Xiaomi has shipped over 11 million smartphones so far this year

There’s no denying that Xiaomi has become and incredibly popular smartphone brand in a short time, but just how explosive their growth has been is genuinely surprising. Nobody is surprised when Apple or Samsung shift tens of millions of units in a matter of months, because they’re both global behemoths with marketing budgets bigger than some companies’ profits. When a relative newcomer from China ships 11 million smartphones in the first three months of the year? Yeah, that’s surprising.