Xiaomi isn’t known just for the incredibly well priced phones it sells. Another aspect that has added value to the company’s popularity is the MIUI ROM.
MIUI started off an a ROM for the Mi Phone or the first phone from Xiaomi, back in 2011. However, the ROM got so popular that more than a 100 devices from various manufacturers (other than Xiaomi) gained official MIUI support.
The current version of the ROM, version V5, is starting to get dated. That’s why Xiaomi would be launching the next iteration of the forked Android ROM this month, and surprisingly, devices as old as the Xiaomi Mi 2 and the Mi 2S would also be getting support.
The screenshot above compares how the new ROM would do when compared to V5. Quite clearly, Xiaomi has been bitten by the ‘flat UI’ bug and has designed the UI accordingly. You can’t complain, since that is what the users want; Android itself ditched the 3D UI to jump to Holo a few years back.
It’ll be interesting to see how V6 of MIUI fares, and fortunately we don’t have a lot of waiting to do to try it out!