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China’s Xiaomi takes the wraps off the Redmi Note, a 5.5-inch version of its budget smartphone
Mar17
Popular Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has taken the wraps off its next upcoming product — the Redmi Note. Previously, signs pointed to a second generation of its budget Android smartphone, the Redmi (previously known as the Hongmi in China), being released in April. However, Xiaomi has now unveiled the device as the Redmi Note on its Sina Weibo official account – with pre-orders taking place on Wednesday in collaboration with Qzone, a social networking website operated by Tencent, while it will be officially launching on March 26. As per previous rumors, the Redmi Note has a 5.5-inch HD display and is powered by an MTK6592 octa-core…
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When Twitter filed for an IPO last year, one interesting point that came up was the subject of China, where Twitter.com and its services have been blocked by the government since 2009. After all, it said it expected to face challenges in entering some markets such as China, suggesting that Twitter could be considering doing so. Now Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is making his first visit to China (as first confirmed by Reuters) — a huge hint that the company could finally be taking steps to enter the market. Costolo is scheduled to land in Shanghai on Monday and will spend…
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Popular Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi hasn’t yet branched out into manufacturing tablets, but its MIUI firmware is coming to Google’s second-generation Nexus 7 tablet — though only for the WiFi version (via Engadget). Xiaomi’s highly-customizable MIUI firmware, which is based on Android, has been tweaked with a new interface design to better suit a tablet. The company says its engineers did a lot of new development and optimization to ensure the MIUI firmware is ideally re-adapted to a tablet, instead of just copying over MIUI as it is on smartphones. They applied a whole new design language to showcase content on the tablet,…
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