Xiaomi is a high-end smartphone, using a Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 (dual core, 1.5 GHz) as its CPU and an Adreno 220 as its GPU,but its price (RMB1999/around USD310) at initial release is less than half the cost of a typical dual-core CPU smartphone When it was released,the phone received more than 300,000 pre-orders in the first 34 hours.
After two rounds of 100,000 unit open to public releases on 18 December 2011 and 4 January 2012 respectively, the company has sold a total of 500,000 as of 5 January 2012.
On 20 December 2011, the company announced a partnership with Chinese telco China Unicom. The plan was to offer one million custom Mi-one models at 2699 RMB at Unicom stores on various two to three year term contracts.
Xiaomi is shipped with MIUI pre-installed, but also supports stock Android ROMs and other 3rd party ROMs, and is in consideration to add Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 to the phone
