Hey. I was just looking for curiosity the official china xiaomi store. And I saw the Redmi Note 13 Pro+, it seems to be a great phone with 12gb of RAM and 512GB of storage, 200MP camera (I know that doesn’t determine how good the photos will be) for just 2099 yuans which is approximately 250€, and I was wondering, is it even possible to buy this china only phones for such a great price and import them to europe?
The Redmi Note 13 Pro+ is actually more “westernized” than the rest of the K70 series (the name that it recieves in china) as it even has a western name and I swear I have seen youtube channels who have this phone. (Though if this is doable and someone wants to try, if you look at the K70 Pro you will see an option for 24GB of RAM and 1TB of storage for 4099 yuans which is an amazing price for those specs).
I know aliexpress exists and I was able to find the phone but for prices a bit higher and the best price I was able to find was on alibaba for around 210€, I would consider buying on aliexpress but unless someone convinces me of the contrary I wouldn’t buy on Alibaba.
Are you not concerned with potential CCP backdoors?
All major laptops and most of the smartphones (including the iPhone) are made in China. Are you worried about CCP backdoors in those devices?
What do you think the possibility is that this fear of a Chinese back door in every bit of technology is just fear mongering designed to control what people purchase?
I mean, we have at our disposal the ability to say you can’t import technology from China anymore and yet America does not do that, but then American tech companies say OMG back door China bad and people eat that shit up.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying there isn’t a back door. We have found the ones in the $14 Android boxes, but I am saying that it’s not in every single piece of tech that gets shipped to America from China
Oh sure. But also a rugged individualism and going against the grain attitude would also be a means of controlling what you buy.
Marketing being the most powerful and arguably the most evil thing ever created by humans can do just about anything in making someone act or believe a thing.
I mean somewhat, yeah. I also don’t like the idea of my own government having access to my electronics either, but companies like Huawei have been caught having them in their devices. In the US I can put something like GrapheneOS on my phone and at least hope it’s more secure.
This Reuters article and NPR podcast transcript from 2014 directly contradicts what you said.
I don’t know what is that but I suppose it’s related to “spying from china government”. So I will use a custom ROM anyways so it’s not a concern…
It’s cute that you think the software is the only problem. Good luck tho!
if the hardware is compromised, then most phones are since they are all manufactured in China, even Apple’s.
