In what might be another shock, the U.S. doesn’t hold the biggest slice of the world’s market share either. That honor belongs to China. So it makes sense that the third-biggest smartphone maker in the world is a Chinese company named Xiaomi.
Xiaomi makes everything from electric scooters, watches, and earbuds to set-top boxes, shavers, and vacuum cleaners. Its Android-based smartphones are some of the best values on the market, with exceptional build quality (not to mention cameras) that go toe to toe with the heavyweights. It sells them in over 50 countries, but the United States has never been one of them.
Well, that’s not entirely true. On February 1, 2016, US Mobile quite unexpectedly started selling a few different Xiaomi (and Meizu) model phones in the United States. US Mobile was — and probably still is to the vast majority of consumers — a relatively unknown prepaid cell phone carrier that uses T-Mobile’s network.
Less than twenty-four hours later, sales were forcibly stopped when T-Mobile announced Xiaomi’s phones needed to go through additional “certification procedures.” At the same time, Xiaomi stated that US Mobile wasn’t even authorized to sell its phones in the first place. Not only that, but they had no plans for “authorized distributors in the U.S.” to sell their phones in the future. To paraphrase one soup-controlling vendor, “No phones for you!”
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