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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.
Apologies for not getting the significance of this
Because there's clear demand for them in the states. Hell, if you read enough ArsTech or Endgadget, you'll see a myriad of glowing reviews for Huawei/Xioami phones appended with "Not For Sale In US", with comment sections wishing the phones would come stateside.
The phone market is not as saturated as it seems, since there's not much in the way of a middle ground these days. On the one hand, there are a plethora of cheap devices (mostly just downgrade versions of flagships), on the other there are a bunch of high-end flagships like the Pixel/Galaxy/RazerPhone etc. Huawei/Xioami do a good job filling the middle space with devices that have relatively strong hardware at prices slightly above the low end that are both capable of running modern apps and remaining strong enough to last many years. So far, the only major Chinese phonemaker with a US presence is OnePlus, but they're shifting towards the flagship end of the market.
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?
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There is still no proof about whether Kaspersky is actually leaking anything to the Russian government. Of course the US federal government doesn't want to use their products, which makes total sense because it is too much of a risk, but nothing, to my knowledge, has been proven.
Same for Chinese. You may consider the risk of using a Chinese phone, but so far neither Huawei nor Xiaomi have been caught selling data to their government. Even when some data was leaked to servers in China, it was never clear there was a political intent (opposed to just plain incompetence from the Chinese developers).
This kind of leaks go hardly unnoticed. You can't easily plant them without getting caught and if you do, the risks would be big. The most successful so far have been Google and Amazon, since no one could know if the US agencies had access to all the requests done through Alexa/Google assistant.
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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The only thing we know for sure about Russia is that they came in and defeated ISIS, while we were talking about how cool moderate rebels were and making Oscar Propaganda about White Hats.
From a consumer point of view, the US cell phone market is virtually vacant rather than "saturated." Yes, there's a lot of crap (both cheap and expensive) available, but if you're not into crap, you're probably having to buy some semi-obscure brands, possibly imported. The companies who used to make phones that people liked (e.g. Samsung, Apple), don't even try anymore, having completely gone to cost-reduced designs that:
It takes a lot of researching and shopping-fu to get a phone that isn't crap. I'd call that the opposite of "saturated." If anybody comes in and tries to take consumers' money by making decent phones, they'll find customers.
You'll know when the US market is really saturated, by the return of Apple and Samsung. Both of them are easily able to make decent hardware, they just don't bother right now, because there's still so little competition. I think a little competitive pressure will do wonders for both of their products.
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 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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Sadly the reality is most people in the world trust the Russian government and the Government of China more than the US government, which has factually proven over and over and over again it absolutely can not be trusted. Quite simply have something they want and you wont sell it to them at a sharp discount they will kill you for it, whether that you is one person or a million people. Who gives a fuck who the US government trusts, no one, absolutely no one, not even US citizens, should trust it, corrupt as fuck.
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