MIUI
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MIUI developed by Xiaomi Tech
, is an aftermarket firmware for cell phones based on the open-source Android operating system
. It features a heavily-modified user interface that does away with the Android app drawer and has drawn comparisons with Apple's iOS. It includes additional functionality not found in stock Android, including toggles on the notification pull-down, new music, gallery, and camera apps, and an altered phone dialer that displays matching contacts as a user enters a number.
7.1 sources, and was initially developed in the Chinese language by Chinese startup Xiaomi. Xiaomi added a number of apps to enhance the basic framework; those include MITalk (a Blackberry Messenger
clone), MINotes, MIBackup, MIMusic, and MIGallery.
Updates are usually provided over-the-air every Friday. MIUI is then translated and ported in unofficial versions to other languages by independent developers. The list of translations can be found on MIUI official site
and MI, as stated by Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun, stands for Mobile Internet and Mission Impossible.
, which ships with MIUI pre-loaded.
Xiaomi Tech
Xiaomi Tech is a Chinese based company founded by Lei Jun in 2010. The company received a bit of coverage in mass media after it released Xiaomi Phone, a low cost smartphone in September 2011....
, is an aftermarket firmware for cell phones based on the open-source Android operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
. It features a heavily-modified user interface that does away with the Android app drawer and has drawn comparisons with Apple's iOS. It includes additional functionality not found in stock Android, including toggles on the notification pull-down, new music, gallery, and camera apps, and an altered phone dialer that displays matching contacts as a user enters a number.
Development
MIUI is based on Android 2.3.7 and CyanogenModCyanogenMod
CyanogenMod is an after-market replacement for the firmware of over sixty cell phones and Internet tablets. Based on the Android mobile computer operating system, it offers features and options not found in the official firmware distributed by vendors of these devices.Features supported by...
7.1 sources, and was initially developed in the Chinese language by Chinese startup Xiaomi. Xiaomi added a number of apps to enhance the basic framework; those include MITalk (a Blackberry Messenger
Blackberry Messenger
BlackBerry Messenger is a proprietary Internet-based instant messenger application included on BlackBerry devices which allows messaging between BlackBerry users.It was developed by Research In Motion , maker of the BlackBerry device...
clone), MINotes, MIBackup, MIMusic, and MIGallery.
Updates are usually provided over-the-air every Friday. MIUI is then translated and ported in unofficial versions to other languages by independent developers. The list of translations can be found on MIUI official site
Name
MIUI is made up of two parts, MI and UI, where UI stands for User InterfaceUser interface
The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...
and MI, as stated by Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun, stands for Mobile Internet and Mission Impossible.
Criticisms
The modified operating system has been criticized for being similar to iOS. . Due to the fact that MIUI is developed in China, some features that are not relevant to the Chinese market, such as WiMax support, are unavailable on MIUI, and without access to the source code, it is not possible for 3rd parties to easily add this support.Xiaomi Phone
Xiaomi released a smartphone, called the Xiaomi PhoneXiaomi Phone
Xiaomi Phone is a mobile phone designed by the Xiaomi Tech Company, which was created by Lei Jun, CEO of Kingsoft. Xiaomi is a high-end smartphone, using a Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 as its CPU and an Adreno 220 as its GPU, but its price is less than half the cost of a typical dual-core CPU smartphone...
, which ships with MIUI pre-loaded.