Xiaomi sells 220,000 smartphones in just three minutes

[mgsstar]

 

Xiaomi has done a flash sale for Single's Day. Just last month Xiaomi sold 100,000 of their MI3 smartphone in a minute and a half. This time around they had 380,000 devices in stock which consisted of 110,000 of each of their three different smartphones, the Mi3, the HongMI, the MI2s smartphones, and 50,000 set top boxes. In three minutes time Xiaomi sold over 200,000 smartphones, all of the MI3 and HongMI smartphones. Which made an immense RMB 107 million ($17.5 million) in just three minutes.

 

 

 

 

According to Xiaomi, "This makes it the first company on Tmall to break the RMB 100 million ($16.4 million) benchmark." Xiaomi also notes that "last year the company that passed this benchmark did so only in the afternoon, making the feat all the more astounding."

 

The company just recently hired Hugo Barra, Andoid's former Vice President of Product Management at Google. By the end of Xiaomi's Single's Day flash sale they had made RMB 300 million (~$49.2 million) which was just thirty minutes later.

Source: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/33832/xiaomi-sells-220-000-smartphones-in-just-three-minutes/index.html

 

It seems that these devices are really cheap and offer Android MIUI 4.2 and Tegra 4 which is pretty decent imo: 

http://www.xiaomi.com/mi3

English: http://www.xiaomi.com/en/mi3

 

HongMi:http://www.xiaomi.com/hongmi

 

This is cheaper than the Nexus 5 so maybe thats why they had that many phones sold.

[megadarkwood]

HONG MEEEE

[TheRuke]

BREAKING "BENCHMARKS" SINCE 2013

I hope 3D Mark is okay

[iruixos]

English page: http://www.xiaomi.com/en/mi3

[chromeboy42]

Why don't bigger companies do this? I mean they can afford it. And they'd get a ton of press. Just think of it...

"Breaking News! Samsung drops price of S4 to $20 on contract. Samsung's supply runs out in 4 minutes!"

[TopWargamer]

Huh, wasn't expecting them to sell so many...especially in such a small time period, mainly because they're not popular over here in the US, but hey, whatever. The Mi3 is a freaking awesome phone though.

[mgsstar]

BREAKING "BENCHMARKS" SINCE 2013

I hope 3D Mark is okay

 

Huh, wasn't expecting them to sell so many...especially in such a small time period, mainly because they're not popular over here in the US, but hey, whatever. The Mi3 is a freaking awesome phone though.

Yea it beats the 5S and the Note 3 octa which is pretty awesome for a low cost phone  http://community.futuremark.com/hardware/mobile

[TopWargamer]

Yea it beats the 5S and the Note 3 octa which is pretty awesome for a low cost phone  http://community.futuremark.com/hardware/mobile

Phew, it comes in at #16, and my phone comes in at #14. All is good.

[tboxy]

so can I use all my android apps on this?  because it says this 

"MIUI V5: Andriod redefined"

[mgsstar]

so can I use all my android apps on this?  because it says this 

"MIUI V5: Andriod redefined"

Probably. Its just a custom Android rom made by Xiaomi and it is based on 4.2 so it should support most if not all of your apps.