Xiaomi Says Smartphone Shipments Almost Quadruple in First Half
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Xiaomi Corp. smartphone shipments almost quadrupled in the first half of this year, surpassing the total amount of the devices the company sold in 2013.
The four-year-old smartphone maker that outsells Apple Inc. in China shipped 26 million smartphones in the first half of this year, almost four times the 7.03 million devices sold in the same period a year ago, Tony Wei, a spokesman for the Beijing-based company, said by phone today. Xiaomi shipped 18.7 million units in 2013.