February 27 in Barcelona starts annual international exhibition Mobile World Congress (MWC 2017) mobile electronics. The leading electronics manufacturers, including LG , Samsung, Sony , Huawei's , LeEco , HMD (brand the Nokia ) and TCL (brand BlackBerry ). But the Chinese company Xiaomi will miss the upcoming exhibition, what GizmoChina reported, with reference to the representative of Xiaomi.
Xiaomi spokesman said that this year the company will not be present at the MWC show in Barcelona. This decision came as a complete surprise to everyone, and what exactly it is connected, is not specified. Earlier it was expected that at the MWC 2017 the company will present its new flagship Xiaomi of Mi6 .
According to one version, Xiaomi has refused to participate in the MWC 2017 in connection with the departure of vice-president Hugo Barra . As it became known yesterday, Hugo Barra takes the post of vice-president of the social network Facebook and will manage projects in the field of virtual reality. But it is possible that the reason lies on the delay of supply of processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, which will form the basis of Xiaomi Mi6.
By the way, recently Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said that the company grew too fast and now after the rapid growth came the transition period. In the past year, according to IHS, Xiaomi has put all 58 million smartphones, taking fourth place among Chinese manufacturers after Huawei, Oppo and Vivo. So, Huawei smartphones in 2016 have sold 139 million copies, Oppo smartphone - the 95 millionth edition. Vivo during the reporting period has sold 82 million smartphones.