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.

    • puppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      11 months ago

      All major laptops and most of the smartphones (including the iPhone) are made in China. Are you worried about CCP backdoors in those devices?

      • Bizarroland@kbin.social
        9·
        11 months ago

        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

          • key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            So not only do the backdoors in Huawei’s equipment reported on in 2020 allow them to spy on network traffic for China, but the NSA might have implants on Huawei’s backend that would allow them to also get a copy of that information. That sounds like all the more reason to avoid Huawei and go the GrapheneOS route. Not sure why you think any of that is contradicting.

    • Sasori323@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      41·
      11 months ago

      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…