Author: Adimorah Jude

The Xiaomi Mi A2 is on the last days of security support, but that hasn’t affected up-to-date security patch rollout. Xiaomi has been pushing security patch updates to the devices for months now, but as it stands, that might soon come to an end, given the Android One Policy. It promises two Android OS updates and at least three years of security support, and Mi A2 has been enjoying that for the past 33 months or so.   Xiaomi released the Mi A2 in July 2019 with Android 8.1 (Oreo). It’s a reworked Mi 6X, which has stopped receiving any form…

The MIUI+ was first introduced to the closed beta group even before MIUI 12.5 was announced. At that time, the feature was believed to be part of MIUI 13, but Xiaomi announced its plans for MIUI 12.5. As expected, MIUI+ is part of the MIUI 12.5 features and is now available for a handful of Xiaomi phones. However, only Chinese ROM users are enjoying that unless you’re running Xiaomi.EU ROM. Xiaomi first rolled out the feature as Screen Combo to the Mi 10 Ultra. It allows you to display the content of your smartphone via a PC. The connection is…

There’s a growing concern about MIUI updates, especially bugs that seem to arrive with each of them. The latest victims are the global POCO X3 NFC users. It looks like the Widevine DRM security level has been pushed back to L3 after the latest Android 11 upgrade. Of course, that’s not the only issue arising from that upgrade, but luckily, there’s a way to enable Widevine L1 on global POCO X3 NFC. For starters, Widevine is a Digital Right Management (DRM) encryption scheme used by streaming services like Netflix, Hulu’s, and others for licensing, distributing, and protecting video playbacks on…

Xiaomi is among the few smartphone brands that prioritize updates, but how they go about is disappointing. Aside from each release arriving with a series of bugs, the update doesn’t come on time. Even for their flagship phones, it’s still the same thing, and most times, the entry-level phones are always first to bag new security patch updates. Of course, unless you’re part of the closed beta group, that way, you’ll receive updates on a daily or weekly basis with new features to test in each release.  Meanwhile, only the Mi A2 Lite has received the June 2021 security patch…

Xiaomi sub-brand, POCO, is known for offering bang for the money smartphones. In March this year, the Pro version of the POCO X3 NFC from last year debuted. Both the vanilla and Pro model have the same design, but their interiors are different. The POCO X3 Pro features a Snapdragon 860 Octa-Core processor, while the X3 NFC runs a Snapdragon 732 SoC. Meanwhile, there is a surprise alteration in their camera modules. One would expect the newer variants to feature a better sensor, but it turns out the older POCO X3 NFC has a better camera shooter, at least on…