Xiaomi sells 100,000 MI3 phones in less than 90 seconds

News Wireless China 16 OCT 2013
Xiaomi sells 100,000 MI3 phones in less than 90 seconds
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has sold out 100,000 MI3 smartphones in one minute and twenty-six seconds. On its Twitter feed, the company also announced that 3,000 MITVs were sold in one minute and fifty-eight seconds. Xiaomi announced the MI3 smartphone and the smart TV in September and launched the online sale for the first batches on 15 October.

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