Why Xiaomi Telephones Are Not Bought In The US

In what may be one other shock, the U.S. would not maintain the largest slice of the world’s market share both. That honor belongs to China. So it is smart that the third-biggest smartphone maker on this planet is a Chinese language firm named Xiaomi.

Xiaomi makes every thing from electrical scooters, watches, and earbuds to set-top containers, shavers, and vacuum cleaners. Its Android-based smartphones are a few of the finest values available on the market, with distinctive construct high quality (to not point out cameras) that go toe to toe with the heavyweights. It sells them in over 50 nations, however america has by no means been one among them.

Effectively, that is not totally true. On February 1, 2016, US Cell fairly unexpectedly began promoting just a few completely different Xiaomi (and Meizu) mannequin telephones in america. US Cell was — and possibly nonetheless is to the overwhelming majority of customers — a comparatively unknown pay as you go mobile phone service that makes use of T-Cell’s community.

Lower than twenty-four hours later, gross sales have been forcibly stopped when T-Cell introduced Xiaomi’s telephones wanted to undergo extra “certification procedures.” On the similar time, Xiaomi acknowledged that US Cell wasn’t even approved to promote its telephones within the first place. Not solely that, however that they had no plans for “approved distributors within the U.S.” to promote their telephones sooner or later. To paraphrase one soup-controlling vendor, “No telephones for you!”