Xiaomi sticks to 'affordable' theme

Company rolls out slew of new products to take on competition in the home market

An affordable smartphone, a Windows tablet, an air purifier and a 15-minute emotional soul-searching speech by CEO Lei June were Xiaomi Corp's final offerings for this year.

At a product launch event on Tuesday, Lei, 46, introduced Xiaomi's first smartphone with fingerprint scanning capability and a tablet equipped with an Intel Corp processor and Microsoft Corp's latest Windows 10 operating system.