After HUAWEI, it looks like Xiaomi has also stumbled upon something that doesn't look nice with the U.S. Last week, it was reported that Xiaomi has been added to the country's government’s blacklist, which means that U.S. investors will not be allowed to purchase shares from the Chinese company. However, unlike HUAWEI, Xiaomi will still able to import and use technologies from the U.S. without a need for a license. Following the news, Xiaomi has issued a statement on the matter as follows:

It seems that Xiaomi has recently been placed in the US government’s blacklist, which means that US investors will not be allowed to purchase shares from Xiaomi. Unlike Huawei, Xiaomi is still able to import and use technologies from the US without a need for a license.

Other than smartphone and IoT products, Xiaomi also manufactures other products such as electric shavers, hair clippers, curling iron and more via the sub-brand called ENCHEN. With that being said, an ENCHEN Malaysia official store will open on 18 January 2021 on Lazada, which you can purchase Xiaomi ENCHEN products.

Based on a statement by a user on weibo, it seems that next year’s upcoming Redmi smartphone could come equipped with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset. While not much is known in regards to the exact nature of the smartphone, it does give us a better idea on what to expect when it is officially available in the global market.

Earlier, a rumour has suggested that a few smartphone brands will be launching their first foldable smartphones in 2021 and Xiaomi is among the list. Today, a tipster has shared some latest information with us claiming that Xiaomi will indeed launch their first foldable in 2021, and the launch could happen early next year.

Yesterday, Xiaomi have launched the latest custom interface MIUI 12.5 system in Beijing, China. According to sources, this system is lighter, quicker, and more efficient by comparing to the previous system.

In the past years, we have seen some smartphone brands started to put in the effort to be attractive in the laptop market. With Xiaomi started the laptop business some time ago and still going well, it looks like the sub-brand POCO is also planning to expand their product line with laptops. It is reported that two laptop batteries that were filed under the brand POCO have appeared on the BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) website.

As we're entering 2021, many analysts and tipsters have started to reveal what we can expect from the smartphone market next year. According to a source, Google, Xiaomi, OPPO, and vivo are going to announce their own foldable smartphones in the second half of the year. This comes as a surprise knowing that we'll get a Pixel foldable from Google soon! Well, maybe not Malaysia.

Android 11 has been out for a few months now and a roadmap got released online showing us which Xiaomi phone model would be getting the software update. Although there are no dates written on the chart, we still got to know exactly which devices are or aren't getting the upgrade.

Based on a statement by gizchina, it seems that Xiaomi wants to beat Apple by selling at least 300 million smartphones in 2021. While there is no official information on whether the number is actually achievable or not, our source mentioned that several analysts believe that such a feat might not be possible in such a short time span.