Mega Chinese Electronics Manufactuer Xiaomi Yi Camera Tested
Author: John Scanlan, Published on Feb 05, 2016
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Comments (18)
Jeremy Ellis
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Undisclosed #1
Doex the Xi in Xiaomi refer in some way to Chairman Xi?
My Mandarin is a bit rusty but I believe a functional U.S. translation would be Obamera.
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Eddie Perry
I have been saying that for about 2 years now what should worry you more is the server that are here in the US they ping that china owns..... like the " it will automatically register to US based server for easy remote viewing" translation you are being watched and recorded by whoever has the best hackers
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Undisclosed #1
Security Icon Paul Blart prefers Xiaomi gear.
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Aleksandr Sekirov
Nice article, thank you!
Does this camera record only in 720p@20fps and motion detection, without able to change resolution, fps, set motion&audio detection or nonstop recording?
Does it have Substream?
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #3
XiaoYi is actually one of the small companies invested by XiaoMi, but XiaoMi only holds some share but does not control this company. The reason why XiaoMi does not want XiaoYi to use their "Mi" brand, is because they are not very sure they can control this company, also they are not sure the value of "Yi" can be consistent with "Mi". Apparently, they are not.
"Mi" brand started from copycat of iPhone and sold at a unreasonably low price, to let young Chinese people to feel they have an almost identical phone as iPhone, so it was extremely successful. Until they got a quite big market share in smartphone industry, and then slowed down the pace to grow again. It has been very funny always, because the big boss of "Mi" , who is Lei Jun, is always trying to imitate Steve Jobs, and he is trying to be considered as Jobs by Chinese people, their fans. but he is not. He has been always trying to copy other successful products, and he has no souls, if there is, it is low price and sell it fast, and also do a lot of fake advertisements. so now "Mi" phone users in China are considered to be losers, or "diors" .
"Yi" brand was started by XiaoYi, but not XiaoMi, but they are no better than "Mi". They have some ambition to be another "Mi", but they also beg from "Mi" to make a living. "Yi" is also trying to exploit the ecosystem, to cost down,cost down and cost down, and then sell at a non profitable price for a very big , good looking revenue, but they are also destroying the ecosystem. And soon "Yi" users are also labelled to be losers again.
The economy winter is coming, and liars will die, or they will change their lies. but please trust me, good companies that product good product will survive. but not "Mi" , or "Yi".
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