Everything you need to know about Miui7 event held today at New Delhi Here's the entire rundown of the MIUI 7 features that th...
Everything you need to know about Miui7 event held today at New Delhi
Here's the entire rundown of the MIUI 7 features that the new version will bring to almost all Xiaomi devices in the coming months.
The OTA update(Beta) will start rolling out from August 24 and all current Xiaomi smartphones including the Redmi 1s, Redmi 2, Redmi Note 3G, Note 4G, Mi4i and Mi4 will be upgraded to the new MIUI 7 version. Now, it's time to look at the entire list of MIUI 7 features:
1. Performance Improvement:
Xiaomi promises up to 30% faster response rate with the new MIUI 7 version. The OS is now optimized to load data and app animation in parallel which means, you get noticeable and surprising fast UI response.
2. Better Battery Life:
Xiaomi claims that the new MIUI 7 version improves battery life up to 25% by restricting background data and GPS usage and aligning CPU wake up times. This means you get up to 3 hours of extended usage every day.
3. MUSE:
MUSE allows MIUI users to create Themes with preset animations and content without any need for complex coding. It's pretty easy to build you own theme with MUSE, which means we should see more user created themes for the OS in the near future.
4. Opera Max:
MIUI 7 has partnered with Opera Max to save data on the OS. Max compresses browser and in-app media saving up to 50% of data usage. It will be available by September 2015 in India, China, Brasil, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and The Philippines.
5. Visual IVR (India specific):
You no longer have to listen to long voice prompts, thanks to Interactive Visual Response (IVR). So, you can skip to the important part with the provided menu while booking air tickets or banking. The feature is currently supported by over 50 Indian partners.
6. Showtime:
You can keep a short video loop on your Xiaomi smartphone for a contact (you can send it to other contacts too) running MIUI 7 with the help of Showtime. The feature will roll out in the coming months.
7. Auto DND:
When you sleep with the Xiaomi Mi Band, it will automatically switch your phone to DND (Do Not Disturb) so that you can sleep in peace.
8. Baby Album:
With the help of facial recognition, MIUI automatically creates a Baby Album from your camera roll. You can even set your daily lock screen sourced from your baby album.
9. XXL Text:
You can now resize the font on MIUI 7 with ease. XXLText can adjust conversational layouts and line brakes to provide greater readability. You can adjust not just messages but almost everything into a larger font.
10. Child Mode:
In MIUI 7, you can limit access to personal info like emails, messages, and restrict the apps that can be used in child mode. You can approve the allowed apps from the settings itself.
11. Indian Languages:
Miui7 supports 10 Indian languages – Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Assamese, and Punjabi.
Apart from these amazing features, there's a feature namely Identify an OTP (one time password) that lets you easily copy and paste the OTP from SMS. You get default themes, which even includes one targeted at the female crowd.
Xiaomi also confirmed that the MIUI 7 will adopt the same Android OS that is already present in the Xiaomi smartphone.
So, for the Mi 4i that is running on MIUI 6 based on Android 5.0 (Lollipop), the MIUI 7 will also be based on Lollipop, for other smartphones that are running on MIUI 6 based on Android 4.4 (KitKat), the new MIUI 7 will also be based on KitKat.
The MIUI 7 developer beta ROM will be available for testers for Redmi 1s, Redmi 2, Mi 4i, Mi 3, Mi 4, Redmi Note 3G and Redmi Note 4G starting from August 24th.
MIUI 7 Performance Test
30% faster system response — that's the improvement we've made under the hood for #MIUI7. We'll be rolling out MIUI 7 in the developer ROMs starting 24th August. Meanwhile, take a look at the comparison between MIUI 6 and MIUI 7 on a Mi 4.
Posted by Mi India on Thursday, 20 August 2015
