Chris here with a bit of a random video here so this is just a vlog I wanted to get a few things
off my chest and talk about my relationship with xiaomi and a brand that I really do love I started
the channel when I started to pick up the views with tablets originally tech class tablets dual
boot tablets and then I moved over big time into xiaomi because this is a brand that I just saw a
lot of potential in and I still do so I was buying their review unit since the mi 2s covered that one
we've got the me Max uh then the three four five to five s models a seven the eight all of those
models all at my own cost their laptops I would buy them I would import them in from China pay the
exuberant taxes and import fees just to give you the coverage and because of my own General love
and interest of this brand xiaomi now around about 2019 things changed for me I started to get my
first review units from them they reached out to me or they finally answered my emails and things
were looking good they sent me out the Note 10 I think it was with one of my first review units
from them from then onwards I have been getting a few phones from them but one model back then was
delayed because of videos that I posted mentioning certain constructive points constructive criticism
that it seems that xiaomi wasn't too happy about like things like for example USB 2 ports in 2000
and then 2020 or 2021 audio bit rates being 96 kilobits per second you guys remember that they
have finally of course started using 320 kilobits per second but now they've got an issue with their
microphones having super bad wind noise there's no wind filtering at all so that was a bit of a
problem and Still Remains uh of course the blow where the front-facing camera's only been 1080p
you get the idea and I think someone in xiaomi headquarters has the wrong impression of me now
they think that I'm a hater uh I don't like the brand at all which is not true I've got their
xiaomi pad 6 pro at the moment it's fantastic tablet it's got USB 3.2 okay it's only five
gigabits per second but it's really good and it's got that fast 144hz screen Snapdragon 8 plus gen
one I have a review of that shortly still love the brand but you'll see nowadays I'm not going to be
covering them so much because I don't seem to have the review unit status anymore now I'm not crying
about it at my point in life my Channel's age of about 10 years now that I've been doing this the
views that xiaomi gets now it's not a big deal for me to be covering their Poco releases I won't have
the F5 Pro probably uh the xiaomi 13 Ultra there's no review units for me for that is their way of
saying you know no we don't want your reviews which is fine they can do what they want with
their review units with their money with their products I completely understand that but I bought
one myself so I do have my xiaomi 13 Ultra review in the works and I won't be afraid to mention
things like the 1080p front-facing camera the wind problem too with the audio now so the fixed a bit
rate and we've finally got video out yes and we do have the USB 3.2 as I mentioned so there are
a couple other things I wanted to mention Too part of the reason why they have probably decided that
you know this guy doesn't deserve review units um is back in 2019 no names are going to be mentioned
here I did talk to xiaomi PR the guy that was well one of the people in PR there and they straight up
were honest with me and said hey Chris look uh we love your reviews that was great to hear that
feedback but we don't want you reviewing Chinese units anymore please stop I was told to do that
and I thought that well that's I can understand why because he said it's the Chinese ROM it's not
a global ROM you're reviewing basically something that's not meant for the rest of the world uh and
I understood that when I said to them okay you know why don't you release it all at the same time
why do we have to have dual releases why China first then Global make it all at once they can't
do that I don't think they can do that or will do that it's always got to be China first and at the
same time I thought well hang on this is my money my choice I decided to buy the xiaomi 13 import 1
and the 13 prone to cover the Chinese model then it's at my own experience they don't really have
any say of that so that's one of the big things I do believe that's behind them deciding that hey
you know there's no review units for you anymore again I'm not bitter about it I'm not crying about
it I go with the companies that support me and you see a lot of the products I review now a lot
of random stuff I know because these companies they get in touch me and they say hey Chris do
you want to review this brand new Ultra Modern e-bike and I love e-bikes yes I'll review it
for you so there's a a lot of that going on sorry about the noise that's the neighbors my cameraman
here what's going on over there but anyway uh so long story short there will be less xiaomi reviews
from me I hope things change but we'll see what happens I just wanted to be open with you guys
my subscribers there because I know I have a lot of xiaomi fans out there and let me know in the
comments what do you think of xiaomi as a brand at the moment do you think the reason they've dropped
off about 30% is that because of just the global market the interest in Tech is dropping or is it
their own fault because they're releasing like 80 models per year they're rebranding the pocos
the redmi's far too many releases nothing really interesting apart from say the xiaomi 13 Ultra so
do check out and wait for that review which is coming the xiaomi 13 Ultra and then the xiaomi
pad 6 Pro that review should be out in a couple of days I've almost wrapped that one up completely