Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi is thinking of not packaging chargers with new phones

Tech companies have a nasty habit of saving a ton of coin by making fake statement that they are somehow contributing to the surroundings in some manner or the other. On this occasion, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun had poised a question to his followers on the Chinese social media site that we take come to know every bit Weibo. The private has stated that the surroundings is beingness negatively affected past the abounding number of smartphone chargers that are packed with these mobile devices. In brusk the CEO might be thinking of cut out this particular accessory from the packaging altogether.

Xiaomi Mi Charger Costs $1.lxx To Make, But Lei Jun Claims That Consumers Practice Not Cease Upwardly Using Them

Co-ordinate to Xiaomi Today, each smartphone charger arranged with a brand new Xiaomi smartphone costs 9.99 Yuan, or $one.lxx to manufacture. Jun claims that the influx of smartphone chargers is hurting the environment because consumers volition never use the one present in the package. Instead, the Xiaomi handset owner, specially those are in the ownership of devices running loftier-end Snapdragon SoCs will use a Quick Charge 2.0 compatible charger, which are much more expensive to acquire compared to regular chargers.

While high performing Snapdragon chipsets do back up the fast charging feature Quick Charge 2.0, consumers will also take to purchase a separate charger in order to have advantage of the aforementioned feature. So what is our accept on this? Well, for starters, the visitor'south VP, Hugo Barra stated before that flagship smartphones belonging to Xiaomi do not feature MicroSD slots or removable batteries considering somehow, these two features adversely affect the performance of high-end mobile devices.

Xiaomi has already earned the moniker the 'Apple of People's republic of china' cheers to copying the design of Apple'south smartphones and implementing them in to its own smartphones. The company prices its handsets far lower than the remaining competition in gild to target a larger marketplace. Simply recently, Xiaomi was rumored to be partnering with Chinese semiconductor maker Leadcore to make custom core chips for future Redmi devices.

With this partnership, indirect costs of chip manufacturing volition be severely reduced, which is exactly what Xiaomi wants, in social club to increase its margins. Similarly, the whole surroundings sobbing business could also be another ploy from Lei Jun in order to salvage upwardly on additional costs.

Let us hope that the firm does not cease up beingness a stingy one in the near future.

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