Author: Adimorah Jude

Xiaomi is currently pushing a new update to the Redmi Note 8 units in Europe, a few days after it released a stable update for the device in China. And while the device in China supposedly received its third MIUI 12 build, European users are just receiving their second build, which will bring the much anticipated MIUI 12 features to more devices. As usual, the stable update for Redmi Note 8 in Europe is still in the beta phase. Only a few people will receive the update, and if their feedback is good enough, the public rollout will commence in…

Xiaomi is now sending out a new stable update to the Redmi Note 9 Pro Max users. The device, which is a higher version of the Note 9 Pro, last received an update months ago. It was the MIUI 12 update, which arrived as MIUI 12.0.1.0 QJXINXM. Now, the device joins the long list of Xiaomi phones that have received the November patch as a new update starts arriving for the device users in India. Unfortunately, not everyone is going to receive the new stable Redmi Note 9 Pro Max update for now. Only a select few will receive the…

It looks like Xiaomi has started pushing the second MIUI 12 based Android 10 update to more Redmi Note 8 users globally. The first build had a bug that limited the rollout and made it impossible for those on V11.0.11.0 to receive the update. They were also not allowed to flash the recovery ROM via the updater app, which resulted in the quick release of a fixed build. Well, it didn’t fix the bug, and after some time, was pulled. Those on the affected build started receiving a stable MIUI 11 build and has remained there since. However, according to…

The Redmi 9 units in Russia are now adopting the much-anticipated MIUI 12 update, just in time before the MIUI 12.5 gets underway. Xiaomi has suspended the development of MIUI 12, with engineers now focusing on the next iteration, which will focus on optimization and stability. It’s unclear when the update is going to start seeding, at least to beta testers, but we hope to find out very soon.  Meanwhile, while we wait on the MIUI 12.5, Redmi 9 MIUI 12 update in Russia is now seeding. The update comes with a version number, MIUI 12.0.1.0 QJCRUXM, alongside the November…

Qualcomm once again has upgraded its 600 series SoC by introducing a successor of the Snapdragon 675, which debuted some months ago. The new chipset is dubbed Snapdragon 678 and is built on an 11nm node. It boasts of an improved CPU and GPU performance over the predecessor but still makes use of the Kryo 460 cores and Adreno 612 GPU, but there has been a tweak. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 SoC makes use of an improved Kryo 460 SoC. It has two power-efficient cores clocked at 2.2GHz, which is an improvement over the 2.0GHz cores on the Snapdragon 675.…