The beginning of the year is being very busy for Xiaomi users who are watching how the Chinese firm is moving forward to with MIUI software layer, both with its latest update to version 7.1 as the future it will be based on the new Android 6.0 Marshmallow and it is already beginning to be released. Of course, in time for a limited number of smartphones and only for those who signed up by the end of December to become a beta tester of the new system update.
As we told you a while ago, Xiaomi had decided to skip updates to MIUI 7 based on Android 5.0 Lollipop to go directly to the new Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Thus already we knew the intention of the company to get an update based on this system in early 2016, after the arrival last week of MIUI 7.1 to a large number of devices, now it’s the turn of the beta testers to enjoy MIUI 7 based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, as the company today has released beta ROMs of this new MIUI 7 in China. So far the Chinese have released ROMS for the following smartphones: Mi 3 W/C, Mi 4 3G/4G, Mi Note.
Already at the time Xiaomi announced that it was developing MIUI 7 based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow for these devices, which would update earlier this year. In the forum of the company Xiaomi has announced the availability for beta tester of the new software, it has also ensured that this version of the layer will be available to other users in the near future, once the beta tester have done its work and reported to the typical errors that often have these versions of the system.
The new version of MIUI 7 is the 6.1.7 and with this announcement the Asian company has released a couple of images that show the major improvements in this new version based on the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow version. Naturally, this new software layer will enjoy the benefits of the new version of Google operating system, among them granting individual permissions for each app, as well as native support for fingerprint readers by the operating system. These improvements Xiaomi added to other exclusives news of MIUI interface, regardless of which features the new Android. The conclusion to be drawn from this if you are not beta tester is that MIUI 7 for Android 6.0 is just around the corner, and it will be very soon available also with the release of this beta.