This world seriously need made in China to bring down prices.

is it launching at 12am or 12pm?

this reminds me to sing michael bolton's song...How am i supposed to live without you....

Let me sing some:

I could hardly believe it when i heard the news today, xiaomi i coming get straight from you....

haha...im so poisoned...

Proud proud and proud. My fren worked ay digi and he asked me to help buy him 1 mi3. He is using s3 at the moment. Hehe. May buy new 1 and sell AP to him hehe.

After linking debit card with paypal, do we need to verify the debit card throught paypal right??

If do that, RM 10 will be transferred from your bank account to paypal account

1st page got. pls read there.

20k likes in fb doesnt mean those 20k ppl will ACTUALLY goan buy the phone on launch date. click LIKE is just one button away. even pariah kindergarden kids can do that. buying it? i doubt so. yea, i getting my hope way too high.

I am also trying to figure out how to use paypal. Used it before with credit card. But i think it was my old credit card, so i might need to add in a new credit card details. Will figure out later.

as i said still there will be ppl asking this and that about the launching and how to buy...
also paypal stuff... if we are here all experts we will be rich... haha...

For those question about XiaoMi isn't it easy to go to their FB and read...
For paypal question LYN do have a thread for it... y not ask there instead of here???

again editing cos of this...

for those really DUMB and LAZY PPL....
Lowyat PayPall Discussion Thread...
XiaoMi Facebook...
MIUI FORUM for BUYING GUIDE



BTW really ka all the likes is phantom??? hehe... yea you are raising my morale also... haha...
lets try lo... cannot get 1st batch get 2nd lo...
cannot get by end of June i go SG and buy lo... sent to my sis house...

This post has been edited by michael9413: May 16 2014, 12:40 PM

i will definitely place order on this 20th before i'm leaving to hongkong on 23th...might bring more from there

Due to brand power, if its some more well known international china brand such as lenovo or huawei, things might have been a little different. So I dont blame them on that as majority smart phone users aint tech savy.

Go out in the street and simply pick a few people and ask if they know what is snapdragon 800 or not. To majority users out there, 1st thing come to picking up a new phone is more towards selecting brand, which usually are those big boys such as samsung, sony and etc. The so call "Enthusiast" group is just a very small group when you compare to the majority of the "Normal" users.

Xiaomi aint actually giant, maybe giant only in mainland and currently only start expending to other asian countries. It has become success due to its low selling price in the past when compare to other brand, but couldnt coupe up with its stock availability due to its limited resources. Why is why big boys in china such like huawei, lenovo, zte saw the opportunity and start following xiaomi steps and came out with their online brand to compete with similar products at similar price range, which in the end benefit us consumers The best selling phones aint actually those expensive flagship, but mid to mid low range in sub rmb 2k and sub rmb 1k range. Why is why suddenly there so many choices for these segments since Q4 last year. You can now find an entry level 4g phone with snapdragon 400 1.2ghz, 2gb ram, 8gb rom, 13mp + 5mp camera combo, 2400 mAh battery at rrp rmb 999 only with android 4.3

Might be true, somehow I sense that Xiaomi brand wasn't that popular to the public. This is good news to those who're targeting the phone.

Yes, RM10 will be transfered to your paypal account.

Latest dev rom updates: MIUI ROM 4.5.16

Changelog Preview



Full changelog will be released by today.

http://en.miui.com/thread-21381-1-1.html



This post has been edited by kennethkee93: May 16 2014, 12:44 PM

This is why HTC and Sony still survive today and they also still so brave to charge high prices for it.

HTC and Sony only loses its market in developing nations such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, India etc

These brands are still pretty strong in Europe, USA, Australia, Middle East.

You ask an American or European to adopt a China made Xiaomi brand smartphone? They wont give you a damn unless Xiaomi really pumps in billions of dollars into marketing, I guess its difficult too to change the American and European's perception.

Xiaomi still have not targeting the countries you stated. Currently they only trying to set foot in Asia countries. Take note that there's no online or physical Xiaomi shops for the western and middle east countries yet which is unlike HTC, Sony, Samsung etc. So comparing Xiaomi at current state with other giant brand is not realistic.

I doubt so.
Even until today, tell me a single China brand other than smartphone that it well known and widely accepted in America, Europe or Middle East?

sony runs very well in india. micromax following close

I don't have a good answer for this, but Lenovo wasn't doing that bad in America.

Lenovo is good but it is not a home grown brand.
Lenovo was a subsidy of IBM previously and subsequently sold to China. Hence, Lenovo is considered a brand that is well known even before the take over.
Similar case for Motorola now.

Xiaomi probably will not venture in US market to avoid legal suit from Apple.
Another issue is Xiaomi has violated GPL, hence you can't find a specified forum in XDA.