Sunday, January 24, 2016

MiPad 2 In Cherry Pink

Not a joke. They made a special edition for the début sale. And they call it “cherry pink” on Weibo, not “rose gold.”

Same-day update: Meanwhile, no one at Xiaomi has updated the MiPad pageat their English site. At post time, the original NVIDIA Tegra K1 version is still there, by itself.

More exciting news will be coming soon: http://ahappydeal.info/

Windows 10 MiPad 2 Goes On Sale December 22?

That’s what Xiaomi Today is claiming: Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 will officially go on sale tomorrow: Here are all the details

64GB internal storage version: 1,299 Yuan or 200.48 USD

I will wait for the review at TECHTablets.

Meizu: 20 Million Sold in 2015

Weibo:

Weibo web link [use Chrome browser for translation]

Meanwhile, the scuttlebutt is that Xiaomi will miss Lei Jun’s ambitious goal of selling eighty million in 2015. The Chinese tech press estimates a shortfall of around sixteen million. Did Meizu account for that?

Stylepie LED Hard Warmer

This is … very weird.

An LED hand warmer!

I found it by accident on Weibo.

It’s from a company called Stylepie, which might need watching. They do very colorful and very rounded product designs.

But an LED hand warmer? Can such a beast work? How long could it last? As long as the 8-10 hours of a HotHands package?

Surprisingly, Amazon carries some Stylepie products. But not this one.

Same-day update after the break.

CUBE i6 Air With Remix OS User Report

Over at IMP3Net forum [Google Translate].

The camera is garbage:

Click = big

More exciting news will be coming soon: http://ahappydeal.info/

Elephone: Vanguard Of 2016 Chinese Android Phone Invasion?

Elephone M3 Pro will get Sony IMX230, Android 6 and US LTE

The big excitement for the M3 and M3 Pro though is that they will both offer native LTE support to customers in the U.S! Cheap Android phone are headed to America!

That is huge.

How long before some are picked up by Best Buy and branded Insignia phones?

How long before they show up at B&H Photo, kicking out better-known brand names that don’t sell much (hello, goodbye, Sony?)?

How will their low prices affect the high prices of current Android phones?

We’ve seen the Android tablet market destroyed by people flocking to price. Can the same thing happen with Android phones?

By this time next year, we could be looking at the ruins of the Android phone market.

MiPad 2 Gets First Review

Over at iFeng [Bing Translator; Chrome browser translate is best].

It provides additional evidence this wasn’t much of an attempt by Xiaomi, with the camera — as well as everything else, basically — not getting enough attention.