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I hope they come up with a name that's easy to pronounce if they do. I also doubt they will do well in the rest of the world for the same reason Huawei aren't
by blueskin_ 12y ago
I hope they come up with a name that's easy to pronounce if they do.
I also doubt they will do well in the rest of the world for the same reason Huawei aren't - lack of trustability.
- vvvv 12y agoBased on my circle, Huawei is not insignificant and getting traction. Cheap and reliable is a good way to start.
- pjc50 12y agoI have a Huawei Ascend P1 LTE. It's certainly cheap. I wouldn't describe it as reliable; it was very prone to locking up if you disabled and later re-enabled the wifi. They released an OTA firmware update which mostly fixed this, but now the screen is starting to blister in a few places.
- 1stop 12y agoHuawei are after business contracts. Xiaomi (Show (as in shower) me) are after consumer market. I think they will have better success
- icebraining 12y agoXiaomi (Show (as in shower) me) That's how Hugo Barra described it, but listening to the pronunciation of "Xiao", it doesn't sound exactly right - you lose the sound of the 'i'. Happily, reading it as a Portuguese word sounds exactly like the Chinese seem to pronounce it.
- 1stop 12y agoDepends on which part of china. Xi is typicial a Si (like italian) mixed with a soft sh (like shoosh). Northerners emphasis the "sh" more southerners emphasis the "Si". I believe the 'correct' should be somewhere in between.
- rahimnathwani 12y agoThey own the domain mi.com, so perhaps just 'Mi'? That's easy to pronounce.
- GFischer 12y agoI don't understand, how can that be a problem in Latin America or Africa? Chinese phones, electronics and cars do very well in my country (China displaced the U.S. as our main trade partner some time ago). Plus the U.S. isn't exactly "trustable" over here (Japanese and Korean brand might be).