Xiaomi gained market share by pricing its phones competitively, but cut corners by only releasing security updates quarterly (instead of monthly).<p><a href="https://www.mi.com/global/service/support/security-update-1.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.mi.com/global/service/support/security-update-1....</a><p>The only exception is Xiaomi's Android One "A" line, which is now discontinued.
WAY cheaper and still do everything you want a modern mobile phone to do.<p>This could have been a race between Xiaomi and Huawai but trump decided against that.