Update: Xiaomi’s GoPro rival Mi Camera could cost as little as 99 Yuan


A few days ago we broke news that Xiaomi were planning a GoPro style action camera and were working alongside a company in Shanghai to see it happen. Today more fuel for the rumour fire arrives.

UPDATE: The source has no updated the cost to 999 Yuan which is $163. Not as low as the first rumour but still much more affordable than a GoPro.

In try Xiaomi style, the rumoured Mi Camera (our own working title) is believed to cost as little as 99 Yuan once it hits Chinese E-commerce stores at the end of this year. To you and I that is around $17, just a fraction of the price of a GoPro or similar big name action video camera.

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As for specifications we have some more details of those too. The Mi Camera is believed to have a 138 degree wide angle lens, a must for this type of camera so you can get as much of the trail in as possible. The hardware inside the camera is though to be able to take 30 FPS 4K video or 120fps at 1080p. Videos will be stored on SD cards with the maximum supported being a huge 128GB!

This is a product I’m really looking forward to get my hands on!

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20 Comments

  1. Aditya Bhatt
    November 6, 2014

    Xiaomi is killing it !

  2. arsalan
    November 6, 2014

    Is this an ordinary digital camera or what?

    • November 6, 2014

      The one in the image is just a Hero 4 with Xiaomi logo. Hope we get more news of this device really soon (I want one for Christmas 😀 )

  3. Mangap
    November 6, 2014

    It is impossible $ 17. if the price like that I believe it will be toys cameras.. and can not compared to go pro quality.
    Yes go pro price are too high. need to be reduced by good competition

    • Gabriele Bonomo
      November 6, 2014

      probably it’s Hasbro.

  4. November 6, 2014

    whoa 999 yuan for a go pro like device kudos Xiaomi hopefully it’s really good, well Mi3 is a damn good phone already so I bet it’s really good, HTC’s re camera just died haha 😛

  5. Aditya Bhatt
    November 6, 2014

    Xiaomi is killing it !

  6. arsalan
    November 6, 2014

    Is this an ordinary digital camera or what?

    • Andi Sykes
      November 6, 2014

      The one in the image is just a Hero 4 with Xiaomi logo. Hope we get more news of this device really soon (I want one for Christmas 😀 )

    • Guest
      November 6, 2014

      It is 999 yuan in the article .Another good news,xiaomi MI2 will upgrated to Andrord L .http://www.cnbeta.com/articles/343883.htm

    • Andi Sykes
      November 6, 2014

      Yup the source has changed, going to update the article now

  7. Mangap
    November 6, 2014

    It is impossible $ 17. if the price like that I believe it will be toys cameras.. and can not compared to go pro quality.
    Yes go pro price are too high. need to be reduced by good competition

    • Gabriele Bonomo
      November 6, 2014

      probably it’s Hasbro.

  8. Micael
    November 6, 2014

    whoa 999 yuan for a go pro like device kudos Xiaomi hopefully it’s really good, well Mi3 is a damn good phone already so I bet it’s really good, HTC’s re camera just died haha 😛

  9. jauling
    November 7, 2014

    hype.

  10. jauling
    November 7, 2014

    hype.

  11. William
    September 14, 2015

    no more than $80 is a great price for the first version xiaomi yi camera, http://www.tinydeal.com/index.php?main_page=ws_search_result&keyword=xiaomi%20yi%20&px=31q98

  12. William
    September 14, 2015

    no more than $80 is a great price for the first version xiaomi yi camera, http://www.tinydeal.com/index.php?main_page=ws_search_result&keyword=xiaomi%20yi%20&px=31q98