Official Chinese company Xiaomi appearance on the American market are waiting for a long time. Soon Xiaomi officially begin selling its smartphones in North America, primarily in the United States.
According to the vice-president of the Chinese company's Hugo Barra, Xiaomi can no longer ignore the biggest market in generated revenues volume.
Recall that in June Xiaomi announced the acquisition from Microsoft about 1,500 patents for mobile technology. This should protect the Chinese company from litigation with competitors in the sphere of intellectual property outside of China.
Vice-President of Xiaomi said that the Chinese company the exact release schedule on the US smartphone market there. Now it sells in the United States over the Internet devices such as headphones and fitness trackers. According to Hugo Barra, online retail is for Xiaomi most preferred and effective channel retail sales.
And our colleagues from NextPowerUp meanwhile reported that in October, Xiaomi is going to launch in the United States some of their new products, including a device on Android TV and game controller Mi Game Controller.
Note that currently the largest overseas market for Xiaomi is India. Growth in sales of Xiaomi smartphones in the country through the Internet happy company. Success in India and in other countries is very important for the Xiaomi, given that it is losing its share in the local Chinese market under the pressure of competition in the face of Huawei, Oppo and Vivo. According to analysts IDC, in the second quarter, Xiaomi has put China's 10.5 million smartphones, up 38% compared to the same period last year. But Hugo Barra called the inaccurate data, noting that only in June Xiaomi shipped nearly 7 million smartphones.