Google, at I/O 2017 unveiled Google Lens with the ability to identify objects and, and at I/O 2018 it announced that Lens will be available directly in the camera app on supported devices from various OEMs including LG, Motorola, Xiaomi, HMD/Nokia and OnePlus. Continue reading “Xiaomi integrates Google Lens into MIUI Camera App”
Xiaomi launched the Mi Men’s Sports Shoes 2 in India under Mi Crowdfunding last month, and the company started shipping the shoes a few days ago. As per the company, these are created using Uni-Moulding process, are Shock-absorbent, have anti-slip design and are durable for machine wash. Check out the photo gallery of the Dark Grey version. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Sports Shoes 2 Photo Gallery”
Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 7 smartphone along with Redmi Note 7 Pro on February 28 in India. We already brought you the Redmi Note 7 Pro camera samples and review and now we have the Redmi Note 7 Indian retail variant in Ruby Red color, check out the unboxing and first impressions of the device, Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Unboxing and First Impressions”
Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 7 and Redmi Note 7 Pro smartphones running on MIUI 10.2 based on Android 9.0 (Pie) in India on 28th February. The smartphone duo went on sale in India recently, and the company claimed that it sold over 2 lakh units within minutes during first Redmi Note 7 sale on 6th March. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 and Redmi Note 7 Pro MIUI 10 Beta testing to start soon”
Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 7 in India last month starting Rs 9,999, powered by an Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 64-bit 14nm mobile platform based on FinFET technology with Adreno 512 GPU that has support for Open GL ES 3.2, Open CL 2.0, Vulkan graphics and Hexagon 680 DSP that includes Hexagon Vector extensions (HVX), designed to support Caffe2 and Tensorflow for machine learning and image processing using the Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine SDK. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Benchmarks – Snapdragon 660 14nm Mobile Platform”
Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 7 along with Redmi Note 7 Pro on February 28 in India. Redmi Note 7 duo pack a 6.3-inch Full HD+ waterdrop notch display with 1.95mm narrow bezels, 81.37% screen-to-body ratio and run on MIUI 10 on top of latest Android 9.0 (Pie). Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 MIUI 10.2.7.0 update rolls out in India to enhance low light camera performance”
Xiaomi’s sub-brand POCO launched POCO F1 running on Android 8.1 (Oreo) with a skin on top, called MIUI For POCO. The smartphone has been in news since the launch for good reasons except for a few issues, but the company has been very responsive towards addressing the issues and kept device updated as well. The device received MIUI 10 Global Stable update back in November which was based on Android Oreo but later in December, Xiaomi rolled out Android Pie based MIUI 10 Stable update for the smartphone. Continue reading “POCO F1 MIUI 10.2.3.0 stable update starts rolling out [Download Link]”
At the MIUI 9 Global launch, Xiaomi highlighted the fact that even 5-year-old phones including Mi 2/2S will be supported for MIUI 9 Global Stable update but lately things are changing, probably due to many devices launched in past couple of years. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Max and Mi Max Prime will not get MIUI 11 as the company terminates software support”
Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 was amongst the best selling devices launched in 2017 in India, despite launching in 2017 it was launched with Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) and was updated to Android 7.0 (Nougat) in August 2017. Redmi Note 4 is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 mobile platform, the same processor that powers Mi A1 which received Android 9.0 (Pie) update along with Dual 4G VoLTE support couple of months ago. Xiaomi has already announced the list of smartphones eligible for Android Oreo/Pie update, but Xiaomi’s best seller from 2017 is not included in the list and now we can assume that Redmi Note 4 will not receive any Android update.
Continue reading “Get Android 9.0 Pie on Redmi Note 4 with OxygenOS 9.0 port”
Xiaomi’s MIUI is amongst the most popular android skins with more than 300 million worldwide users. MIUI is a heavy skin on top of Android, but what sets it apart from other Android skins is its feature richness and customizations. MIUI gets updated biweekly, a closed beta on every Tuesday and public beta on every Friday. Continue reading “Xiaomi adds face unlock support for locked apps”
Update – February 20, 2019: Xiaomi has opened registrations for global beta testing of Android Pie for Redmi Note 5 Pro, Redmi Note 6 Pro and Redmi S2 (Y2) smartphones on its forum. Registration is open till March 15th (Beijing Time) and ROM will roll out staring March 19th so we can expect open beta starting March-end or early April.
OEMs pre-load phones with apps to improve user experience, but not all the pre-loaded apps and features are important to all users or some users have their own preferred app for a particular task, for example, most of the users prefer Google Calendar and Keep Notes over Custom Calendar and Notes apps that come pre-installed with the device. If you use a phone running a forked version of Android like MIUI or EMUI, you must have found some apps unnecessary at some point in time. Continue reading “How to uninstall apps on Xiaomi devices without root”
Xiaomi India announced their plans to enter into payment services in collaboration with ICICI Bank and PayU back in December. The company also started registrations for beta testing in December as National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) had cleared Mi Pay for large group usage. During the launch, the company said that Mi Pay would be integrated within the Contacts, SMS, Scanner apps, as well as App Vault in MIUI and, will be available for all MIUI users soon. Continue reading “MIUI 10 Global Beta ROM brings Mi Pay app”
Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 5 Pro was amongst the best selling devices launched in 2018 but it runs on Android 8.1 (Oreo) based MIUI 10 as of now. As per an official announcement, Redmi Note 5 Pro is expected to get Android 9.0 (Pie) in Q1 2019 but the public beta testing for the MIUI Global ROM hasn’t started yet. Continue reading “Get Android 9.0 Pie on Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro with Android One Port”
Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 5 Pro was amongst the best selling devices launched in 2018 but it runs on Android 8.1 (Oreo) based MIUI 10 as of now. As per an official announcement, Redmi Note 5 Pro is expected to get Android 9.0 (Pie) in Q1 2019 but the public beta testing for the MIUI Global ROM hasn’t started yet. Continue reading “Get Android 9.0 Pie on Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro with Resurrection Remix 7”
