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Xiaomi Box Ships with Tuxera File Systems
BEIJING and HELSINKI, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Ensures High Performance and Full Interoperability to User Content
Tuxera Inc., the market leader in interoperable technology announced today a
partnership with Xiaomi, one of the fastest growing Chinese smartphone manufacturers. Last
year, Xiaomi announced acquisition of the digital content provider Duokan that resulted in
a brand new product line called Xiaomi Box, which closely integrates with Xiaomi
smartphones establishing a multi-device platform. The Android based set-top boxes ship
Tuxera NTFS and FAT for multi-streaming, excellent performance, the most comprehensive
interoperability and reliability.
Xiaomi has been in the spotlight with the impressive products and sales figures.
Nearly three years after founding, Xiaomi has raised $347 million in total funds, and is
valued at $4 billion. In 2012, Xiaomi sold a total of 7.19 million Xiaomi Phones; the
revenue amounted to 12.6 billion RMB (about USD 2 billion). The company first built its
brand by moderately priced high-end smartphones and now aims at providing devices for a
comprehensive home entertainment ecosystem that would span across phones and set-top
boxes.
Xiaomi Box can stream media from phone, tablet, or laptop over Wi-Fi network, bringing
movies or music onto the big-screens. It has won over the reviewers with its exceptional
multimedia experience, price-to-quality ratio and compatibility with the latest
technologies such as DLNA, Miracast protocols.
"Tuxera file system solutions allow Xiaomi Box users to download, stream, record and
play-back the content with no limits in recording size or length. To ensure ultimate user
experience, it is invaluable that our product is fail-safe and offers plug-and-play
interoperability with all kind of external storages from the cheapest memory sticks to the
latest USB hard drives," said Wang Chuan, Xiaomi co-founder.
Recent study from Research & Markets
[http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/v5g7zs/product ] shows that the demand for
set-top boxes is growing fast in China: 42 million set-top boxes were shipped in 2011 and
the analysts are expecting the total number to exceed 90 million in 2015. Most of the
set-top-boxes on the market are equipped with media player functionality making it
possible to show pictures, play music and video from portable USB storages. More and more
devices have also the possibility to record video over USB or SD interface to an internal
or external storage. Tuxera cooperates with the leading chipset manufacturers to offer the
most reliable and widely deployed NTFS, exFAT, FAT and HFS+ file systems for portable
media players and personal video recorder functionality.
"We are excited to be working with Xiaomi, which is committed to product innovation
and customer-facing integration. Over the past few years, our investments in China have
increased substantially. With the fastest growing technology industry in the world, China
is one of our main focus markets. We are actively working together with the customers
across the country, so it is crucial for us to have a strong local presence and motivated,
expert team on the site," added Yang Zhiheng, Country Manager at Tuxera.
About Xiaomi: Beijing Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd., was founded by Lei Jun, the famous
angel investor. Xiaomi is a Mobile Internet company focuses on the research and
development of high-end smartphones. The company is formed by the handset team (Xiaomi
Phones), MIUI (the Android Skin), MiTalk, Xiaomi.com (the E-commerce platform), and
Duokan. The core leader team is included: Lei Jun - founder, Chairman and CEO; Lin Bin -
the co-founder and president; Li Wanqiang, Zhou Guangping, Huang Jiangji, Liu De, Hong
Feng, Wang Chuan - co-founders and vice presidents.
About Tuxera: Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music,
pictures, videos and other content to be ported across mobiles, tablets, home
entertainment, consumer, industrial or any other electronics. Tuxera's industry-standard
file system solutions for Android, Linux, Mac OS X and other platforms have hundreds of
millions of installations. Close collaboration with industry leaders ensures reliable
compatibility and helps to set high standard in performance, low power use for embedded
and mobile solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.tuxera.com
Contact
Karolina Mosiadz
PR & Marketing
karolina@tuxera.com
Tuxera
CONTACT: Media Contact: +358-45-330-2957
Xiaomi Box Ships with Tuxera File Systems
BEIJING and HELSINKI, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Ensures High Performance and Full Interoperability to User Content
Tuxera Inc., the market leader in interoperable technology announced today a
partnership with Xiaomi, one of the fastest growing Chinese smartphone manufacturers. Last
year, Xiaomi announced acquisition of the digital content provider Duokan that resulted in
a brand new product line called Xiaomi Box, which closely integrates with Xiaomi
smartphones establishing a multi-device platform. The Android based set-top boxes ship
Tuxera NTFS and FAT for multi-streaming, excellent performance, the most comprehensive
interoperability and reliability.
Xiaomi has been in the spotlight with the impressive products and sales figures.
Nearly three years after founding, Xiaomi has raised $347 million in total funds, and is
valued at $4 billion. In 2012, Xiaomi sold a total of 7.19 million Xiaomi Phones; the
revenue amounted to 12.6 billion RMB (about USD 2 billion). The company first built its
brand by moderately priced high-end smartphones and now aims at providing devices for a
comprehensive home entertainment ecosystem that would span across phones and set-top
boxes.
Xiaomi Box can stream media from phone, tablet, or laptop over Wi-Fi network, bringing
movies or music onto the big-screens. It has won over the reviewers with its exceptional
multimedia experience, price-to-quality ratio and compatibility with the latest
technologies such as DLNA, Miracast protocols.
"Tuxera file system solutions allow Xiaomi Box users to download, stream, record and
play-back the content with no limits in recording size or length. To ensure ultimate user
experience, it is invaluable that our product is fail-safe and offers plug-and-play
interoperability with all kind of external storages from the cheapest memory sticks to the
latest USB hard drives," said Wang Chuan, Xiaomi co-founder.
Recent study from Research & Markets
[http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/v5g7zs/product ] shows that the demand for
set-top boxes is growing fast in China: 42 million set-top boxes were shipped in 2011 and
the analysts are expecting the total number to exceed 90 million in 2015. Most of the
set-top-boxes on the market are equipped with media player functionality making it
possible to show pictures, play music and video from portable USB storages. More and more
devices have also the possibility to record video over USB or SD interface to an internal
or external storage. Tuxera cooperates with the leading chipset manufacturers to offer the
most reliable and widely deployed NTFS, exFAT, FAT and HFS+ file systems for portable
media players and personal video recorder functionality.
"We are excited to be working with Xiaomi, which is committed to product innovation
and customer-facing integration. Over the past few years, our investments in China have
increased substantially. With the fastest growing technology industry in the world, China
is one of our main focus markets. We are actively working together with the customers
across the country, so it is crucial for us to have a strong local presence and motivated,
expert team on the site," added Yang Zhiheng, Country Manager at Tuxera.
About Xiaomi: Beijing Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd., was founded by Lei Jun, the famous
angel investor. Xiaomi is a Mobile Internet company focuses on the research and
development of high-end smartphones. The company is formed by the handset team (Xiaomi
Phones), MIUI (the Android Skin), MiTalk, Xiaomi.com (the E-commerce platform), and
Duokan. The core leader team is included: Lei Jun - founder, Chairman and CEO; Lin Bin -
the co-founder and president; Li Wanqiang, Zhou Guangping, Huang Jiangji, Liu De, Hong
Feng, Wang Chuan - co-founders and vice presidents.
About Tuxera: Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music,
pictures, videos and other content to be ported across mobiles, tablets, home
entertainment, consumer, industrial or any other electronics. Tuxera's industry-standard
file system solutions for Android, Linux, Mac OS X and other platforms have hundreds of
millions of installations. Close collaboration with industry leaders ensures reliable
compatibility and helps to set high standard in performance, low power use for embedded
and mobile solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.tuxera.com
Contact
Karolina Mosiadz
PR & Marketing
karolina@tuxera.com
Tuxera
CONTACT: Media Contact: +358-45-330-2957