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> When would we likely see this in the states? Xiaomi has officially said they have no plans to enter US markets with their phones at least and considering thi

> When would we likely see this in the states? Xiaomi has officially said they have no plans to enter US markets with their phones at least and considering this "depends" on their phones for now I don't think any time soon, at least officially. Unofficially, of course, you'll be able to order it off AliExpress/eBay/etc in a few weeks after release and I'm sure someone will reverse engineer it a bit and produce a modified apk that can be used to control these things.

dogma1138 10y ago
The press release said that the Mi phone was used as the view finder, that's an Android phone no where in the article did it say that it would not be compatible with other Android phones in the least. I would really surprise me if Xiaomi would even attempt at locking this to it's phones only, it makes absolutely no sense for them that said since many Mi phones cost less than 150-200$ and most people i know that fly DJI's have a dedicated tablet for it, it still would be considerably cheaper than the DJI phantom if it could manage to come close to it performance wise. P.S. While I'm not an American Xiaomi does has a US store http://www.mi.com/en/ http://www.mi.com/en/
- ultramancool 10y ago
  They have an english site but nowhere on that site do they sell phones to the US. They may sell some other products (for example, their headphones, I know they offer warranty in the US on them at least, but I can't seem to find a store page on their site). They said "uses your Mi smartphone as its viewfinder". Hard to say for certain, but that line makes me think they're trying to lock it. Other manufacturers have done similar stupid things, so it wouldn't really surprise me.
  - dogma1138 10y ago
    http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/1/10885500/us-mobile-xiaomi-meizu-phone-import http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/1/10885500/us-mobile-xiaomi-m... Again I don't know much about the US market, but they do have FCC approval and it seems that they do have direct marketing sales in the US. The biggest problem I see is that their phones for the most part are EU/ASIA focused which means that LTE won't work on most US networks, and US only bands won't be supported either.

dogma1138 10y ago

The press release said that the Mi phone was used as the view finder, that's an Android phone no where in the article did it say that it would not be compatible with other Android phones in the least. I would really surprise me if Xiaomi would even attempt at locking this to it's phones only, it makes absolutely no sense for them that said since many Mi phones cost less than 150-200$ and most people i know that fly DJI's have a dedicated tablet for it, it still would be considerably cheaper than the DJI phantom if it could manage to come close to it performance wise. P.S. While I'm not an American Xiaomi does has a US store http://www.mi.com/en/ http://www.mi.com/en/

ultramancool 10y ago
They have an english site but nowhere on that site do they sell phones to the US. They may sell some other products (for example, their headphones, I know they offer warranty in the US on them at least, but I can't seem to find a store page on their site). They said "uses your Mi smartphone as its viewfinder". Hard to say for certain, but that line makes me think they're trying to lock it. Other manufacturers have done similar stupid things, so it wouldn't really surprise me.
- dogma1138 10y ago
  http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/1/10885500/us-mobile-xiaomi-meizu-phone-import http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/1/10885500/us-mobile-xiaomi-m... Again I don't know much about the US market, but they do have FCC approval and it seems that they do have direct marketing sales in the US. The biggest problem I see is that their phones for the most part are EU/ASIA focused which means that LTE won't work on most US networks, and US only bands won't be supported either.