Author: Jonjo

It has been a while since we heard from POCO, a Xiaomi sub-brand that gained autonomy early this year but has remained on Xiaomi’s supply chain. A couple of weeks ago, the brand manager confirmed that the brand is still new to start making its smartphone design and would be relying on the parent company for now. That confirmed why we have seen so many rebadged Redmi phones launching under the POCO moniker. Anuj Sharma, POCO executive, also confirmed that the POCO F2 Pro isn’t the direct successor of the popular Pocophone F1, hinting at the possible unveiling of the…

Although Xiaomi is yet to confirm the launch date of its new Redmi Note 9 5G phone, it’s already certain the device is making its official debut soon in China. The device recently appeared on TENAA with a model number M2007J22C, where the last letter “C” hints it’s for the Chinese market. And yesterday, the device appeared on Singapore’s IMDA certification website and was listed as M2007J22G, hinting at Global availability. Today, the same device has also bagged FCC certification, and from the IMEI, a tipster who reported about the global availability yesterday, Mukul Sharma, was able to decode some…

The MIUI 12 rollout is far from completion, with so many users still anxiously waiting for the update. A couple of days ago, the global users of the Mi 8 started receiving the update, which was later rolled out to the Pro models. And now, the stable MIUI 12 update for Mi 8 and Mi 8 Pro has been released for the Russian users. However, the update, for now, is still in the beta phase, and as such, only limited users are going to receive it, but we expect the public rollout to commence soon. The update, meanwhile, is arriving…

Xiaomi released the stable MIUI 12 update for the Redmi Note 7 a couple of weeks ago, but the update is yet to arrive for all eligible users. The reason is to avoid fatal causality, just like what happened when the Android 10 update started rolling out to Mi A2 Lite a couple of months, due to some bugs that were present in the build. However, the update is now arriving for everyone, meaning no serious bug was found on the build and will soon appear on all eligible units. It will arrive with a version number, MIUI 12.0.1.0 QFGMIXM,…

Xiaomi, according to our last report, will confirm the official launch date of the Redmi Note 9 5G series tomorrow. The device is said to debut on November 24 in China but could be making its global debut shortly after the Chinese launch. One of the Redmi Note 9 5G series has been spotted on Singapore’s IMDA certification listing, which no doubt confirms the global availability of the device. The device is listed as M2007J22G, where the last letter “G” stands for Global. The model number suggests it’s the same device as the Redmi Note 9 5G that appeared on…