Xiaomi Phone is a mobile phone designed by the Xiaomi Tech Company, which was created by Lei Jun, CEO of Kingsoft

Kingsoft

Kingsoft is a software company located in China. Its products include Kingsoft Office, PowerWord, Kingsoft Internet Security, Kingsoft free antivirus and the Kingsoft FastAIT Chinese-English-Japanese translation software....

. Xiaomi is a high-end smartphone, using a Qualcomm

Qualcomm

Qualcomm is an American global telecommunication corporation that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access technology and other technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA...

 Snapdragon S3 (dual core, 1.5GHz) as its CPU and an Adreno 220 as its GPU, but its price (RMB1999/around USD310) is less than half the cost of a typical dual-core CPU smartphone. When it was released, the phone received more than 300,000 pre-orders in the first 34 hours..

Xiaomi is shipped with MIUI

MIUI

MIUI , developed by Xiaomi Tech, is an aftermarket firmware for cell phones based on the open-source Android operating system. It features a heavily-modified user interface that does away with the Android app drawer and has drawn comparisons with Apple's iOS...

 pre-loaded, but also supports stock Android ROMs and other 3rd party ROMs, and is in consideration to add Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

's Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market...

to the phone. .