi Mi4" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-190507" height="460" src="http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Xiaomi-Mi411.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 2.4rem; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="700" /></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xiaomi’s CEO mentioned a few days back that the company will be able to become the top smartphone vendor in five to ten years, dethroning Samsung and Apple from the top two positions. However, in order to do that, the company has to expand in more markets, and produce enough smartphones to meet the demand.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to a new report, Xiaomi may start producing handset in Brazil and India in the next few years. The company had immense success in India, and has been shipping almost 200,000 smartphones a week through charter planes.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="more-190502" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This also means that the Chinese OEM may have to put its expansion plans on hold for some time. The company planned to enter 10 new markets this year, but it seems they will only stick with five for now. This means Brazil, Russia, Thailand, Mexico and Turkey will have to wait for some time before they can get their hands on Xiaomi handsets.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This also makes sense since the company sell budget-friendly devices, and importing them to a country like Brazil means they have to incur high import duties and taxes which will also increase the prices. As per the report from Bloomberg, the company aims to start producing handsets in India in the next two years, and Brazil may start a little earlier.</span></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 4rem 4rem 2.4rem;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The strategy for Xiaomi is to produce its smartphones in some of the bigger countries where it wants to grow. The company is already in talks with electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group, said Hugo Barra, vice president in charge of global operations, in an interview. Production in India will likely begin in one to two years, and Brazil may start sooner", he said.</span></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-24/bottlenecks-slow-xiaomi-s-pursuit-of-samsung-apple-in-smartphone-race.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Bloomberg</a>, <a href="http://www.phonearena.com/news/Xiaomi-plans-to-start-producing-smartphones-in-India-and-Brazil-to-meet-huge-demand_id63314" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Phonearena</a></span></div></div>

Xiaomi Plans Manufacturing Smartphones in India and Brazil in

Xiaomi’s CEO mentioned a few days back that the company will be able to become the top smartphone vendor in five to ten years, dethroning Sa...

MiUi Vs CyanogenMod Vs Stock Android:

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEj5LoOIdfWMyczVc2Y_4cfZmXHmZ2O-kPHBn9qHgr2MmGRfpgPs7cdZ99kEjXZouHAAWF99yGAS1FexfDIwY7plSKweleE3ZQti31KsFyrb2lhWgRJtdITNT0UO8FDLRsqnHX0qBaFiVjQ=" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="clear: right; color: #444444; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span></a><br /><div class="article-image" id="firstimage" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 17.5517559051514px; margin: 0px 0px 25.34375px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEj5LoOIdfWMyczVc2Y_4cfZmXHmZ2O-kPHBn9qHgr2MmGRfpgPs7cdZ99kEjXZouHAAWF99yGAS1FexfDIwY7plSKweleE3ZQti31KsFyrb2lhWgRJtdITNT0UO8FDLRsqnHX0qBaFiVjQ=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEj5LoOIdfWMyczVc2Y_4cfZmXHmZ2O-kPHBn9qHgr2MmGRfpgPs7cdZ99kEjXZouHAAWF99yGAS1FexfDIwY7plSKweleE3ZQti31KsFyrb2lhWgRJtdITNT0UO8FDLRsqnHX0qBaFiVjQ=" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are planning to get a new Android phone or something geekier to flash a custom Android ROM on your phone, here we share some useful insights into which of these three flavours, among stock Android, CyanogenMod and MiUi, will suit you the best.<br /><br />Most of the Android Phones we buy these days ship with some customizations on top of the core Android system. Different brands customize look and feel as well as features on their Android phones based on the regions/ countries where these phones are sold. Over the years, big players have made some of these skins fairly popular like the TouchWiz from Samsung and Sense UI from HTC. But there is a parallel community based ecosystem of Android flavours, which exists by the people and for the people rather than the ones developed by brands.<br /><br />Two most popular flavours are CyanogenMod and MiUi which can be used on almost any phone brand and has support for custom ROMs. It is similar to installing any OS on a PC.<br /><br />These community developed flavours or skins of Android variants are much more capable and user-oriented. And interesting part about these flavours is that they are free to use, more like an open source community project. However, they have parallel business models like selling premium themes and customizations to support the developers and those who are committed to these projects. Some of these UIs are so popular that some brands ship their phones with these software pre-installed, like the OnePlus ships with CyanogenMod and recently, Indian mobile phone giant Micromax also announced their parallel brand Yu, which will sell phones with CyanogenMod pre-installed. MiUi on the other hand was developed by Xiaomi, thus all phones sold by Xiaomi are loaded with MiUi. However, just like any other community UI, MiUi can also be installed on on-Xiaomi phones as well.<br /><br />If you a contemplating to buy a new Android phone or flashing an existing phone with one of these ROMs or UIs, we will help you make an informed decision and help to pick one among these three- stock Android (not-customized pure Android by Google), MiUi and CyanogenMod.<br /><br /> </span><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Who Should Pick Stock Android And Why?</b><br /><br />If you are a user who is very concerned about data security, phone's stability and doesn't bother too much about doing really complex tweaks to your phone, you should pick stock Android. Stock Android is tested by Google's Android team rigorously before release and comes with stable, smooth, well-tested and secure software with minimal chances of your phone becoming unstable. It gives you simple, easy and smoother user experience, but at the same time, the level of customization in terms of themes and skins is close to nil which is deliberately done to prevent any external piece of software breaching into the security and stability of the stock Android system. It is highly smooth, comes with almost all default Android's Google services, and is fairly easy to use with much less options to play with.<br /><b><br /> </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Who Should Pick MiUi And Why?</b><br /><br />MiUi, on the other hand, is a very different eco-system, which comes with fairly user friendly features. But contrary to stock Android, the development cycles of MiUi are much more frequent, probably fastest among the three UIs we are discussing. With such fast development cycles, these UIs are always prone to some bugs and vulnerabilities. Also with fast changing codes and features, things change at a great pace and you need to keep yourself abreast with these improvements to make the best use of it.<br /><br />So, if you are someone who is not bothered much by some level of instability, and doesn't keep top-secret information on your phone (as it may be affected with security vulnerabilities more often than competing UIs), MiUi is the ROM to go with. It is rich in features and we have played with it on some of the Xiaomi devices. It is a very intuitive UI, but as I mentioned earlier, there are some trade-offs which you have to live with.<br /><b><br /> </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Who Should Pick CyanogenMod And Why?</b><br /><br />CyanogenMod is among the most capable and most power-packed UI among these three as it gives user more privileges and flexibility compared to the other two UIs. Also the options of tweaking with settings and capabilities, and advanced configurations of the phone are much more doable on the CyanogenMod compared to other two UIs. But with the strengths, there are also some weak points which include: a steeper learning curve and un-noticed features of the CyanogenMod, which many users would never know of.<br /><br />CyanogenMod is not as intuitive and simple as MiUi, which have more user-friendly interactions with the users on visual and functional level. It best suits the users who are power-users and thrive to do more advanced changes and customizations to their phones. It is more stable compared to the MiUi and offers much more advanced controls.<br /><br />Summing it up, I would say, go for stock Android for performance, stability and simplicity; go for MiUi for user-friendly features and intuitiveness; and go for CyanogenMod if you want to control every aspect of your phone and want more controls with high stability. Hope it helps you make up your mind. If you still have some doubts, feel free to discuss with us in the comments section below.<br /><br />Source:- <a href="http://www.gizmodo.in/indiamodo/MiUi-Vs-CyanogenMod-Vs-Stock-Android-Which-One-To-Pick-And-Why/articleshow/45297890.cms">gizmodo,in</a></span></div></div></div><br /><br /><br />

MiUi Vs CyanogenMod Vs Stock Android:

If you are planning to get a new Android phone or something geekier to flash a custom Android ROM on your phone, here we share some useful i...

Xiaomi has officially announced the number. Up to 50,000 units of the Redmi Note going to be on sale on Flipkart on 2- Dec

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img src="http://st1.bgr.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/redmi-note-flipkart.jpg" /> <br /><br /><br />In the first flash sale of the Redmi Note on December 2 on Flipkart. Now, Xiaomi has officially announced the number. Up to 50,000 units of the Redmi Note are indeed going to be on sale for registered users at 2:00PM on Tuesday. Notably, this is 10,000 units more than the Redmi 1S first flash sale, where only 40,000 units were made available on Flipkart. <br /><br />Xiaomi reiterates that only registered members will be allowed to participate in the sale and only one device will be sold per user. Flipkart suggests registered members to be online at least two hours prior to the sale to up their chances to grab the device.<br /><br /><br />Flipkart has also announced an exclusive offer for its Flipkart First customers. The first five thousand Flipkart First subscribers who register for the sale will get the Redmi Note added to their cart automatically and they can purchase the Redmi Note on December 1 at 6:00PM, one day prior to the flash sale. This is similar to what Flipkart did when it launched the Redmi 1S in India. However, many customers complained that the device was not added to their cart on the promised date by Flipkart.<br /><br />To recap on the specifications, the Redmi Note flaunts a 5.5-inch HD (1280×720 pixels) IPS display with a pixel density of 267ppi, and Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It is powered by a 1.7GHz Mediatek MT6592 octa-core processor paired with 2GB of RAM.<br /><br />The phablet features a 13-megapixel rear camera, a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, 8GB internal storage and 3,100mAh battery. Connectivity options include dual-SIM card slots, 3G support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and on the software front it runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean wrapped under MIUI version 5.</span></div>

Xiaomi has officially announced the number. Up to 50,000 units of the Redmi Note going to be on sale on Flipkart on 2- Dec

In the first flash sale of the Redmi Note on December 2 on Flipkart. Now, Xiaomi has officially announced the number. Up to 50,000 units of...