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Being in Hong Kong I'm definitely interested in the Xiaomi Mi Mix. It's beautiful! And the price is great. Just gonna wait on reviews, and hope that it's rootable/not riddled with spyware.
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Well the Mi Mix has a fingerprint scanner, so...
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Oct 27, 2016 14:54
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I'm sure the NSA can look at anyone's personal info whenever they want. What is China going to do to you?
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Oct 28, 2016 02:29
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Hurrah for being white! But yeah, I can definitely imagine China spying on its own citizens, because of course they do, but I can't see what use they'd have for spying on an American or European phone owner. They might be though. Hopefully this'll be moot and I'll be able to root the Mi Mix and stop any spyware anyway. Hopefully...
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Oct 28, 2016 05:26
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A $100 is a lot of money to some people, Hyper Privileged Man! Also I don't think the Pixel justifies that insane price tag. I'd rather try out the Mi Mix. You don't even need to "fix" it anyway, it's just for people who are paranoid about spyware.
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Oct 28, 2016 10:40
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Well I've been using ROMs for like 4 years and never had a problem. Well, maybe I have and someone has stolen ALL my data, but if I don't know it's happened it's ok, right guys?
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Oct 28, 2016 12:12
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Electronico6 posted:Mi Mix uses a Qualcomm SoC, so you most likely will get a CM port at the least. Most Xiaomi Qualcomm get one eventually. That's pretty cool. I haven't used CM in years, but it's nice to know it might be an option! Honestly I'd just be happy with root. Can't live without it.
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Oct 28, 2016 16:54
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LastInLine posted:The key difference being that data exfiltration portals and silent malware installers are not intentionally being built into non-Chinese handsets. How do you know? :p
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Oct 29, 2016 05:43
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You're absolutely right, it's indefensible. And it definitely does happen with certain Chinese handsets (maybe all of them). In an ideal world I'd rather no one steal my data. But if I had choice between China or America, well... I just don't see what China would do with it. I don't see how it would help them at all. I'll wait and see what happens with the Mi Mix, maybe there won't be any spyware? There probably won't be, right?
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Oct 29, 2016 07:47
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Everything you are saying is absolutely true. For me I think it's the second question you posed, as well as hoping that the Mi Mix is a big deal and I'm hoping that Xioami will be more stringent with security, as well as hoping that root and ROMs will give more security/control over my device, and that if there is an exploit someone will find it and I'll know about it and remedy it (probably). I shouldn't HAVE to do any of this, but I'd rather put up with a possibility of that and have an interesting phone than pay an extra $200 for a boring Pixel.
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Oct 29, 2016 14:54
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Are you mocking me son
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Oct 29, 2016 15:07
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Seeing some YouTube videos saying the Mi Mix camera is poo poo. That's a shame
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Oct 30, 2016 09:29
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I'm looking at either the Xiaomi Mi5S Plus or the Note 2. I'll wait for reviews to see if the Note is worth the extra dolla dolla. The Mi Mix will be too scarce and pricey outside of China I think. The Mi5S is a ridiculously good price for what you get.
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Nov 1, 2016 12:07
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The irony is that we were mainly talking about ordering phones from China, and the only ones affected by this were BLU phones available exclusively from Amazon in America.
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Nov 16, 2016 08:40
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I got my ZTE Axon 7 yesterday as it happens, so went looking for some news. The head of the technology department for ZTE posted on the official forums that the exploit is not on my phone at least! And he wouldn't lie to me.
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I saved $350 :p
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