Xiaomi almost caught up with Apple's smartphone sales in China

In I quarter of this year Xiaomi sold about 15 million smartphones, up 3.98 million gadgets more than in the same period of 2014, according Vestifinance referring to the report of the company. In terms of sales of "smart" phones is a Chinese manufacturer of almost caught up with the company Apple.

Only on the Chinese domestic market Xiaomi sold 13.5 million smartphones. For comparison, Apple sold in the territory of China 14.5 million iPhone, taking 14.7% share in the mobile market. Xiaomi kupertinovtsy almost equal, receive a share of 13.7%

Xiaomi smartphone shipments for 2014 reached 61.12 million units. Sales in China, Apple and Xiaomi in I quarter increased by 62.1% and 42.3%, respectively. Samsung also passed the position: shipments fell by 39.7% to 11.2 million.

Last year, the head of the Xiaomi Lei Jun said he hoped to change the situation with leadership in the mobile market Apple American and Korean Samsung. Chinese vendor expects in the next 5-10 years to become the largest smartphone maker in the world.

Currently Xiaomi is preparing to release a new gadget. The network has information about the new smartphone code-named Hermes with the possibility of two SIM-cards. The unit will be built on the platform MediaTek MT6795. The composition of the 64-bit chip has eight cores with the possibility of simultaneous operation. The platform provides support for Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth, GPS, FM, GLONASS, Beidou, and ANT +.

The smartphone has 2GB of RAM and a display format Full HD (1920 × 1080 pixels), the size of which is not specified. Presumably, the front camera will get a 5-megapixel sensor OmniVision OV5670, the main camera is equipped with a 13-megapixel sensor Samsung S5K3M2 ISOCELL.

Hermes will be concluded in the case with a metal frame and work on the operating system Android 5.x Lollipop with proprietary user interface MIUI 6.