The company is aiming at selling around 40 million smartphones this year

Jan 8, 2014 23:51 GMT  ·  By

Chinese mobile phone maker Xiaomi is determined to double sales of its handsets this year, and it seems that it has already made the first step towards achieving the goal.

The company has kicked off sales of its smartphones earlier this week, and it has managed to sell no less than 200,000 Hongmi smartphones in 4 minutes (3 minutes and 57 seconds, to be more precise).

The info comes from miui, but it has been confirmed by the handset vendor, which retweeted the story via its official account.

Hongmi has already proved a highly appealing device to many users out there, with similar record sales registered before, and it seems that it continues to remain popular. The fact that it has recently seen a price cut in China also helped, that’s for sure.