igeekphone August 16 news, today is a special day for Xiaomi and rice flour friends – Xiaomi mobile phone 12th birthday.
On August 16, 2011, the first product of Xiaomi mobile phone was officially released, at that time, everyone did not think that it would set off the change of the entire domestic mobile phone industry, until today, the domestic mobile phone industry has led the world.
In particular, the 1999 yuan pricing that shocked the whole audience at the press conference threw a bomb to the mobile phone market at that time. In 1999, it also became the classic pricing of subsequent generations of Xiaomi digital flagships.
At that time, the domestic high-end mobile phone prices are more than 4,000 yuan, almost by SONY, LG, iPhone, Samsung and other technology giants monopoly, most of the domestic brands are mixed cottage machine.
Xiaomi mobile phone with 1999 yuan pricing completely changed the pattern of China’s smart phone market, after the red rice mobile phone and almost completely ended the fate of the cottage machine.
At the beginning, Xiaomi’s initial products were very popular, which is inseparable from Xiaomi’s Internet thinking, especially the MIUI system, which came out one year in advance on August 16, 2010, attracted countless mobile phone enthusiasts.
At that time, many netizens gave MIUI suggestions to help find bugs, especially when the development version was pushed on time every Friday, so that many enthusiasts can experience new features every week, which is very much expected, and even known as “Orange Friday”.
For more than a decade, millet mobile phones and MIUI have experienced a moment of word-of-mouth collapse, but now whether it is the latest millet 13 series, or MIUI 14 are undoubtedly among the peak works of domestic mobile phones.
Of course, behind this is inseparable from the support of rice friends, so Xiaomi is also very grateful to the original millet 1 generation users.
At the annual speech in 2021, Lei Jun said: Ten years ago, Mi 1 was sold, 1,999 yuan, 184,600 units, 370 million yuan, which is Xiaomi’s first income. With this income, we have a rolling development, only today’s world Top 500, only today’s global second!
Lei Jun announced at that time to refund the income of Xiaomi mobile phone 1, each gave a red envelope of 1999 yuan, and all the first users could buy any product without threshold, which was a sensation.