Xiaomi is a major Chinese consumer electronics company that manufactures smartphones, wearables, laptops, smart home devices, and more. We review and compare Xiaomi’s product lines like the flagship Mi Series phones, budget Redmi phones, Mi Band fitness trackers, Mi TVs, and other gadgets.
Our Xiaomi reviews and buying guides analyze the hardware, software, camera quality, battery life, and overall value proposition across various price points. We also cover company news and plans for global expansion beyond China and India where Xiaomi already sees significant success.
See how Xiaomi devices stack up to offerings from rivals like Samsung, Apple, Huawei, and more. Learn about MIUI, Xiaomi’s Android-based operating system and ecosystem of mobile apps and services as well.
As lust-worthy the Huawei P30 Pro or Galaxy S10 are, they are undeniably expensive and for some people wholly unnecessary and unaffordable. If you are someone that just wants needs a phone for its most basic functions, but would still like to take the occasional photo or use social media, then there is plenty of…
Qualcomm has a messy selection of mid-range chips, they launched the Snapdragon 670 towards the end of 2018, then three months later announced its follow up the Snapdragon 675. Read out Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 vs Snapdragon 710 comparison The new SD675 has a superior processor to the Snapdragon 710 which is supposed to sit higher…
The latest gaming phone from Xiaomi’s gaming sub-brand Black Shark is expected to launch imminently and the new device has popped up on the Geekbench benchmark database. So far the phone has popped up multiple times with the first appearance on Geekbench as “Blackshark Skywalker” with Snapdragon 855 chipset and 8GB of RAM. The new…
The two things everyone was talking about at MWC were foldable phones and 5G. The Huawei Mate X lived up to the hype then sadly ruined my dreams of ever affording one with its £2000 price tag, they wouldn’t even allow me to touch it. MWC this year had a large number of announcements for…
This is the first year Xiaomi is launching a device at MWC in less than a decade they have gone from launch to the 4th largest phone company in the world. During the event the speaker tried to show off some of their Smart home IoT devices but embarrassingly this failed with Google not responding…
The Xiaomi Mi 9 officially launches tomorrow and at this point there is little if anything not known about it. As part of the marketing campaign, Xiaomi has slowly been leaking information about the phone, keeping it in the tech headlines. The phone officially launches in China tomorrow, but the global announcement is expected at…
One of the more frustrating aspects of owning a smartphone is if and when it will be updated to the latest software. It is not unusual for some cheaper brands to launch devices with an old version of Android and then never update it. Even large companies such as Samsung can be slow to roll…
Xiaomi is in for a busy couple of weeks. They will be announcing their new Mi 9 flagship on 20th of February and then it will be launching another product launch on the 24th in Barcelona the day before MWC starts. There are reports it will showcase the Mi MIX 3 5G version at the event…
I have posted about the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 a lot, and it is one of my favourite phones of the past year, and it will continue to be a great phone this year. Xiaomi have been very proactive keeping it up to date introducing new features such as 960 fps video recording. It is comfortably…
The Samsung Galaxy M series has just been launched in India with featuring the latest budget focussed chipset from Samsung, the Exynos 7904. Xiaomi has been quickly gaining the market share in India and are now the most popular brand for smartphones, while the Samsung market share has remained stagnant. So, the new Galaxy M…
Xiaomi has become hugely popular in the past few years, many UK buyers importing their phones due to the low cost, excellent build quality and fantastic specs. With their domination in China, they have now expanded to the UK and European markets. The launch of Xiaomi UK was back in November and this coincided with…
2019 is going to be all about foldable phones but at the moment it is hard to imagine just what these will be like. The Royole FlexPai is an impressive demo but there is no way that the general public want to use it as a daily phone. Samsung gave a brief teaser with its…