Comment on Chinese Smartphone Maker Meizu to Raise Funding and Set up R&D Center in the US to Take on Xiaomi by Chinese Android Phone Makers Now into Software Arms Race | TechNode

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Meizu as a smartphone maker isn’t so well-known to the world outside mainland China as Huawei, ZTE and, more recently, Xiaomi. announced big plans that the company would introduce external funding, change the shareholding structure and establish a R&D center in the U.S.. Then Meizu decided to adopt Android instead and would launch M9, pre-loaded with Android 2.2, in January 2011. But Xiaomi, founded no earlier than April 2010, would steal the show and become today’s hype in China’s smartphone market. What’s true is the first two Xiaomi smartphones were like Meizu’s a lot.