Xiaomi Smartphones
About Xiaomi Brand
Xiaomi Corporation (小米), registered in Asia as Xiaomi Inc., is a Chinese multinational electronics company founded in April 2010 and headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in various fields, not only electronics. Xiaomi is also the fourth company globally after Apple, Samsung and Huawei to have self-developed mobile system-on-chip (SoC) capabilities.
Xiaomi released its first Xiaomi Mi 1 smartphone in August 2011. The device had their proprietary MIUI firmware along with Android installation. After that, the company rapidly gained market share in China to become the country's largest smartphone company in 2014. At the start of the second quarter of 2018, Xiaomi was the world's fourth-largest smartphone manufacturer, leading in both the largest market, China, and the second-largest market, India.
In 2014, Xiaomi announced its expansion outside China, with their first international headquarters in Singapore. On 21 February 2014, Xiaomi's Redmi and Mi 3 phones were released. The Xiaomi Mi 3 batches were sold out within 2 minutes of the opening day sale in Singapore.
In February 2020, Xiaomi launched the Mi 10 5G and Mi 10 Pro 5G. In August 2020, for the 10th anniversary of the company Xiaomi launched Mi 10 Ultra and Redmi K30 Ultra. In October 2020, Xiaomi surpassed Apple as the third largest smartphone maker in the world by shipment volume, shipping 46.2 million handsets in Q3 2020. In December 2020, Xiaomi launched its next flagship phone, the Mi 11. On 25 February 2021, Xiaomi unveiled the Redmi K40 Pro+ with 108 MP camera and Snapdragon 888 chipset, along with the K40 Pro and K40.