
Unlike most modern smartphones, the H3 has a removable back cover and battery. If you have an alternative translation or explanation then please leave a comment!) Cases (Thanks to Mitch from Hackvana PCBs for helping translate the phrases. China's home grown product on the world stage? "Rice" (alternatively, Millet) is the "mi" from Xiaomi, and is maybe also intended to evoke feelings of wholesomeness. Translated, I think the slogan means something like "Grand Chinese products", "Rice spreading to the four corners of the earth". 米 at the start of 米传天下 is the same "mi" in Xiaomi. 华 at the start of 华夏精品 is the same "hua" in Huawei. This slogan is repeated in a few other places. The text on the front reads 华夏精品 米传天下 (Huáxià jīngpǐn mǐ chuán tiānxià). The logo on the headphones looked kind of familiar: I won't be plugging the charger in, after watching Ken Shirriff's excellent USB charger teardown that demonstrated how noisy and dangerous cheap chargers can be. My Huami H3 came in a retail box with a faux-fabric finish.Ī lot of accessories for $34! A spare battery, headphones, and a USB charger. I think that's a different Huami completely though.) Unboxing (There is another little-known company called Huami Technology (安徽华米) who produced Xiaomi's FitBit-esque wrist band. Noone seems likely to think they're buying a Huawei or a Xiaomi here. I don't know if it really erodes the major companies' reputations. Certainly a Western trademark lawyer would! I think this is actually a bit creative though. It's easy to condemn opportunistic copy-pasting of Huawei and Xiaomi's logos. The "Huami" logo even mashes together the typography of the Huawei and Xiaomi logos: "Mi" comes from Xiaomi, the hottest Chinese smartphone company and the third largest smartphone maker in the world. "Hua" comes from Huawei, the largest telecommunications company in the world. So what's the deal with this Huami phone? Can you really buy a decent smartphone for $34US? What's in a name? (Candid pics of Mingtong market courtesy of the Hacdc wiki.) This is where the $12US cell phones used in Project Fernvale were sourced.

Some are fakes of mainstream brands, and some have their own brands. In Mingtong you can buy a huge array of smartphones, feature phones, smart watches, and accessories.

My hotel was a few doors down from the Mingtong Digital Communications Market, aka "the dodgy cell phone market". I picked it up in the electronics capital of the world - Shenzhen, China.
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It's sold with a 5 inch screen, Bluetooth, WiFi, 4G cell connectivity, Android 4.4 and an 8 core processor.

This Huami H3 smartphone cost me $34US (210RMB) in January. (Speak Russian? Vlad translated this post!)
