XIAOMI SAYS IT SHIPPED MORE THAN 10 MILLION SMARTPHONES LAST MONTH

September was a big month for Xiaomi, chief executive officer Lei Jun said the Chinese smartphone maker shipped more than 10 million smartphones last month across all the markets where it operates. 

The company also reached a major milestone in India, roughly three years later after entering the nation, Xiaomi's vice president and India head Manu Kumar Jain said that the company had shipped more than 25 million smartphones in the country. 

Xiaomi also said that last month the company had sold more than one million handsets in just two days, a major improvement over its performance in the country last year when it took 18 days to sell one million smartphones. 

Xiaomi has always been known as a company that plays very aggressively, offering some of the best hardware at the price point, the company has appeared more focused in the recent months. Xiaomi recently launched the Mi Mix 2 – a bezel-less smartphone  – and the Mi A1; the company's first Android One smartphone for markets like India. 

The recent growth for the company will help Xiaomi better compete with Chinese smartphone maker Huawei, which recently posted better sales than Apple. The company shipped north of 73 million smartphones in the first two quarters of this year, averaging more than 12 million handset shipments in a month. According to marketing research firm Strategy Analytics, Huawei shipped 38.4 million handsets in Q2 2017, while Oppo shipped 29.5 million handsets. In comparison, Xiaomi had shipped 23.16 million handsets in the quarter that ended in June.