Xiaomi is celebrating. The company turns 13 years olda long and intense journey in which he has managed to change the market, offering us the latest in technology at a reasonable priceboth in smartphones, as well as in electric scooters, household appliances and in general a wide variety of smart products.
On this day, August 16, 2011, Xiaomi presented its first smartphone, the Xiaomi Mi 11. This was their first flagship and despite being a totally unknown brand it managed to accumulate More than 300,000 reservations in just 34 hours.
Xiaomi Mi 1, the first smartphone that introduced the “quality/price”
Priced at 1,999 yuan, about 260 euros at the current exchange rateThe Xiaomi Mi 1 debuted in China as a much cheaper alternative to the smartphones then sold by Samsung, Nokia, HTC and Apple.
Although today its features may sound ridiculous to you, the Xiaomi Mi 1 stood out for having a Qualcomm MSM8260 at 1.7GHz. This processor was positioned as one of the most recommended of that year and was combined with 1GB RAM and 4GB internal storage.
In addition, the screen of this first smartphone was LCD type and did not exceed 4 inches. This was manufactured by Sharp and had a resolution of just 480 x 854 pixelsenough for its size.
Beyond that, this smartphone that is celebrating its 13th anniversary stood out for having an 8MP main camera. Thanks to its focal aperture of f/2.4 It managed to take some pretty decent photos, although it wasn’t until the Xiaomi Mi 9 that Xiaomi focused fully on improving the cameras of its smartphones.
Otherwise, the Xiaomi Mi 1 stood out for having a battery of 1.930mAh. Added to this was MIUI V2.3a customization layer based on Android 2.3 Gingerbread that was very similar, both in its interface and icons, to the operating system that Apple used on its iPhones.