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The story
Reports say Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi will be raising prices in stages starting in September, with the “17T Pro” effectively going up by 20,000 yen.
On 5ch, the price hike itself took a back seat to a rambling debate over whether “Chinese phones can even be called Android” and “whether Xiaomi can be trusted,” with jokes about calling the Switch 2 a "Chinese tablet" flying around too.
Xiaomi to raise prices on some phones and tablets in stages starting in September — “Xiaomi 17T Pro” up by 20,000 yen
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
Might be worth getting a warranty on it.
Take your affiliate-blog repost threads ("アフィカス", slang for spammy blog-repost accounts) to the Chat board, News Speed board, Smartphone board, Far East board, or International Affairs board — please.
Can a giant Chinese tablet actually play Nintendo games?
If it can't, then it's not the same thing, is it?
Is anyone actually buying these things?
Performance-wise, even at the new higher prices it's still absurd value for money.
It's aimed at people who want to play demanding games without spending much on hardware.
It literally is Android.
I thought Huawei was the only one that wasn't Android 🤔
They call it "Xiaomi HyperOS" — it's Android under the hood, just heavily hacked up lol
Honestly, I'd love for someone to explain just how many parts the Switch 2 and a giant Chinese tablet actually share.
You could at least think about that much on your own.
Guess you can't answer, huh lol
So where exactly do the Switch 2 and a giant Chinese tablet overlap? lol
Fine, I'll make an exception and tell you — mainly the memory and the NAND chips.
And there you go, debunked.
Why, are you lying?
That's just going to make people trust it even less.
You're the one lying here.
I see — by that logic the iPad's a Chinese tablet too lol
??
If the memory and NAND ("NADA" in the original — typo) are the same as in a Chinese tablet, then what happened to the whole "it's a Chinese tablet" argument?
Why'd you switch your ID?
Something inconvenient come up?
My wifi dropped.
It's some heavily modded Android from an untrustworthy Chinese company — who knows what it's doing behind the scenes lol
If Google Play runs on it, that means Google actually checked it over and found no problems, right?
If you don't even trust Google, go use a flip phone.
So, can you actually play Nintendo games on a Chinese tablet or not?
Why'd you switch your ID?
Then it'd be worthless.
Can't answer, huh.
Guess that confirms it — no Nintendo games after all.
It's customized, so it's not Android itself.
And there you go, debunked.
There's no such thing as uncustomized Android.
Even Pixel phones run their own custom tweaks.
With Xiaomi it feels like you get to pick your flavor of value: POCO for SoC gaming performance, Redmi for camera/everyday use, or the flagship Xiaomi line if you want everything.
Background and Key Points
Xiaomi is the world’s third-largest smartphone maker by shipments and has sold phones in Japan since 2019 through SoftBank and MVNO carriers, building its reputation on high-spec hardware at budget prices — the exact value proposition now threatened by the “17T Pro” hike. Android itself is Google’s open-source OS (AOSP); any manufacturer, Samsung and Sony included, builds a custom skin on top of it and must pass Google’s certification to bundle Google Play and Google Mobile Services. Xiaomi’s skin is called HyperOS (formerly MIUI). The price increases being reported are tied to rising global memory-chip costs and yen weakness hitting imported electronics broadly — iPhones are going up for the same reasons — not to anything specific to Chinese manufacturing.
The thread didn’t really engage with the price hike; it drifted into a decades-old prejudice that “Chinese-brand” equals “knockoff,” with posters arguing over whether Xiaomi phones even qualify as genuine Android, and a tangent comparing the Nintendo Switch 2 to a “Chinese tablet” because they share memory and NAND suppliers.
What’s likely getting confused: the real precedent for a Chinese phone maker actually losing Android is Huawei, which was cut off from Google’s licensed services by US sanctions in 2019 and has since moved to the non-Android HarmonyOS NEXT — a case one poster gestures at but the thread never nails down. Xiaomi has no such restriction. Also, sharing commodity memory or NAND suppliers (SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron) with another device says nothing about software lineage, which undercuts the thread’s “Switch 2 is a Chinese tablet” bit as a category error rather than a real technical claim.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (“Geha”)) thread “[Sad News] Chinese Smartphones See Major Price Hikes.”
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