The fastest growing startup in China, XiaoMi did it again, with their latest offering, Redmi Note 2, featuring performance in par with the current flagship devices, without a hole in your wallet. With a price tag of USD155, this is undeniably the bang of the buck.

(Screenshot from http://www.mi.com/my/note2/ on Dec 12 2015)

Featuring MediaTek Helio X10, octa-core processor, and PowerVR G6200 GPU, this device is not an entry-level phone but a beast that is capable of taming flagship devices.

(Screenshot from http://www.gizmochina.com/2015/08/13/newly-announced-xiaomi-redmi-note-2-benchmark-scores-released/ on Dec 12 2015)

The benchmark shown here shows that the Redmi Note 2 crushes several flagship devices in terms of benchmark scores, with Redmi Note 2 scoring 48983 on Antutu test, crushing several flagship devices such as (MeiZu MX4, Samsung Note 4, Asus Zenfone 2, One+ One, Galaxy S5).

Official page and translation is available here

Smart routers has becoming pretty popular lately, the ever growing bandwidth throughout consumer base, people needed a good routers, not an old one featuring low speed standard like 802.11b. The new MiWifi offers 802.11ac standard, up to gigabit wireless connection for your devices.

It act as an home NAS (Network attached storage), offering variant from 1TB to 6TB of storage, to store all your precious moment from photos, documents to movies you can intelligently queue the device to download whenever you're not utilising it.
It also a smart hub, controlling smart devices offered by XiaoMi including smart socket, lighting and many more.

Below are the translation for the main site. (Page acquired on Sep 5, 16:30)
http://www.mi.com/index.html
http://www.mi.com/miwifi/

How pricey your telcos offer you? U Mobile Malaysia is setting new benchmark about how affordable data plan can be, and should be. With RM28 (USD6.7/mo), you can get yourself a unlimited data plan (3GB high speed).

Useful features like carry forward un-utilised calls and free 50MB roaming deals. Do note that all the data plan listed here are unlimited data plan (capped to 128kbps when high-speed data depleted), all subscribers are to enjoy LTE connection.
Free roaming deals are available at countries such as Australia, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Taiwan and many more.

RM28(USD6.7)
Data : 2Gb
Voice : 50Minutes
Sms to Local : 200
Sms to Same operator : 100
Free 50MB roaming deal

RM50(USD12)
Data : 5Gb
Voice : 50Minutes , 30Minutes free daily to same operator
Sms to Local : 200
Sms to Same operator : 100
Free 50MB roaming deal

RM70(USD16.8)
Data : 7Gb
Voice : 70Minutes , 30Minutes free daily to same operator
Sms to Local : 200
Sms to Same operator : 100
Free 50MB roaming deal

snapshot were captured as of 21 August 2015

U Mobile Malaysia
Roaming Deals
UMI Plan

4K TV? 55-inch?

This is the 4K TV that will not hurt your wallet, Mi has been acquiring its status quo as the household electronics company. The TV market is advancing at such a slow pace, the release cycle and innovation of TV is not "that well" at all.

The TV comes in a variance of size, in this case, the 55-inch 4K TV cost just a shy RMB 4499 (USD704), and the cinema Version cost RMB4799 (USD 782). The cinema version includes Soundbar and a wireless subwoofer. Translation embedded into the picture.

The picture is a snapshot captured from XiaoMi website on August 16, 2015.

TongBu Tui

Seeking iOS AppStore alternative?
We got you one, it's called TongBu (同步推 "Sync-Push" ), it is a Chinese platform offering full-fledged experience for you to escape iOS App Store completely. It can replace iTunes, Appstore, Ringtone Services and more service to come.

Genuine Authorisation ("The Cracked apps")
Tongbu offers users authorised genuine apps, which in context, rightfully wrong genuine, wrongfully right genuine. The picture above shows the apps I was downloading earlier this morning.

The app launch perfectly, just like what you get from the App Store.
How about updates? No worries.

Desktop Client  support of both Windows and Mac.

Find out more on the official website here.

Our transition to cloud? It's not going to be easy. *(Spoiler: They offer Terabytes of free storage).
With the ever-growing amount of data we need to store, storage size has to be humongous. Free storage company like Dropbox, Box, iCloud, Google Drive and etc, offer free storage, but the amount they are offering is simply too few, and the features are so limited without subscription.Today, we're going to talk about Baidu Cloud (Baidu cloud drives, 百度云盘), this is  an one-of-a-kind offer, offering crazy amount of storages and unimaginable features.

This is the homepage

After we've logged in, this is Home

With news feed, the files you subscribed to.

Here are some example news feed I subscribed.

From US drama to games to literally everything. (Lots of translated content)

You can find your interested subscription list, or you can make yourself a new group sharing.

Baidu made cloud sharing a social network, people share files together, learn together.

Here are the navigation

Cloud drives, contacts, recent call logs, sms, photos, documents, note,  find my phone, my mini-baidu.

With built-in navigation, for pictures, documents, video, torrents, musics, and others file.

There's also recycle bin, for accidentally deleted files.

Task Push

Task pushing, the ability to push task to your PC or Mac, so when you're home, your content are ready for you to be consumed.

Offline Cache (Torrent Caching)

Cache files for free, supporting torrents and http download, you don't ever need to torrent yourself again.

Storage pricing

With unbeatable pricing value per GB, baidu is set to revolutionize how people use cloud drive. The more storage you buy, the more savings you will get.

15 Gb for 75RMB     (Yuan) (12.07 US Dollar)

100Gb for 500RMB  (Yuan) (80.48 US Dollar)

Vip perks

Need some extra juice? Vip can get you extra perks, like 5 Terabytes of Storage (If the current 2T isn't enough for you, speed boost, ultra high file size limit, 5000 files submit limitations, file search, cloud decompression, photo face detection, Time machine for files.

There are simply too many features for us to go on one-by-one and side-by-side.
Baidu is a very innovative search company, with years of experience, it is considered the Google of China.
For years, Baidu has been trying to innovate themselves, offering more than search services, going diverse. Cloud is one of their best offering to change the whole industry.


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