Xiaomi never stops to surprise its customers. Their recent surprise was the massive Mi Max that was launched in India last week.
The phone has a massive 6.44 inch display. In a country like India where bigger is always better, Xiaomi's put their bets on such a form factor. This device is the third launch by Xiaomi in India this year.
Xiaomi believes that there is still a market for calling tablets in India. It's just the design and form-factor that pushes people away from buying large 7-inch calling tablets from Samsung and Lenovo. So they saw a problem and now they seek to resolve that with the Mi Max. A device that's probably confused that whether it's a smartphone or a tablet.
For starters, even I didn't like what I saw. But it's a matter of habit. Back in 2012 when Samsung launched its first Note, many of us were perplexed as to whether the consumers would actually like such a device. But within a year we saw so many smartphones come with screen sizes of more than 5-inch and even inching closer to the 6-inch form-factor.
It's not like other smartphone makers have not experimented with a more than 6-inch display device. Sony tried their hands with the Xperia Ultra. It was a phone that was well made for its time but it was the price that consumers didn't fancy. Micromax has been making a 6-inch plus device for years now in the form of Canvas Doodle.
Both the phones had their takers, but not many. And it's indeed a bold step that Xiaomi has taken to launch such a hulk phone. The phone comes in two variants - 32 GB (with Snapdragon 650 and 3 GB RAM) and 128 GB (with Snapdragon 652 and 4 GB RAM). The former is priced at Rs 14,999, while the latter costs Rs 19,99
The phone has a massive 6.44 inch display. In a country like India where bigger is always better, Xiaomi's put their bets on such a form factor. This device is the third launch by Xiaomi in India this year.
Xiaomi believes that there is still a market for calling tablets in India. It's just the design and form-factor that pushes people away from buying large 7-inch calling tablets from Samsung and Lenovo. So they saw a problem and now they seek to resolve that with the Mi Max. A device that's probably confused that whether it's a smartphone or a tablet.
For starters, even I didn't like what I saw. But it's a matter of habit. Back in 2012 when Samsung launched its first Note, many of us were perplexed as to whether the consumers would actually like such a device. But within a year we saw so many smartphones come with screen sizes of more than 5-inch and even inching closer to the 6-inch form-factor.
It's not like other smartphone makers have not experimented with a more than 6-inch display device. Sony tried their hands with the Xperia Ultra. It was a phone that was well made for its time but it was the price that consumers didn't fancy. Micromax has been making a 6-inch plus device for years now in the form of Canvas Doodle.
Both the phones had their takers, but not many. And it's indeed a bold step that Xiaomi has taken to launch such a hulk phone. The phone comes in two variants - 32 GB (with Snapdragon 650 and 3 GB RAM) and 128 GB (with Snapdragon 652 and 4 GB RAM). The former is priced at Rs 14,999, while the latter costs Rs 19,99
