Xiaomi, which is also known equally Apple of China, provides an affordable together with in-budget smartphones amongst nearly all features that an first-class smartphone provides.
On fifth March, when Bluebox researchers claimed to cause got discovered roughly critical flaws inwards Mi4 LTE smartphone, Xiaomi issued a disputation to The Hacker News claiming that "There are glaring inaccuracies inwards the Bluebox weblog post" together with that they are investigating the matter.
RESEARCHERS GET TROLLED BY CHINESE SELLERS
Now, Xiaomi responded to Bluebox Labs yesteryear preparing a lengthy denial to their claims together with said the novel Mi4 smartphone purchased yesteryear Bluebox squad inwards China (known equally the birthplace of mistaken smartphones) was non an master copy Xiaomi smartphone but a counterfeit product.
"We cause got concluded our investigation on this theme — the device Bluebox obtained is 100% proven to move a counterfeit production purchased through an unofficial channel on the streets inwards China," Xiaomi spokesperson told The Hacker News inwards an e-mail statement. "It is so non an master copy Xiaomi production together with it is non running official Xiaomi software, equally Bluebox has also confirmed inwards their updated weblog post."
This means, Mi4 LTE smartphone owned yesteryear Bluebox are tempered yesteryear the local Chinese shops itself. What the Heck! Chinese larn trolled yesteryear Chinese.
XIAOMI DECLINES BLUEBOX CLAIMS
Xiaomi provided a detailed step-by-step explanation on each together with every fact together with figure:
- Hardware: Xiaomi hardware experts cause got analysed the internal device photos provided to the companionship yesteryear Bluebox together with confirmed that the physical hardware is markedly dissimilar from the master copy Mi four smartphone.
- IMEI number: Xiaomi after-sales squad has confirmed that the IMEI on the device from Bluebox is a cloned IMEI number which has been previously used on other counterfeit Xiaomi devices inwards China.
- Software: Xiaomi MIUI squad has also confirmed that the software installed on the device from Bluebox is non an official Xiaomi MIUI build.
The companionship assured its customers that their devices neither come upwards rooted, nor cause got whatsoever malware pre-installed.
Contrary to Bluebox claims, the companionship also assured its customers that the MIUI used inwards their products is truthful Android, which agency MIUI follows exact Google's Android CDD (Compatibility definition Document), together with passes all Android CTS tests to laid upwards certain a given device is fully Android compatible.
Declining to Bluebox finding, Xiaomi released the next disputation inwards an e-mail to The Hacker News:
As this device is non an master copy Xiaomi product, together with non running an official Xiaomi MIUI software build, Bluebox’s findings are completely inaccurate together with non representative of Xiaomi devices. We believe Bluebox jumped to a decision equally good chop-chop without a fully comprehensive investigation (for example, they did non initially follow our published hardware verification procedure correctly due to linguistic communication barrier) together with their attempts to contact Xiaomi were inadequate, considering the severity of their accusations.
With the large parallel street marketplace for mobile phones inwards China, in that location exists counterfeit products that are nearly indistinguishable on the outside. This happens across all brands, affecting both Chinese together with unusual smartphone companies selling inwards China. Furthermore, "entrepreneurial" retailers may add together malware together with adware to these devices, together with fifty-fifty become to the extent of pre-installing modified copies of pop benchmarking software such equally CPU-Z together with Antutu, which volition move "tests" showing the hardware is legitimate.
Xiaomi takes all necessary measures to scissure downwardly on the manufacturers of mistaken devices or anyone who tampers amongst our software, supported yesteryear all levels of constabulary enforcement agencies inwards China.
