Xiaomi sold at least 68,000 Pocophone F1 units in less than five minutes
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- Anonymous
- IW@
- 30 Aug 2018
This phone will be a runaway hit. It simply has no competition in terms of price:performance+features ratio in the flagship range. Xiaomi probably produced this phone with barely a profit or even possibly zero profit.
- Geric.770
- uSQ
- 30 Aug 2018
AnonD-771260, 30 Aug 2018Chinese companies have good pricing but you can't expect go... moreWelp, my experience from having a Samsung Galaxy S3 before has a huge difference on Huawei.
Samsung: Decent midrange phones, mediocre performance SoCs, bad pricing but compensates the great customer service.
Huawei: Excellent pricing on low end and midrange phones, decent SoCs, but has one of the worst customer service.
IDK but I have a feeling of switching and buying another Samsung midrange phone...
Ugh, I'll just buy a Nokia 150 instead XD
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- Anonymous
- 6jq
- 30 Aug 2018
AnonD-771260, 30 Aug 2018Chinese companies have good pricing but you can't expect go... more*Excellent service.
Wherever xiaomi has presence has an excellent service. And it already has presence to much of the world (much of Europe, Middle East, Latin America lately)
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- AnonD-771260
- Ixv
- 30 Aug 2018
Geric.770, 30 Aug 2018Agreed. I already checked up my phone on their customer s... moreChinese companies have good pricing but you can't expect good service from them.
- Geric.770
- uSQ
- 30 Aug 2018
Imperator Neubaticus, 30 Aug 2018There's not much to expect from huawei anyway. Agreed.
I already checked up my phone on their customer service, and they'll always tell me to buy another one cause they can't repair!
So much hate for their employees by the way. :(
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- theultimateuser
- LC8
- 30 Aug 2018
I like it.
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- rizki1
- u7V
- 30 Aug 2018
Can you make an SD 845 phone with other specs below the average? So this will get cheaper. See why it's sold so much? Because people see SD 845.
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- Bewildered
- 3Jn
- 30 Aug 2018
pl2rts, 30 Aug 2018 There is 62 countries. Cities like you say are like for ex... morehttps://www.gsmarena.com/pocophone_f1_a_list_of_all_countries_where_it_will_be_available-news-32962.php
You probably didn't read this earlier articles
For each of the 62 COUNTRIES, there normally just ONE city i.e one central distribution point that would receive the phone and delivered, there isn't a need to set up multiple location, that is the basis of my post.
My point is Xiaomi have a track record of these sales and people are dispensing with premium build and looking to internals and having a Snapdragon 845 same as Pixel, OnePlus, S9, Note 9, etc for what cost less than half the price of a Pixel and a third of the price of the next iPhone
Xiaomi may or may not increase the number of (COUNTRIES) cities from the 62 from the list,
4 million for 1st run, but as Xiaomi do the second flash sale will be more than 68,000
The one thing Xiaomi gets wrong is making these flash sales last, 5 minute remember when you were little and mom said chew your food!
I don't know, but I hope this phenomenal success because it shows that there is no reason for a say this pocofone premium build for under $500
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- AnonD-771260
- Ixv
- 30 Aug 2018
LG Superfan, 29 Aug 2018This phone can make Xiaomi worlds biggest smartphone compan... moreThat's how new Chinese names coming into the market. Killing with prices and pushing out competitors. No one can compete with Chinese brands :)
This is good deal for sure. I would recommend because next model will cost significantly more, but this will be good for next 2-3 years.
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- leledumbo
- xhm
- 30 Aug 2018
Geric.770, 29 Aug 2018Xiaomi is great on budget prices as always, but IDK if they... moreThey've promised to gain only 5% profit from all hardware sales. But they never anything tell about software services, despite mostly in China only. Still, that 5% seems enough for them to stay alive.
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- Imperator Neubaticus
- 7Xk
- 30 Aug 2018
Geric.770, 30 Aug 2018Agreed. Just gonna replace my current phone though because... moreThere's not much to expect from huawei anyway.
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- Anonymous
- ibp
- 30 Aug 2018
fingerprint sensor too close to the len like.samsung phone., too bad
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- bakzh0
- KLR
- 30 Aug 2018
zillion, 30 Aug 201868.000 pocophone sold out in 5 minutes only? Is that number... morenope, you cannot buy this phone in Indonesia yet. It will be sold at 11am local time today.
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- zillion
- U}}
- 30 Aug 2018
68.000 pocophone sold out in 5 minutes only? Is that number included in Indonesia?
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- ZolaIII
- S9u
- 30 Aug 2018
The kernel is already up. Probably a new record & they promised a much broader support to (costume ROM) developers. In the times when this is becoming rarely (Google, Huawei) guess what this will make a hot cooky to meet a fortune teller.
- Geric.770
- uSQ
- 30 Aug 2018
Fulljack, 30 Aug 2018you could always use custom rom. nothing's gonna stop you.Oh yeah.
Welp, time to replace my current phone.
- Xypleth
- mi}
- 30 Aug 2018
LG Superfan, 29 Aug 2018This phone can make Xiaomi worlds biggest smartphone compan... moreI believe they cut the profit corners, as they usually do, I've read that they make as little as 2$ for a phone sale. I'm not sure that I can believe that, but It's believable.
And I've read that they have Chinese government support.
They aim to be the No. 1 In the World, and at that point probably they could choose any price they want, or even keep the low prices and make the profit, simply because of the huge scale.
- Geric.770
- uSQ
- 30 Aug 2018
pl2rts, 30 Aug 2018It's not a second speaker. It's the same speaker you make c... moreAgreed.
Just gonna replace my current phone though because it is already showing its flaws on slowing the system due to 4 straight security updates, and because of that the battery decreased its life and everything else destroyed my expectations of this Huawei phone. :(
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- pl2rts
- nb6
- 30 Aug 2018
Bewildered , 30 Aug 2018Start up cost initial outlay etc but I would be guessing ab... more There is 62 countries. Cities like you say are like for example Los Angeles that is just one city in one state that have hundreds or thousands of cities in them. 4 Countries in America and so on. If you get the number by cities then it's a lot lower then the number of people in countries.
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- pl2rts
- nb6
- 30 Aug 2018
Geric.770, 30 Aug 2018At least it has secondary speaker.
I saw reviews everywhe... moreIt's not a second speaker. It's the same speaker you make calls with. You can basically turn what ever phone to stereo speaker if you have proper program to set the ear speaker to a loud speaker. While the sound thats coming out of there isnt as good as the sound that coming out of the bottom of the phone.
I like this phone a lot and i would buy it, but i already have Redmi Note 5 and i dont need a new phone for few years. I dont have money to buy phone like changing socks :D And i dont leash phones too. I buy them out on the day i buy them. Only things in life you leash are apartment, house or a car that are too expensive to buy out day one. In technology leashing is not worth it. By the time you have paid the last bill the tech is already too old that it does not cost anything and nobody really want to buy used tech that is 2+ years old as second hand. And especially low prices Chinese brands.