Has Xiaomi stopped making cheap mobiles?

If you follow the evolution of the latest smartphones that are launched on the market or have been looking at which ones are for sale, you will have noticed that Xiaomi stands out more and more for the quality of its high-end products and phones. You may have wondered if Xiaomi has stopped making cheap mobiles.

If you keep asking yourself this question, we will tell you that the truth is that it is not and we will reason it out. In the brand, although it is manufacturing more and more high-end models under the Xiaomi brand, you can also find cheap phones. Although in this case, you will see them above all in the Redmi and POCO brands , where you will find a good selection of products designed for people who trust Xiaomi, but cannot or do not want to afford the prices that are handled in the range more brand high.

Has Xiaomi stopped making cheap mobiles

Perhaps the fact that on its back you do not find the Xiaomi brand , but with POCO or Redmi, is something that can confuse you. But this does not mean that they do not exist or that they are not from the famous Chinese company or that it has forgotten to manufacture cheap mobiles. Although we find that they do it under these other brands that you have surely noticed.

What are the Xiaomi ranges?

The high-end of the brand is presented under the Xiaomi models, specifically those that until now were presented under the Mi suffix, with prices above 400 euros and much more powerful processors, among other features such as higher quality finishes. You will find a good selection of them based on their characteristics and price, adapting to the tastes of their consumers.

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More in the mid- range , we find the Redmi series, with prices that are usually below 300 euros. Specifically in this case it would be the Note , better than the Redmi that do not carry this name. An example of these is the Redmi Note 10. Here the price ranges are usually similar in many models, so making the selection is not so simple and will depend on the needs and preferences of each person.

Now that if what we want is to look for phones within the entry range or low price , we will also find several possibilities in the brand. Specifically in the Redmi series, without being the Note, and the POCO. Its main feature is its price, lower than other models, but above all it also seeks greater battery life with more than decent performance for its price.

Redmi, sub-brand of cheap and mid-range mobiles

As confusing as it may seem to us, Red lives and depends on Xiaomi, which is why it is so associated with it. It is one of the company’s sub-brands, although there are others such as Amazfit, Mijia or BlackShark that we are not going to talk about in this case. On the one hand, we find the Redmi Note, which are the mid-range ones, and on the other hand, the cheapest ones are the Redmi to dry.

Being a sub-brand, it is not completely independent from it, but they share points of sale, they coexist in official points and they also share the MIUI operating system that is based on Android. Of course, the latter focuses on a different audience, showing that, although Xiaomi seeks the quality of its products, it does not forget the public that is looking for cheap mobiles. These are the ones that end up being interested in the Redmi, or the LITTLE that we will talk about next.

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This peculiar brand would be above all the one that would give us the answer to our question. No, Xiaomi has not stopped making cheap mobiles , but all of them, or at least the vast majority, are focused and found through the name Redmi.

The Pocos are a different brand from Xiaomi

For its part, Poco is a brand created precisely in the same year that Redmi became a Xiaomi sub-brand, in 2018, after the Pocophone was born. With its good value for money, they decided to make Poco the new brand of the company, with a different and independent logo in certain regions. Its main feature is its popular prices, closer to low-budget users to buy a mobile.

There are many people who do not relate it to Xiaomi or know its origins, and who think that it is a completely different brand despite the fact that it was born from the hand of Xiaomi.

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The Redmi and POCO , being in the same range of cheap products , compete with each other to be preferred by users. In fact, these are part of the success of the company, which obtains a good number of sales of cheap smartphones. It should be said that in recent years an approximate figure of 8 out of 10 mobile phones of the brand did not belong to the main brand, but to these two, which shows the importance of cheap phones for Xiaomi and how these have not ceased to exist nor It seems that they are going to do it at least in a long season. The POCOs are gaining ground considerably, despite the success of the Redmi.

That is why they will receive more and more high-end features and benefits to capture more of the attention of their users. Without neglecting the importance of its low price. Of course, they may even end up separating or differentiating themselves more from the main brand, which is focused on higher-priced models.