Cuban mobile phone users mostly prefer Korean-made Samsung devices, followed by Chinese Xiaomi and US-based Apple, according to a traffic analysis conducted by CiberCuba.
the; study of the traffic generated by the platform CiberCuba during the last 30 days it made it possible to determine which are the most used mobile phones in Cuba.
Following recent news reporting of the blocking in Cuba of the mobile phones of Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi, Which referred Cuban users on social media, CiberCuba conducted an analysis of the access statistics to our website of users from Cuba, which released that 42.9% of users who visit this platform are owners of mobile devices from Korean manufacturer Samsung. The show covered a total of 737,000 unique users who accessed CiberCuba in the last 30 days.
Second in the preferences of Cubans is the Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi, mobile devices use 14.57% on the island, according to the analysis made by this editorial from a sample of users who access the networks and the website of this medium.
Apple with 13.84% is the third best established brand among Cuban mobile phone users, while Motorola, Huawei, Alcatel and LG share almost the remaining 25% of Cuban mobile device customers.
The study found that Cuban users prefer the Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime mobile phone model (with almost 28,000 users), while the second most popular is the Motorola moto E5 play (with more than 22,000). In third place of preferences of Cuban mobile phone buyers is the Apple iPhone (with 16 thousand users), followed by the Apple iPhone 7 Plus (with more than 14 thousand) and the Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 (with 13,618 users) .
“Xiaomi has begun blocking some of its latest smartphones in Cuban territory. The same goes for the people of Syria, who have begun to receive a message on their smartphones that makes it impossible for them to use the device,” he said. secure this Thursday the specialized page Xiaomi Addicts.
The news caused concern among many Cuban Internet users who saw that their mobile devices from the Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi were suffering from blockages on their smartphones, located in Cuba through their geolocation applications.
The site reported that “at the moment it is unknown whether these are just isolated cases or whether Xiaomi will start blocking all devices found in these regions, especially in Cuba where a large number of the population has a mobile phone. company “.
After the first reports of the strange event, mobile phone workshops in Cuba have been filled with customers to unlock their phones, said the owner of one of these businesses in Havana in CiberCuba, Who assured that the locks started this week, although it is possible to unlock and that they will not be blocked again if a “good job” is done.
“Xiaomi sold them for a specific country, but if you go to another country their operating system has a service that when you connect it to the Internet locates the computer and sees that it is where it is not and here it crashes “.
“For example, the Chinese versions of Xiaomi that sold them only in China when they were taken out of here this happens. It’s up to them. They should still have a list of banned countries, including Cuba.” has abounded.
Everything indicates that the cause of these blockages responds to the application of the terms and conditions of Xiaomi, which are explained on its website.
Xiaomi’s terms and conditions clearly state that “the Agreement and all Products are subject to applicable export control laws, including, but not limited to, U.S. export control laws and its own. Jurisdiction of the Customer The Customer may not export any Product purchased from the Seller to any country, territory or region if prohibited by export control laws.The prohibited countries and territories include Cuba, Iran, Syria, Korea North, Sudan and the Crimean region “.
According to programmer and youtuber Erich J. García Cruz, to get your phones back up and running users only need to perform five actions:
1. Do not upgrade the system.
2. Install firewalls and prohibit system upgrades.
3. Verify that the mobile is global, not regional.
4. Go to a workshop to unlock the bootloader.
5. Think of the global custom flash ROM.