If you thought that Xiaomi might have problems shifting their high-end and high-priced Xiaomi Mi Note then think again as the first rounds of sales has sold out in just 3 minutes.
Earlier today eager Xiaomi fans sat at their computers waiting to pre-order the latest Xiaomi flagship. At $370, the Mi Note costs slightly more than the base model Mi4, and many commenters believed Xiaomi might struggle to shift a comparatively expensive device.
However after only 3 minutes online Xiaomi closed the pre-order system claiming a staggering 220 million reservations for the phone had been made.
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Although plenty of those reservation will have been made by Xiaomi fans a great deal of them are likely to have been made by resellers hoping to get stock of the 5.7-inch Mi Note for international sale.
The Xiaomi Mi Note boasts a Snapdragon 801 processor, 2GB RAM and 13 mega-pixel camera with OIS. A more expensive Pro version will also be offered with 2K display and Snapdragon 810 at a later time.
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I am pretty sure it will have no problem selling in china, people who really want it there will fork out the money for it. However the international sales will probably be lower than expected (especially for on-line shops that sell phones out of China) since by the time you actually import one of these phones it will cost you the same as a flagship from a well known brand. And of course you will rather go with a Samsung or HTC phone if they cost the same as the Xiaomi phone.
On the contrary, I would rather go for XIAOMI than for SAMSUNG or HTC even if they were similar price. I think also many other customers who have once tried their phone…
As for 220 milion reservations think that is authors typo… 😉
I’ll go forma xiaomi even is expensive than samsung and doesn’t have a really warranty here in spain
i think 220 million is possible because there are 1.2 Billion people in china.So, i believe 220 Million still a possible number
220 million? That’s quite hard to believe
those “sell outs” are a bunch of crap as long as they dont provide numbers of items sold.
didnt they received a fine for that kind of practice before?
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/xiaomi-fined-claiming-sold-more-023018669.html
i bet 10 phones whould “sell out” in seconds. providing real numbers all hype would be gone
I dont believe this one bit.
Also the 1080p model has 3 gigs of ram not 2.
You are getting sloppy Andi now drop and give me 50.
Flash News…..220 million X $ 370 = $ 81 Billions….holy cow….Xiaomi becomes the First Trillion dollar Mobile manufacturer…!!!!
You think phones fall from the sky ? No manufacturing costs ? No marketing costs ?
Man that is called sarcasm. ..of course the giz China news is surely a joke..
220 million reservations not sales
stil it is very big number…
Always amazed at how well you support your local brands….
I really don’t understand why someone would want to buy this over the mi4? Unknown the wills of people…
How to get in India?I want mi note
No idea, I am not Indian xD
Yeah 220 million sounds like way too many. I’d guess it’s more like 220 thousand? Even then 220,000 is quite a few units.
no I think it is 22 million
Now that I think about it, it was probably 220万 which is 220×10,000 = 2,200,000 which is 2.2 million. In China they use the unit 万 which stands for 10,000.
I can read Chinese, and yes, you are correct.
I am pretty sure it will have no problem selling in china, people who really want it there will fork out the money for it. However the international sales will probably be lower than expected (especially for on-line shops that sell phones out of China) since by the time you actually import one of these phones it will cost you the same as a flagship from a well known brand. And of course you will rather go with a Samsung or HTC phone if they cost the same as the Xiaomi phone.
On the contrary, I would rather go for XIAOMI than for SAMSUNG or HTC even if they were similar price. I think also many other customers who have once tried their phone…
As for 220 milion reservations think that is authors typo… 😉
I’ll go forma xiaomi even is expensive than samsung and doesn’t have a really warranty here in spain
i think 220 million is possible because there are 1.2 Billion people in china.So, i believe 220 Million still a possible number
220 million? That’s quite hard to believe
those “sell outs” are a bunch of crap as long as they dont provide numbers of items sold.
didnt they received a fine for that kind of practice before?
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/xiaomi-fined-claiming-sold-more-023018669.html
i bet 10 phones whould “sell out” in seconds. providing real numbers all hype would be gone
I dont believe this one bit.
Also the 1080p model has 3 gigs of ram not 2.
You are getting sloppy Andi now drop and give me 50.
Flash News…..220 million X $ 370 = $ 81 Billions….holy cow….Xiaomi becomes the First Trillion dollar Mobile manufacturer…!!!!
You think phones fall from the sky ? No manufacturing costs ? No marketing costs ?
220 million reservations not sales
Man that is called sarcasm. ..of course the giz China news is surely a joke..
stil it is very big number…
Always amazed at how well you support your local brands….
I really don’t understand why someone would want to buy this over the mi4? Unknown the wills of people…
How to get in India?I want mi note
No idea, I am not Indian xD
Yeah 220 million sounds like way too many. I’d guess it’s more like 220 thousand? Even then 220,000 is quite a few units.
no I think it is 22 million
Now that I think about it, it was probably 220万 which is 220×10,000 = 2,200,000 which is 2.2 million. In China they use the unit 万 which stands for 10,000.
How to get minute in India?I don’t want iphn clone mi4 cz I hate USA,love for China is natural then!Hahaha
I am definitely going to buy the PRO version. I really don’t understand all the hate the NOTE series is receiving.
great specs, still a good price even though high for Xiaomi standards, 200$ under the Samsung, HTC price, seems a good deal to me
I have a feeling the number got lost in translation because in Chinese 2.2 million is “liang bai er shi wan” which literally translates as “two hundred twenty ten thousands” which probably got incorrectly translated as two hundred twenty million.
How to get minute in India?I don’t want iphn clone mi4 cz I hate USA,love for China is natural then!Hahaha
I am definitely going to buy the PRO version. I really don’t understand all the hate the NOTE series is receiving.
great specs, still a good price even though high for Xiaomi standards, 200$ under the Samsung, HTC price, seems a good deal to me
I have a feeling the number got lost in translation because in Chinese 2.2 million is “liang bai er shi wan” which literally translates as “two hundred twenty ten thousands” which probably got incorrectly translated as two hundred twenty million.