Xiaomi ‘s first ever press conference at the annual Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas could have been the company’s entrance into the huge US market.
Instead, many were left disappointed as the Chinese tech company chose to debut two new exciting products exclusive to its home market of China.
Unlike its rivals, such as LeEco, which caused a big splash with its US entry , Xiaomi has been studiously keeping low-key and laying ground work.
«This strategy of coming in with big money, a massive event, lots of suits — that’s not us,» said Hugo Barra, Xiaomi’s global VP in an previous interview with CNET. «And I don’t think this will work with any brand coming into the US.
Showing off a new, super-slim modular 4K TV, a router and a new white version of its Mi Mix concept phone, Xiaomi’s CES debut was aimed at showing its home market that it has made the big stage in the US — but still has China in mind.
«CES is a great chance for us to let people get to know us better,» said Xiaomi’s Wang Xiang, senior VP in a statement to CNET. «And keep in mind that CES is no longer purely a US-orientated show, it’s a global exposition to the point where it makes sense for us to launch products for China and other countries right here. »
Even its Mi Router HD, a 4×4 MU-MIMO networking device with speeds of up to 2,600Mbps, sporting a $200 (roughly AU$270, £160) price tag for the 1Tb version, would make a lot of sense for the US.
«It was likely for bragging rights back home that a Chinese company has hit the big global stage at a key show like CES,» said IDC research analyst Bryan Ma. «It was a similar line of thought with their press event at Mobile World Congress last year. »
Ma also added that Xiaomi’s CES launch likely had another purpose in mind: To cozy up to US media for when it finally launches there.
Xiaomi is already in 20 countries in the world, but the US, Australia and many European markets remain. Getting there, however, looks like it’ll take some time.

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Nvidia has subjected its Shield Android TV game console to a metamorphosis. Where before company emphasized the box’s potence as a stand-alone game machine, at its pre-CES keynote last night, Nvidia re-introduced the Shield as » the world’s most advanced streamer. » To that end, Nvidia announced that an updated version of the little Android box can handle streaming 4K HDR video. The updated Shield is once again available in regular and Pro flavors.
Even if you don’t have your own collection of 4K HDR content, don’t fret—the Shield Android TV can stream 4K media from Netflix, YouTube, Google Play, Vudu, and Amazon Video. Nvidia also underscored the device’s suitability for game streaming , with support for its own services GeForce Now and Nvidia GameStream, along with the ability to serve as a Steam Link. The Shield Pro, with its 500GB internal hard drive, can also serve as a Plex Media server.
Along with its streaming capabilities, Nvidia also highlighted the Shield TV’s utility as the centerpoint of a smart home. Shield can accept voice commands to control Nest home automation devices, as well as its own functions, like media playback. Nvidia integrated Google Assistant functionality into the device, too, allowing for voice-controlled searching and browsing.
To pick up voice commands, the Shield includes an updated controller with a built-in microphone. Nvidia had a further surprise on display: a device known as Spot , which appears to be a wireless microphone that can be placed in the home, not unlike Amazon’s Echo Dot.
At first sight, the hardware inside the updated Shield Android TV appears to be essentially unchanged, with the Tegra X1 SoC mated to 3GB of memory. However, the new package comes with the aforementioned updated controller, as well as the media remote that used to be a $50 extra. The price is unchanged, too: $199 for the standard Shield TV package with 16GB of local storage, or $299 for the Shield Pro with 500GB and integrated Plex Media Server.

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10:57AM EST — It looks like it’ll just be one person live blogging this event so we’ll have to see how things go here
10:57AM EST — I’m not expecting a lot from LG in terms of mobile announcements here, generally speaking they wait until MWC to really announce the big things
10:58AM EST — WiFi appears to be working much better than previous years but we’ll have to see how it holds up
10:59AM EST — These venues are always the real stress tests for RF designs on both receive and transmit for both AP and client. Lots of APs and clients all working on roughly the same frequency spectrum
10:59AM EST — Even minor side channel noise on transmit can seriously impact the throughput of all other clients/APs.
11:00AM EST — Dr Skott Ahn takes the stage
11:02AM EST — Looks like we’ll be seeing more appliances and TVs today
11:04AM EST — Robots, new appliances, webOS 3.5 for TV
11:04AM EST — New LG Signature OLED TV
11:05AM EST — To avoid an excess of snarky comments I’m going to focus on mostly taking photos here
11:08AM EST — More WiFi in your appliances so 4chan can hijack it to deliver more pizza to your door
11:09AM EST — «DeepThinQ AI» for object sensing robot vacuums
11:10AM EST — The AC unit will be more efficient using human sensing and power saving modes
11:11AM EST — WebOS now for your fridge
11:11AM EST — FHD 29 inch display so you can see every pixel
11:12AM EST — You can now look inside your fridge by using the display which is amazing
11:12AM EST — There’s really no other way to look inside a fridge
11:13AM EST — You can now put a smiley face on your fridge door display
11:14AM EST — You can now look inside your fridge from your phone with an ultra-wide camera
11:15AM EST — You can now look at recipes on your fridge which is the only way you can really get recipes at all
11:15AM EST — Alexa will also be on the new fridge along with Dash button replenishment
11:17AM EST — Smart Instaview refrigerator will make your life better, easier, and more fun especially with Amazon Alexa(tm)
11:18AM EST — You can check the calorie count of chicken wings and play music from your fridge which is what you need in a fridge
11:21AM EST — A new IoT hub which has never been done before
11:23AM EST — Apparently there’s an airport guide robot which is being deployed at Incheon Airport to help people get to various areas in the airport and clean up within the airport
11:27AM EST — New 4K LCD TVs using 1 nm «nanocell» quantum dots
11:28AM EST — Over 90% DCI coverage, better off-axis viewing and higher contrast
11:28AM EST — I wonder if OLED is even possible for 4K with acceptable yield and cost
11:32AM EST — A Technicolor expert mode to enhance color reproduction?
11:34AM EST — HLG and advanced HDR by technicolor for OLED TVs by LG
11:34AM EST — Apparently technicolor is using LG OLED displays for reference displays
11:35AM EST — 25% brightness improvement, HDR effect for normal video/images
11:37AM EST — Somehow iOS devices can Live Blog properly now which is neat but probably unrelated to this press conference
11:45AM EST — Looks like we’re wrapping up
11:45AM EST — Thanks for following, stay tuned for more information from CES 2017

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