After US Mobile began selling a few models through its website, it seemed like Xiaomi smartphones had finally reached the U.S. market. However, just one day after these reports surfaced, the phones were suddently pulled from the site.
Now, the Chinese smartphone maker is speaking out against them even being featured there in the first placed.
"Recent reports have indicated that Xiaomi products will be available in the U.S. Xiaomi only offers a small selection of accessories for sale in the U.S. through Mi.com. There are no plans to sell smartphones through any authorized distributors in the U.S. US Mobile is not authorized to sell Xiaomi products in the U.S.," the company wrote Tech Times in an email.
After learning that US Mobile was not authorized to sell Xiaomi's smartphones, it appears that T-Mobile isn't too happy. According to PC Mag, T-Mobile will now make sure to put phones the mobile virtual network carrier (which uses T-Mobile's network) plans to sell through extra certification processes.
A look at US Mobile's website reveals that the newly-added Xiaomi and Meizu smartphones have since been removed.
The virtual carrier began selling Xiaomi's Redmi 2, Mi 3 and Mi 4i and Meizu's Note 2, which came with a one-year warranty and were unlocked before they were pulled.
The only downside to the affordable phones was that they did not support LTE high-speed connections; however, both smartphone makers reportedly have plans to create options that would support LTE in the future.
It seems that Xiaomi was not yet ready to make its big entrance into the U.S. market.
US Mobile has not yet commented.
