Xiaomi the famous Chinese phone maker had announced its plans to enter the tablet market with the Mi Pad back in May and looks like the tablet has gone on sale recently. A post on the official company forum says that Xiaomi sold 50000 units of the MiPad tablet on launch day thereby running out of stocks. Continue reading for some more breathtaking news. The 50,000 MiPads were sold out in just 3 minutes and 59 seconds. There is no mention about the location but we place our bets on China as it is the home market for handset maker which is now headed my Ex-Googler Hugo Barra. Priced aggressively at about 240 USD / Rs.14400 for the base 16GB version , the company is clearly taking on the Apple iPad Mini with its first tablet.
Here are the specs of the Xiaomi MiPad
- 7.9-inch (2048 × 1536 pixels) display at 326 ppi with 4:3 aspect ratio and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection
- 2.2 GHz NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor
- 8MP rear camera with Sony BSI stacked sensor, 1080p video recording, f/2.0 aperture
- 5MP front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture
- 8.5mm thick and weighs 360 grams
- WiFi 802.11/b/g/n/ac Dual Band (2X2 MIMO)
- 2GB of RAM, 16GB / 64GB of internal storage, up to 128GB expandable memory with microSD
- 6700 mAh battery
- Android-based MiUI ROM
Xiaomi is expected to enter the India market soon and we can only hope that it launches the MiPad tablet here along with the Hongmi and MI3 phones.