I personally don't use my smartphone for gaming but when I need to entertain the kids around me, it's a great help having a good phone running good games on it.

And I believe the more your smartphone is powerful, the more it will last with you without feeling the need to change for a better one. I mean, even if all the power is still not used by 99% of the actual apps, I think it may be used by most of them after 1 year, for example.

And who would say no to such a smartphone for only 310$, anyway? :p
A friend of mine told me that he have seen the older generation of this phone in Lebanon, but he can"t recall the store. Anyway, store owners are afraid from Chinese phones, I hate them indeed, they remember me with the TV dual sim e72 replica which is crap.
when will this phone be out?
NuclearVision wroteA friend of mine told me that he have seen the older generation of this phone in Lebanon, but he can"t recall the store. Anyway, store owners are afraid from Chinese phones, I hate them indeed, they remember me with the TV dual sim e72 replica which is crap.
Xiaomi is very different from unbranded copies. You have good brands in China you know, not all Chinese products are cheap replicas.
I did ask on stars communication facebook page and they told me not available ... idk if they will be available in lebanon... i think it's like the zte and lte phones ...
Keep calling Stars and ask about it,they will think lot of people want it and they will bring it ;)
6 days later
To anyone who cares the Xiaomi Mi-Two will start shipping in mid to late October so my friend is traveling in september to china
Oh! I'm definitely interested in buying one! If the price is around the 310$ they announced, plus I'll pay you for the effort of course.

EDIT: If you're still OK with that idea, I'm ready to order 2 of it.
a month later
well i went to china a the phone was not out yet
10 days later
Hey,you guys,hello,I noticed your chating on net,I'm a Chinese,I know you are Lebanese,(hah,(^o^)/ hometown of Kahlil Gibran,I like this writer.)
bad news to you,Mi 2 is too hard to buy,you know,millions Chinese youth are watting on net,all of us want defeat others and book one on official sites of Xiao Mi.Because of capacity-limits,there just have 200,000 in first batch,(second batch,3rd batch```will increase month after month).it's too hard to book as Xiao Mi 1 last year.In a word,we are the same,hope and waiting······.
The company don't try to develop as NOKIA,SAMSUNG,Iphone or other phone company,They just found 1 year,they can't produce much,so,the first step for them is,create best phone for real crazy phone-player.
Just hold on,next year,Xiao Mi 3 will come out,I guess it won't be long that the company will develop bigger and will get the ability to produce more.
Oh! Cool to read your answer George Li :)

I see, we'll wait then.
Haha,Jad,In China,it's 1.0 a.m now,I guess Lebanon haven't become dark at this moment,maybe it's evening.
I have to go to sleep,I need to host a wedding tomorrow,goodnight,hah,we may talk about Mi2 two days later after my work finished.
Thanks GLi for your response :)
The power of the internet ...

Thanks GLi.
Hah,you guys a friendly.Sorry,I don't know how to upload pics and videos of Mi 2 to this website.
Here is some informations about Mi 2

CPU: 28nm 4 CPU 1.5GHz(Qualcomn 8064, Krait).2MB Shared L2 (joint design by Xiao Mi and Qualcomn)
Game performance as good as X-BOX
2G RAM 16G or 32G ROM (free choice ,price of 32G maybe need 400 RMB plus)
Screen:1280 X 720 IPS screen, better than Iphone (Mi2 PPI 342; Ihpone 5 PPI 326; HTC One X PPI 312; Galaxy S3 PPI 306);One glass technique is uesd,make transmittanc better, narrow brim between screen and hull(3.9mm),better than Galaxy S3 (4.7mm)
Camera:(back) 8megapixels F2.0 aperture 27nm angle,special lens(5 special eyeglasses help filtering shine)
(front) 2 megapixels HD 1080p, 720pX 90frames
Battery: 2000mAh or 3100mAh (free choice)
System: MIUI based on Android 4.1 (This system design by Xiao Mi keep updating every week as microsoft,57 times till today)
Signal: 2 smart antennas if network is good enough,download speed will be 42Mbps(Mi 2 42Mbps,HTC One X 21Mbps,Galaxy S3 21Mbps,Iphone 4S 14.4Mbps)

these are basics,many special techniques are used on Mi2,but I don't know how to discribe it in English
No stores,only recivebook on official net as Mi1,Mi1s,every big city in China has customer care center.
this is the official website http://www.xiaomi.com/index.php
I saw that lots of people think Xiao Mi is a part of Foxconn,no,it's heavily wrong,Xiao Mi is Xiao Mi,not the same.Xiao Mi was found on April 6th,2010 by 3 guys who worked in top of Google,Microsof and Kingsoft before,the CEO of Xiao Mi is Lei Jun(came from Kingsoft),
600 Mi2 for open test had sold to crazy player in September,(they can change official version for free),kinds of suggestions have been put forward and solved,Official version will come out in this week.Aug.16th,2011,Mi1 released , 3，520，000 were sold till Aug.16th,2012,then Mi1S and Mi2 were released.Mi1 destroy the history and rebuilt a new time of smartphone in China,now,Mi1s keep leading the time.Mi2 will do the same as Mi1.(It's not hard to see this if you know how many guys waiting on official net day to night,hah,I'm one of them,after work,the first thing for me is open mylaptop and log in official net)
Beause of malicious competition,some bad and spin news appeared in Chinese net,some of these lie-news had been proved that they were mean to attack Xiao Mi.I hate these bad companies.
I'm gonna to share your chating to forum of Mi2,hah,let that guys know,we are not alone,many many friends are hoping and waiting.
Will you mind?If you mind this,I won't do that.(^o^)/
Eh,my friend,Mi2 won't sold on on Oct.26th,that day,the official of Xiao Mi will publish when to sold,anyway,the time to sell will in this month.
I moved the off-topic discussion here.