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Xiaomi Gobbles up Selfie Smartphone Brand Meitu
BUSINESS

Xiaomi Gobbles up Selfie Smartphone Brand Meitu

The Chinese smartphone major Xiaomi is recently diversifying into a new range of phones as the Chinese smartphone maker announced impressive growth with its latest financials. With this, the company has announced its plans to take over selfie app maker Meitu’s smartphone business to go after new demographics. This is being done particularly keeping in focus the women, while it lodged impressive 49 percent revenue growth in Q3. Xiaomi posted a net profit of 2.481 billion RMB ($357 million) for the quarter on total sales of 50.846 billion RMB ($7.3 billion). The majority of those phones are sold in China, but the company said that international revenue overall was up by 113 percent year-on-year. Also, the very well-known for its ‘beautification’ selfie apps, Meitu sells smartphones ...
China’s Meitu Pacts with British Museum to Launch a Woman’s Smartphone
CHINA

China’s Meitu Pacts with British Museum to Launch a Woman’s Smartphone

China’s leading mobile internet company, Meitu along with the British Museum is all set to launch a limited edition smartphone by and large for the women. It brings forth Artificial Intelligence (AI) as well as beautification technology. It’s the first time that the British Museum has partnered with a smartphone company on a co-branded project. The design of the smartphone has been inspired by one of the best and famed Rococo artists named Antoine Watteau. The beautiful smartphone (a limited edition of Meitu’s V6) is priced at $1,101 (6,999 yuan). The sale of the phone starts from 20th May 2018. It is available from May 20 on jd.com and from May 30 at China Telecom retail stores. To add to the specifications, the smartphone has introduced Dual-pixel front camera fitted with Optica...