Redmi Note owners you could be in for a nice chunk of Kitkat soon after leaked photos show MIUI V6 running on the large screen Xiaomi.
Xiaomi’s rollout of MIUI V6 has hit a few issues over the past months the most upsetting of all being that although V6 would come to most Xiaomi phones, not all device would get the update to Android 4.4 Kitkat.
Of all Xiaomi phone users, the most concerned that they would not get the later Android version were users of the older Mi2S and mid range Redmi models.
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Today’s photos from the MIUI_ROM Weibo feed are encouraging though as they show the 5.5-inch Xiaomi Redmi Note running MIUI V6 based on Android. As we can see from the images though, the phone with the update is the LTE model with a Snapdragon processor. We are still unsure if Mediatek version of the phone will receive a similar update.
I guess this is only for Redmi Note with snapdragon since afaik Mediatek doesn’t provide Android 4.4.4 for MT6592.
Another reason why I think mediatek is just plain bad.
mediatek is not giving their source code.. so no custom mods and kernels and that’s a big drawback for allot of people who like to mod things.
There’s a compromise for everything, before, there’s no choice in certain price range beside shitty version of snapdragon or mediatek both which doesn’t offer support after certain version of android but one of them have substantially better performance.
Now Qualcomm is a bit more competitive after they saw their market slowly got eroded by Mediatek. It’s now Mediatek turn if they keep limiting software support though, reaping what they sow.