Xiaomi Mi3 TD (Tegra 4)

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

The device launched today, quite amazing mobile machine. Mi3 WCDMA (Snapdragon 800) to be expected in Q1 2014.

Currently they are making record sales in China, 100 000 mi3's sold out in 86 seconds back in the October pre-order.

These sales show huge potential and they opened up to the USA market only via the Chinese portal on the Xiaomi website.

The latest MIUI on the Xiaomi also allows the Google Play Store without any hacks, only need to enable it, should be interesting should this open up the Kindle Fire to the Google Play Store...

Seems this will be a Nexus 5 vs Mi3 tournament in other world parts. Would love to see this device available to SA, especially MiTV (http://www.xiaomi.com/en/mitv).
 
i think I might wait for the ubuntu mobile schtick. i'm not crazy about the java obsession that google insists on. though I'm glad somebody's trying to make their own distribution since most hardware vendors just sticks to the stock release (read shortcomings). the most deviation most users have is cyanogenmod and that is technically just vanilla android.

and java just lowers the bar for app quality and is an all-round drain on mobile efficiency and battery life. and should be banned from public after the age of 18.
 
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Pooky said:
It uses MIUI which is a customised Android made by the same company. I love MIUI!

It's been criticised though for them not releasing their dev stuff I think.
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The MIUI development team is pretty much open, but they themselves only support the Flagships and other “chosen Androids” which sells. You can independently develop MIUI on other smartphones in method by porting with support by the MIUI development team.

MIUI is also the OS we see on the Kindle Fire, although also customised.

Now that MIUI is allowing easy access to the Google Play Store, it might take wind in other parts than China.

I run MIUI (early version 5) on my old Sony X10i on an extremely modded kernel, works great.
 
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