The company that copies everything Apple and Samsung do has a problem with exploding phones

[Guest Zach Epstein]

http://androidforum.us/data/MetaMirrorCache/e2ffc4d13ba47aa29d9a2e1589b1ef2d.jpgSafety implications aside, this has to be the greatest and most hilarious story of comeuppance we've seen in a long time in consumer tech. Xiaomi, for those unaware, is a China-based smartphone startup that has found tremendous success in the cell phone market. In the company's early days, it launched inexpensive, relatively high-quality Android phones that looked like iPhones. In fact, it shamelessly copied every move Apple made. It even once launched a phone by having an executive in jeans and a black mock turtleneck host a press conference. Seriously, we're not joking. Then, Xiaomi moved on and started to copy everything Samsung did, too. It launched nice big phones that mirrored Samsung's nice big phones, and it even has a line of phablets with built-in styluses. But now, Xiaomi has taken things a step too far.

 

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