Author: Jonjo

In a few days, Google will officially release the stable Android 12. It will first seed to Pixel owners before making its way to other OEMs’ smartphones. Ahead of that, Xiaomi has already set plans to be among the few phone makers to push stable Android 12 to its eligible phones. The company has already started rolling out the new Android OS based on its Android skin to closed beta testers in China ahead of the stable release. And going by a recent report, the Redmi Note 10 5G/POCO M3 Pro 5G, Mi 10 Lite, Mi 10i / Mi 10T…

Smartphone OEMs have made massive improvements in their phone’s hardware in the last couple of years. That has made some people reluctant to change their phones yearly as before. It’s now more important than ever that smartphone makers increase the number of years they support their phones. Google and OnePlus are already committed to providing three Android OS updates to their phones. Samsung has also done the same, and Xiaomi will inevitably join the pack.  The Chinese company is slowly moving to provide its phones with three Android OS upgrades in a four-year support period. They first communicated their plans…

Redmi Note 9 4G has been waiting for both Android 11 and MIUI 12.5 for months now. The latter started seeding a couple of weeks ago but was delayed probably due to a bug. It seems they have been able to resolve the issues, and has started pushing the update again. However, the device is receiving both Android 11 and MIUI 12.5 simultaneously this time. As usual, it’s a stable beta release, meaning only a few selected users will receive the update for preview. The Redmi Note 9 4G / Redmi 9T MIUI 12.5 update is seeding with a version…

Xiaomi has a reputation for supporting its phones for at least three years. The company is on the verge of pushing the support period to four years, starting with the recently released Xiaomi 11T and 11T Pro. And with more phones been released regularly, it becomes difficult to fairly support all of them. Hence, after some time, older phones are dropped from the development version of internal testing. Meanwhile, the development version of internal testing is exclusive to Chinese users. Only phones running Chinese ROM are allowed to join. This group of testers gets updates weekly, which most times comes…

Xiaomi Mi 10 is the latest device to start pushing the MIUI 12.5 update. It’s the global models that are receiving the update after the Chinese release a couple of weeks ago. The rollout is live in Australia, and it seems to be a public rollout, meaning the update will appear on all eligible phones soon. The MIUI 12.5 update has been rolling out for months now starting, with the models in China. Of course, the Chinese version of the Mi 10 has already received the update, hinting at imminent global rollout. It took some time for the update to…