The fans filled Auckland’s Westfield Sylvia Park to take advantage of the opening specials and get their hands on some Xiaomi tech.

This quarter saw a global 6% YoY decline in smartphone shipments, largely due to a 13% decline for market leader Samsung, but Xiaomi’s rise continues.

Mi smartphones are hitting Kiwi shores as sales grew by 88% last year - in contrast to the global market decline of 3% facing its competitors.

Despite global shipment numbers dropping by more than a third, the market outlook is still positive an IDC Tracker report shows.

Apple’s share of the market continues to grow along with Chinese competitors Xiaomi and Huawei. Fitbit still in decline.

While Google and Amazon still lead the way, it seems the smart speaker market is no exception to the steady rise of Chinese tech.

Global smartphone sales return to growth with Xiaomi grabbing up sales to hit over 100% year over year improvement.

Canalys says wearable band shipments grew 35 percent from the year before with a two horse race at the front & fierce competition behind.

During Q1 2018 we got a new leader on top of smartphone shipments, one vendor experiencing triple digit growth, and a huge decline in China.

The worldwide wearables market continued its upward trajectory in the final quarter of 2017 with full year shipment volumes reaching new records.

An IDC report has shown that Samsung’s smartphone shipments took a dive in Q4, letting Apple take the top spot but only for that quarter.

All of the top five smartphone vendors achieved double-digit growth apart from Apple.

Smartphone vendors may be launching their high-end flagships in abundance, but it’s more affordable models that will drive the market.

India's smartphone market has recovered from a shaky Q2 2017 to surge in growth with the five major vendors being the drivers - Xiaomi in particular.

The findings come from market research company Counterpoint in its recently released Market Pulse report for July 2017.

Apple has fallen to third place in the market, overtaken by both Xiaomi and Fitbit - despite the latter experiencing a 34% year-on-year decline.

​New research from IDC has revealed the smartphone market declined slightly in the second quarter of 2017 – but this is expected to soon change.

The worldwide wearables market continued its rapid rise in the first quarter of 2017 (1Q17) with multiple companies experiencing triple digit growth.

The Chinese technology firm says India is one of the important markets for the company.

"Simplicity is a driving factor and this is well reflected in the top vendor list as four out of five offer a simple, dedicated fitness device."

There is ongoing portfolio consolidation as local players change their product strategies, emphasising 4G-enabled models that are becoming mainstream.

From a packed Beijing event reminiscent of an Apple release, Xiaomi today released their new phone, and showed off their concept.

With the million and one wearables out there, why does the Mi Band 2 make so much sense, one that I’m happy to say is my smartwatch of choice?

With dodgy software and designs created by 3 year olds, Chinese Smartphones have consistently been cheap toys. Xiaomi are changing that.