realme CEO, Madhav Sheth confirmed the existence of realme UI back in October last year and said that it will offer a near-stock Android experience, since then there have been lots of speculation about realme UI. The company finally announced the realme UI rollout schedule back in November and shared a few teasers to give users an idea of what’s coming their way. Continue reading “Realme X2 realme UI beta testing application open”
realme recently unveiled their all-new customized user interface called realme UI. Android 10 based realme UI is crafted keeping the preferences and aesthetics of young consumers. The company claims that the new UI will offer smooth performance, elegant visuals, useful features, and is well-built for an enhanced and closer to stock Android experience. The company recently started rolling out realme UI 1.0 update, and here is a list of features that realme UI brings to realme 3 Pro and realme XT. Continue reading “Android 10 based realme UI – New Features and First look on realme 3 Pro and realme XT”
Xiaomi’s sub-brand POCO launched the POCO F1 smartphone in India back in August 2018 running MIUI 9.6 Global Stable on top of Android 8.1 (Oreo) and later updated it to Android 9.0 in December 2018. The device runs MIUI 11 based on Android 9.0 as of now. Continue reading “Get Android 10 on POCO F1 with Havoc OS”
POCO is the brand that remained in news for the entire 2019 without launching any smartphones, POCO fans kept asking company and company officials about POCO F1 successor. Built on ‘Everything you need. Nothing you don’t.’ mantra, POCO F1 was a hit amongst gamers and power users. Last month, POCOPHONE Global head Alvin tweeted that the users will hear more from POCO in 2020, but later removed the tweet. There have been a lot of speculations going around POCO as a sub-brand for the last few months. Continue reading “POCO will make a comeback as independent brand in India”
Xiaomi introduced the Android One series of smartphones in collaboration with Google back in September 2017, the Android One program guarantees a couple of Android version updates with regular security patch updates. Xiaomi has been releasing a new Android One device with a focus on cameras and design every year since 2017, and as a result, we have Mi A1, Mi A2, and Mi A3 under the Android One program from Xiaomi. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi A3 Android 10 update will roll out mid-February, confirms company”
Microsoft introduced the Microsoft Launcher for Android back in 2017 and kept introducing new features such as Theme Support, Cortana Integration, Screen Time, and Cricket Score widget. Now, Microsoft Launcher preview app brings Dark Mode and Landscape Mode along with a new user interface to Microsoft Launcher. Continue reading “Microsoft Launcher Preview brings new UI, Dark Mode, Landscape Mode and various Performance Improvements”
realme CEO, Madhav Sheth confirmed the existence of realme UI back in October last year and said that it will offer a near-stock Android experience, since then there have been a lot of speculations about realme UI. The company finally announced the realme UI rollout schedule back in November and shared a few images to give users an idea of what’s coming their way. Continue reading “realme UI to feature Animated Wallpapers, Dual Earphone Connection, Screen-off Display and more [Update: New Video shows Dark Mode]”
Xiaomi announced the Mi A2 under the Android One program back in July 2018. The smartphone was launched running Android 8.1 (Oreo), and the company updated it to Android 9.0 (Pie) in December 2018. Android One devices from other brands such as HMD and Motorola have already received Android 10 update, as per the Android One policy, the Mi A2 is eligible to receive Android 10 update. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi A2 Android 10 update starts rolling out”
A couple of years back, we did a post on different versions of MIUI but a lot has changed since then. Xiaomi has been focusing on localizing the MIUI experience for different countries for the last few years and last year, the company decided to discontinue MIUI Global Beta ROM. There has been a lot of confusion amongst users regarding the MIUI 11 update roll-out status for different devices in the last couple of months, so in this post, let’s discuss different versions and stages of MIUI Global ROM. Continue reading “Different MIUI Global versions explained”
Update: Redmi 7A MIUI v11.0.2.0 has started rolling out widely after v11.0.1.0 was rolled back. You can download the recover ROM here or the OTA from V10.2.10.0 here and update it manually, if you have not received the update yet.
Continue reading “Redmi 7A finally starts receiving MIUI 11 Global Stable update”
Xiaomi’s MIUI is well-known for the customizations it offers, despite being user-friendly and customizable, people had some complaints with MIUI such as Notification Shade and MIUI Launcher. Xiaomi hugely improved the notification shade with last two iterations of MIUI but MIUI Launcher didn’t get much improvements and features. Last year, Xiaomi introduced Hidden Apps on MIUI Launcher and also introduced App Drawer on MIUI China ROM. Continue reading “MIUI Launcher gets App Share shortcut, new fingerprint unlock animation”
Xiaomi’s MIUI is amongst the popular Android UIs, but it is famous amongst users because of feature richness, customizations, and minimal design. MIUI focuses on providing a complete user experience and to achieve this, MIUI is loaded with many system apps like Dialer, Messaging, Mi File Manager, Mi Calculator, Recorder, Mi Share, Mi Music, Mi Video, and many other apps. Continue reading “Xiaomi devices will come with Google Phone as default dialer and Messages for messaging in some regions”
Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro was amongst best-selling devices last year, Xiaomi launched it running on Android Nougat, and was updated to Android 8.1 (Oreo) in June 2018. The company rolled out Android 9.0 (Pie) update to the smartphone back in May this year, the device is almost 18 months old and has already received two Android updates. It is almost certain that Xiaomi will not update the Android version on the Redmi Note 5 Pro, but in case you own a Redmi Note 5 Pro and wish to keep your device updated with the latest Android version, you may try a custom ROM. We had earlier tried Android 10 based Arrow OS on our Redmi Note 5 Pro and now, we are back with Android 10 based Pixel Experience custom ROM review. Continue reading “Get Android 10 on Redmi Note 5 Pro with Pixel Experience”
Realme has gained popularity since its inception because of value-for-money (VFM) offerings in the mid-range smartphone segment. According to the recent Counterpoint research report, the brand had about 16% industry market share in Q3 2019 in India with 6x growth compared to last year. realme smartphones started receiving updates bringing system-wide Dark Mode a couple of months ago, the company has already announced its plan to introduce realme UI in January 2020. Continue reading “realme phones to get single-click option to disable recommendations in apps”
Xiaomi announced the latest iteration of its own proprietary Android skin MIUI, dubbed MIUI 11 along with Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro back in October in India. The company claims to have rolled out MIUI 11 Global Stable update for as many as 27 devices in just 47 days in a 4-staged rollout schedule. Continue reading “Xiaomi announces MIUI 11 Global Stable Beta testing for various devices”
