Author: Adimorah Jude

It seems Xiaomi has intentionally left two of its most popular phones on MIUI 11: Redmi Note 9S/9 Pro and Redmi Note 8. The former, which answers Redmi Note 9 Pro in some markets, debuted early this year and has seen attention moved from the latter to what is the latest Redmi Note series. However, both phones have few things in common, most notably, they still run MIUI 11. One would expect the duo to be among the early adopters of the MIUI 12 build, but it seems Xiaomi is prioritizing other phones. A few weeks ago, the Redmi Note…

There has been a report making rounds on the internet about the possible arrival of Android 10 on the Redmi Note 8 today. It looks certain now that we are not going to see the update, at least not today. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time the update is rumored to start seeding but doesn’t show up. Back in May, Alvis Tse, the general manager of Xiaomi Indonesia, and head of POCO Global alleged the Redmi Note 8 will receive Android 10 in July. Well, we’re in August, and it doesn’t seem the update will be arriving today either, as…

Towards the tail end of last year, Xiaomi released the Mi Note 10, a rebadged Mi CC9 Pro, but exclusive for the Chinese users. It was the first device to hit the shelves to rocking the 108MP sensor and runs Android 9 based on MIUI 11 outside-of-the-box. The device was going to receive two OS updates, having debuted under the Mi-series. And as expected, it picked the Android 10 update a couple of months ago, which arrived with stable MIUI 11 build, and now, the global stable MIUI 12 update for Mi Note 10 has been released. The stable MIUI…

A couple of days ago, Xiaomi bumped the Mi A2 Lite security patch level to July and has now started rolling out that of August. That’s typical of Xiaomi, rolling out a timely security patch update, at least, to the device on its Android One program. And for whatever reason, why the July patch arrived late, they’re making that up. It’s exactly nine days since the device received the current build, and now, the August security patch update for Mi A2 Lite starts arriving. The update, as usual, is for system optimization and stability, as well as fixing those annoying…

Moving back to May 2019, when Xiaomi released the Mi Mix 3 5G, those who bought the device would never imagine that they’d beg for an update. Even the monthly security patch, which the company rolls out almost every day, hardly arrives for this device. And the height of it all, the device still runs MIUI 10 based on Android 10 – the pre-installed operating system.  Imagine spending over 500 bucks on a phone that doesn’t receive any form of support. It made the users start asking questions, and luckily, some publications started advocating for an update to be released…