Xiaomi: Its plans for the foldable Smartphone, and its entry into the USA

At the MWC in Barcelona, ​​Xiaomi unveiled its first 5G phone, the Mi Mix 5G, and the flagship Mi 9, but something we did not see from Xiaomi was a foldable phone.

Η The truth is that one might not have expected the company to unveil such a device if it had not been for the video we spent last month showing Xiaomi a foldable Smartphone, by Xiaomi co-founder and president Bin Lin, who and us introduced the company's first Foldable phone, which in fact folded in 2 parts.

Xiaomi spokesman Donovan Sung told Venture Beat that the company is testing a range of folding devices, but believes it is best for the company to wait for the market to mature before launching any of its own devices.

Xiaomi is known for its philosophy of Value for money devices, and it may feel that selling a Smartphone that could cost over $ 1.900 is against its philosophy. He also said that Bin's video with the folding phone was made public for two reasons.

1st The company wanted to show the public that it is working on the construction of such a Smartphone.
2st That it has made enough progress in this folding device, which is functional, to share its work with consumers.

Also if you remember, on July 4, 2018, Xiaomi Vice President Wang Xiang said that he hopes that Xiaomi will enter the US market in 2019, but this is obviously not going to happen.

Xiaomi is currently selling a number of smart devices and accessories in the US, but no smartphones, and as Sung said, Xiaomi is postponing the release of Smartphones in the US until 2020.

It seems that everything that has happened recently with Huawei & ZTE, with their exclusion from the US market, but also the tense relations between the two countries (US and China), have played a decisive role in changing Xiaomi's business plan, in terms of the US market for 2019.

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