Chinese electronics company Xiaomi sells a wide range of products including laptops, tablets, media streamers, wireless earbuds, and smart home gadgets. But the company first made a global name for itself with a line of smartphones featuring premium specs and design. Not everyone is in the market for a flagship phone though, so the company […]
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Lilbits: Xiaomi 12S Pro has a 1 inch image sensor, Ubuntu Touch comes to the JingPad A1
The JingPad A1 was positioned at launch as a tablet that would ship with a custom, tablet-friendly, Linux-based operating system that helped set it apart from Android tablets (with a user interface that looked distinctly iPad-ish). But its makers ran into some speed bumps resulting in layoffs and a fire sale. That doesn’t mean you […]
Xiaomi Mi Band 7 Pro blurs the lines between smartwatch and fitness tracker
The Xiaomi Mi Band line of activity trackers have a well-earned reputation for offering a lot of bang for the buck, especially when compared with pricier options like Fitbit products. But the new Xiaomi Mi Band 7 Pro is unusual in that it looks more like a smartwatch than a fitness tracker. With a 1.64 inch, […]
Xiaomi Book S is a 12.4 inch, 2-in-1 Windows tablet with Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2
As expected, Xiaomi has unveiled its first Windows tablet powered by an ARM processor. The Xiaomi Book S features a 12.35 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel LCD display and support for a detachable keyboard, and pressure-sensitive pen input. Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 chip, the tablet should offer similar performance to the […]
Black Shark 5 and Black Shark 5 Pro gaming phone go global for $549 and up
After launching in China earlier this year, the Black Shark 5 and Black Shark 5 Pro gaming smartphones are available worldwide with prices starting at $549 and $799, respectively. Both phones feature 6.67 inch AMOLED displays with 144 Hz refresh rates and 720 Hz touch sampling rates, LPDDR5 memory, UFS 3.1 storage, 4,650 mAh batteries, […]
Xiaomi Mi Box 4S Max is a 4K media streamer with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage
The new Xiaomi Mi Box 4S Max is a 4K media streaming device that looks a lot like other models the company has released in recent years, but the new model stands out thanks to beefier internals. While most companies are still shipping media streamers with up to 2GB of RAM and 8GB of built-in storage, […]
InkPalm Plus is a 5.84 inch eReader with a Rockchip RK3566 processor
The Xiaomi Moaan InkPalm Plus is an eBook reader that looks more like a smartphone thanks to its 5.84 inch display with a 2:1 aspect ratio and pocket-sized body. But with a frontlit E Ink display, this device is meant first and foremost for reading. It the second member of the InkPalm family and it’s […]
Xiaomi InkPalm 5.2″ eReader is available worldwide for around $110 and up
Xiaomi’s InkPalm 5 is a pocket-sized device with a 5.2 inch E Ink display and Android-based software. Basically it’s an eReader that’s small enough to fit in your pocket and versatile enough to use for more than just reading eBooks. When the InkPalm 5 launched last year, it was available exclusively in China for around […]
Xiaomi’s Black Shark 5 gaming phones come in three flavors
Black Shark is a subsidiary of Xiaomi that’s been selling gaming phones in the Chinese market and internationally for the past few years, and the company’s latest models come in three versions. The Black Shark 5, Black Shark 5 RS, and Black Shark Pro are set to go on sale in China April 2 with […]
Lilbits: MangoPi’s SD-card sized Linux PC, supersizing the iPhone 13 Pro Max, and Intel’s most powerful desktop chip
Chinese company MangoPi made a bit of splash earlier this year by introducing a pair of tiny computer boards powered by RISC-V processors. Now the company is showing off a new computer-on-a-module that’s smaller than an SD card, but which packs four ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores, supports Linux-based software, and can handle 1080p video playback […]