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"Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has just sold\u00A0150,000 units of its\u00A0latest flagship device, the Mi-3, in under 10 minutes --\u00A0using only a chat app: Tencent-owned WeChat.\r\n\r\nThe company announced that the Mi-3 sold out in 9 minutes 55 seconds on WeChat, via its\u00A0Sina Weibo official account. This partnership between Xiaomi and WeChat proves that WeChat has much potential to be an e-commerce platform -- after all the entire process, from reserving the device to purchasing it, took place within the messaging app.\r\n\r\nAs of the third quarter this year, WeChat has 272 million monthly active users.\r\n\r\nLast month, Xiaomi\u00A0unveiled its latest flagship device, the Mi-3.\u00A0The first batch of 100,000 Mi-3 phones were snapped up in 86 seconds flat.\r\n\r\nThumbnail image via\u00A0Hugo Barra / Google +"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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