NEW DELHI: Another Chinese smartphone maker, Xiaomi is all set to enter the Indian market.
Hugo Barra, the vice president of Xiaomi and formerly the vice president of product management for Android, told technology website CNET in an interview that the company is set to enter India with aggressively priced products. In fact, Barra Xiaomi plans to sell phones almost close to cost, said Barra.
However, despite the relatively low pricing, Xiaomi's phones in India will promise performance and quality, he added.
The company will only launch Android smartphones and has no plans to launch Ubuntu or Firefox OS smartphones, not just in India, but also in global markets. "We think we've made Android an even better operating system," claimed Barra.
Xiaomi, which will be the third known Chinese player after Gionee and Oppo, is working on forming relationships with telecom operators and partners in India. This does not include larger Chinese players like Lenovo, Huawei and ZTE, who have already been present in India.
Xiaomi is working on forming relationships with telecom operators and partners in India and is also setting up an e-commerce portal, where it will sell its smartphones to consumers directly. The success of Moto G has already shown that the online-only model can work in India.
The company is also readying a new office in the country.
Xiaomi has a unique business model - it makes a limited number of smartphones that are sold only on the internet. However, it has tasted success with this method. It sold 10,000 units of its Red Rice smartphone in 36 seconds in November 2013. It has also sold 2,00,000 smartphones in three minutes on last year's Singles Day, which is celebrated as China's answer to Valentine's Day.
Google India's head, Rajan Anandan tweeted about his meeting with Xiaomi executives and said that the India, which is the second-fastest growing smartphone market in the world after China, is set to change.
Xiaomi enters the Indian market soon after other Chinese manufacturers, such as Gionee and Oppo. Indian companies like Micromax and Karbonn also import smartphones from China.
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It will face hard competition from Indian makers.......
它將面臨來自印度生產商的殘酷競爭...
Thoshith (Tumkur)
Plz don't comment, if you don't know about xiaomi.. It has finest built n most beautiful flavor of android as MIUI.. I will b d first to buy on launch day!!
不了解小米，就別胡亂置評。小米手機最工最優良，安卓界面最漂亮。發布首日我會第壹個購買！
ifan (tasgaon)
Yes it is at it is Chinese. Made in China suckssss.
是的，這是中國貨，中國貨爛死了
Milind (Vasai)
Xiaomi not the low quality phone
小米可不是質量低劣的手機
Palanivel Marimuthu (Unknown)
DO NOT DUMP THE LOW QUALITY PHONE IN INDIA
請別把質量低劣的手機拿到印度傾銷。
prashant (blr)
one of the best phones i have seen... this is an iphone killer
小米是我見過的最好的手機之壹，是iphone的殺手。
jadauns (Chennai)
SAMSUNG BE CAREFULL, ALREADY U R LOSING TO GIONEE, MICROMAXX, KARBON..
三星要小心了，妳已經在輸給金立、MICROMAXX、KARBON...
RJSH Saha (Bangalore)
Chinese firms are entering one after the other but not sure if they are able to make a dent in the Indian Smartphone market....
中國公司壹個接壹個地進入印度，不確定他們是否有能力在印度智能機市場取得進展
awesomeness (abc)
I will buy it as soon as they launch their products! They make some awesome phone!!!!!
壹旦他們發布產品，我就會去買！他們造出了壹些很棒的手機！
Ramnarayan Natarajan (Tangerang, Banten - Indonesia)
Heard good comments and positive feedbacks from my friend who is so proudly boasting about his Gionee P2.
我朋友的評論就比較正面，他吹噓起他的金立P2手機時倍感自豪。
Saurabh (Unknown)
Competition is gonna increase among phone manufacturers
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手機生產商的競爭將加劇。
Subbu DVS (Hyderabad)
these are good phones but not trust worthy
手機好是好，但不值得信任
Bhavin Rana (vadodara)
Tough competition for Samsung and Nokia.
三星和諾基亞將面臨更激烈的競爭。
Ashish Maheshwari (Mumbai)
yeahh yupppii great news. we buy these chineese phones and boost chinees economy so that they can create weapon of mass destruction and attack us to take arunachal pradesh an gradually whole north india like they did earlier. currently there new daddy of pakistan.
Rounak Parekh (Bangalore)
Hopefully they will give something to cheer about. Market need someone to call the shots now so that the big cos. bring the prices to their real worth.
希望他們能帶來壹些讓消費者歡呼的產品。市場需要壹些人出來控制事態，大公司就會讓價格體現其真正價值。
Anand Kumar Sharma ()
Hoping for good quality phone like MI3 in reasonable price. Welcome Xiaomi to India. Competition is getting tougher.
