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China's Top Phone Makers Huawei and Xiaomi In Talks With Carriers To Expand To US Market (bloomberg.com)
From a report: Huawei and Xiaomi are in talks with U.S. wireless operators about selling flagship smartphones to American consumers as soon as next year, according to people familiar with the matter. The handset makers are negotiating with carriers including AT&T and Verizon, said the people, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. Talks are still fluid and it's possible no agreements will materialize, they said.
AT&T has had Huawei phones for years now.
More cheap crap from inherently dishonest people, who will load up the phones with malware to spy on us and report back to Beijing. The US should ban the import of these phones.
At very affordable prices.
Xiaomi has made some awesome phones for the overseas markets. Would love to see them add support for T-mobile FDD LTE bands in addition to AT&T support.
Haven't there been dozens or reports/articles showing that the US cell phone market is about as saturated as it can get?
We have enough e-waste without all these damn cell phones lol. People are throwing them out as quickly as they're buying them.
Just my thoughts too. THe Kaspersky thing may happen again. Heck, the ongoing farce of "Russia collusion" may, bucking the proverbial trend, come back as a real tragedy next time — because Chinese, generally, have their excrement together much more than Russians these days.
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Apologies for not getting the significance of this
If China is planning to increase duty on foreign branded phones, surely the US should be doing the same for Chinese branded phones and for the same percentages? I don't believe in unfair market protections, so if the another country is applying duties, surely the same tariffs should be applied in the other direction?
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
xiaomi is a big player in the indian market and they are almost selling millions of units every month. But there customer care service is not good as there phone i dont know why but they should take a look in to there customer care number. I have read a post where its toll free number is given but it is not working. http://customeronlineinfo.in/x...
I have two thousand US dollars with your name written on it. Pretty please, can you release a serious flagship phone with a replaceable battery?
At the moment, you have no competition in this market space.
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My Brother-in-law bought a Huawei to use with AT&T. He loves it. I decided to get one for myself. However, using Verizon, I couldn't. The choice of phones for Verizon are now very limited. Hopefully this news changes that.
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When you can have Spy Phones!
Here, I'll help the US companies that are involved with these talks. No customer in the entirety of the US will buy a Chinese phone laced with tracking malware and spying features. Thanks anyway though.
I'e had 3 Huawei phones. Mate2, 8 and now the 9. Great phones, good value, excellent battery life, very stable OS. If you are into quick updates, look elsewhere...Huawei is slow about updates, but, I don't really care if it's stable. Never had a problem with them.
You see, the American consumers are really strange. They don't enjoy owning unlocked smartphones that are free of carrier bloat. They want a smartphone that's locked to one carrier, features carrier logo on the back and on the boot screen, and has dozens of carrier apps and services installed on the phones. Neither consumers like having phones with many radio bands. We want the phone to have the absolute minimum of radio bands to make it work with one carrier, so that the phone becomes crippled when you try to connect it to another carrier. We, Americans, unlike those Chinese consumers, have brand loyalty to those large telecoms.
I use T-Mobile because they are the best GSM provider in the US. Their travel policies are fantastic. I use an iPhone because I cannot and will not trust Google, an ad company. No Android for me. I'm waiting for a third or fourth VIABLE choice.
I had a Xiaomi Mi5 which was a great phone, at a very low price compared to the competition, with the only problem being that it would not work with T-mobile and I visit the US now and then, so it was annoying.
Enter the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 - their first device to support T-mobile LTE, and an amazing phone with a gorgeous 6" screen at a device size that is a little smaller than the 5.5" iPhone pluses. It is becoming very popular outside the US, in fact there is a fleet of copycat chinese manufacturers that are making "Mix 2" devices with small bezels (but slow Helios processors etc - nothing like the Xiaomi's top hardware).
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How is that so different from current market leaders Samsung or LG? Is S. Korea somehow that much more trustworthy?