The brand Xiaomi is almost a newcomer to the business of smartphones; began selling its first smart phone in the year 2011. This Asian manufacturer became known as the “Chinese iPhone”. One of their best sellers, especially in China and Southeast Asian models is the Xiaomi Redmi Note. It is a phablet with a 5.5-inch screen that integrates a processor Mediatek. MT6592 eightfold core of 1.7 GHz the Redmi Note is also on sale in Europe. Tecnews, half Taiwanese Internet, just discovered that the Xiaomi Note Redmi sends data automatically, without knowledge of the mobile business, a hosted server in China.
A user named Kenny Li, has published his case in a Hong Kong forum Mobile belonging to IMA group. There Li tells how her Xiaomi Redmi Note has been transferring data to a server with an IP address registered in China. These data were photos stored in the storage means, and in addition to all kinds of messages, including text messages (SMS). Sending data was automated and occurred when the smartphone was within the range of a network Wi-Fi. The data transmission is also operated through connection 3G, although at a slower speed. Service cloud storage manufacturer, MiCloud, was off in the meantime. Li was doing various tests to try to solve the problem, without success.
In the end, Li could not prevent your mobile follow secretly sent data to server based in China, even installing a new firmware on the phablet. Neither succeeded accessing the file system as root, using the technique of rooting. The range of the IP addresses corresponding to a location in Beijing (China); the owner of the IP is Eternal Forest and Communication Tech.Co.Ltd website owner is CNNIC.cn, reports Tecnews. CNNIC is responsible for matters related to Internet within the Ministry of Information of the government agency’s Republic of China, located in Zhongguancun, a district of Beijing.
Xiaomi is very popular in its home country, while just overtake Apple snatching second place among manufacturers of smartphones. In China, Xioami accounts for 21 percent market share of smartphones as sales value, while that Apple has 16 percent, according to the latest Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, which collects data from January to May 2014. Xiaomi is stalking Samsung, which is the first in the list with a 23 percent share. Part of the new customers Xiaomi mobile users are old Samsung (17 percent), 18 percent of consumers were previously Nokia , and another 21 percent comes from the other five major local brands ( Huawei, ZTE, Lenovo , CoolPad and Oppo).
Xiaomi Smartphone accused of sending secret data to Chinese servers
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