Any Xiaomi Owners here? How are the phones?

[ReDDs3D]

Hi, I'm living in china at the moment and was thinking about getting a new phone. But by default, phones here are somewhat more expensive then they are in the US so I'm not sure yet whether I wanna dish out ~$700 just to get an S3...

Chinese brands are obviously much cheaper here and I have heard that brands like Huawei are really nice. But to be honest, I just don't trust them :T....

I was looking at the Xiaomi phones which are rapidly gaining popularity, and well, just the specs and the price of the phones got me extremely interested in them . On paper they seem to be extremely powerful, and here I can get the Xiaomi M1S for 1500

 

[mikedt]

I think I'd rather trust a Huawei to be more solid, robust and reliable than whatever this Xiaomi(Who?) phone is. Are Xiaomi even a manufacturer? - because on their website, there's t-shirts, baseball caps, soft toys and all sorts of things. More than likely they're only a distributor NOT a manufacturer for whatever cheap products they can sell...

...where's the tech support page?

BTW I'm in China as well and I bought a Lenovo, because I wanted a phone I could trust not to be flaky and not to go faulty within a few weeks. Very happy with it. I certainly didn't want to pay the stiff premium for another Samsung, because the Lenovo was replacing a broken Samsung.

 

[ReDDs3D]

I think I'd rather trust a Huawei to be more solid, robust and reliable than whatever this Xiaomi(Who?) phone is. Are Xiaomi even a manufacturer? - because on their website, there's t-shirts, baseball caps, soft toys and all sorts of things. More than likely they're only a distributor NOT a manufacturer for whatever cheap products they can sell...
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...where's the tech support page?

BTW I'm in China as well and I bought a Lenovo, because I wanted a phone I could trust not to be flaky and not to go faulty within a few weeks. Very happy with it. I certainly didn't want to pay the stiff premium for another Samsung, because the Lenovo was replacing a broken Samsung.

Oh really? 住在中国吗？
Well this is convenient then haha. I was talking about the http://www.xiaomi.com/index.php

Xiaomi M1s or the Xiaomi M2, they're really popular phones in china :O
I was thinking of getting one off taobao, or tmall.

But out of curiousity, what lenovo phone did you buy?

 

[mikedt]

Oh really? 住在中国吗？

是

Well this is convenient then haha. I was talking about the http://www.xiaomi.com/index.php

Xiaomi M1s or the Xiaomi M2, they're really popular phones in china :O
I was thinking of getting one off taobao, or tmall.

Fake Apple iPhones are popular in China as well.

I'm pretty sure that Xiaomi is only a distributor/wholesaler/retailer, of whatever products they can get hold of. Because of the prevalence of toys, apparel, fancy goods and other non-tech products on their site.

Are they reliable, what's the quality like? Can you get them replaced or repaired if they crap out on you? They seem like a very good spec for the money though.

But out of curiousity, what lenovo phone did you buy?

Lenovo P700i, bought from the main flagship China Mobile showroom here. It's not particularly high specced, better than the Galaxy S it replaced though. But it felt really solid and robust, and has a really great battery life. And it's dual-SIM, so that saves me having to carry two phones around when I travel.