In the third quarter of 2022, the Chinese smartphone market shipped approximately 71.13 million units, down 11.9% year-on-year, according to data from IDC.
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Xiaomi is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing, China. Its founder and CEO is Lei Jun. It started designing and selling flagship smartphone Mi and it has expanded into a wider range of consumer electronics.
Xiaomi, founded on 6 April 2010 by Lei Jun, focused their resources on online and mobile channels forgoing expensive retail outlets and sells mobile phones directly to consumers in China. It offers batches of 200,000 to 300,000 phones at a time, and they often sell out in minutes, which is a common marketing tactic employed by Xiaomi.
Xiaomi is good at social e-commerce marketing on Weibo, WeChat, Baidu Tieba, QQ, and other online forums. When it was just founded, their staff spent a lot of time on forums, making comments, and posting. And they also searched for senior users in forums and picked out 100 out of 1000 to join their operating system design and feedback.
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China smart device market overview 2022
Smart Home is the largest smart device segment in China with over 185 million monthly active users, followed by Wearable, Smart Automobile, Smart Accessories, and Smart Health. Huawei Sports is the top smart device app with over 69.07 million MAU, followed by Xiaomi’s Mijia app (86 million MAU). Huawei has the largest smart device share […]
Xiaomi revenue up 34% while profit increased by 70% in 2021
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Top 50 most valuable Chinese brands 2021
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China 618 Shopping Festival 2021: Tmall vs. JD
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More than half Chinese consumers used smart home devices during COVID-19
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Xiaomi in Q1 2020; overseas market accounts for half of total revenues
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Xiaomi highlights in 2019; MIUI MAU up 28% to 310M in 2019
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China’s wearable device shipment up 37.1% in 2019, led by Xiaomi and Huawei
The wearable device shipment grew by over 25% to 27.61 million units in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to data from IDC. Xiaomi has over 24% market share in Q4 2019, followed by Huawei (21.5%) and Apple (17.8%). BKK Electronics and Qihoo 360 have a market share of 4.6% and 2.9% respectively. The basic […]