Xiaomi Mi3 spotted with Android 6.0 Marshmallow


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We are all waiting eagerly for a sweet taste of Marshmallow to land on our phones, but it could be Xiaomi Mi3 owners who get the first bite.

Over on Weibo photos of the previous Xiaomi Mi3 flagship have been published running Android 6.0, this is pretty exciting for Xiaomi owners as Google only officially released the ROM a short while ago.

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The Xiaomi Mi3 is still a great phone and gets a lot of attention from the development world so it comes as not much of a shock that it could be one of the first to get the latest Android build. As far as we can tell this is still an experimental build and isn’t available to everyone yet, so we will have to wait for a public release to be made available to say how well it runs.

If the Mi3 is the first, then which Android phone will be next? Will be be another Xiaomi device, or will OnePlus get in on the action?

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28 Comments

  1. Tajwar
    October 7, 2015

    Now I can keep my mi3 for another year or so

    • Gary
      October 8, 2015

      You’re absolutely right! Mine’s still working great. Raw pictures with Mi2Raw, 4K video with cinema FV 1.31. Great build quality and superb screen. Even if I buy another phone I’ll keep it.

      • Tajwar
        October 8, 2015

        Have it like 1 year and 10 months and it fell on the ground flat on it’s face like a thousand times and gets away with just scratches.
        And the display quality is still superb like the battery but I don’t need to tell u cause u know already

        • Gary
          October 8, 2015

          +1 I expect a lot on the new MI5. Wait and see !

          • Tajwar
            October 8, 2015

            If the mi5 is going to be great I might grab one and maybe keep te mi3 as a backup or second device.

  2. Boyan
    October 7, 2015

    Hey, Google, if you read this, stop making white background and black text. Or if you want it that badly, just give the rest of the world the option to invert those.

    • Chico Migraña
      October 7, 2015

      That’s true ! Damn white, it hurts, just like on Pc

      • G'n'T
        October 7, 2015

        I am pretty sure battery drain would be less on a black screen with white text also. Just saying…

        • Joel Adames
          October 7, 2015

          Also, easier to read at bed time, without disturbing your mate. 🙂

    • Dels
      October 7, 2015

      there used to be black mode in marshmallow dev preview, but it’s gone…btw you can use layers manager on playstore and install dark/black layer such as synergy or inversion

  3. gaborgabor
    October 7, 2015

    I heard gossip about note2 and Marshmallow also…

  4. pratyush997
    October 7, 2015

    Ivan to the rescue!

  5. Tajwar
    October 7, 2015

    Now I can keep my mi3 for another year or so

    • Guest
      October 8, 2015

      You’re absolutely right! Mine’s still working great. Raw pictures with Mi2Raw, 4K video with cinema FV 1.31. Great build quality and superb screen. Even if I buy another phone I’ll keep it.

    • Tajwar
      October 8, 2015

      Have it like 1 year and 10 months and it fell on the ground flat on it’s face like a thousand times and gets away with just scratches.
      And the display quality is still superb like the battery but I don’t need to tell u cause u know already

    • Guest
      October 8, 2015

      +1 I expect a lot on the new MI5. Wait and see !

    • Tajwar
      October 8, 2015

      If the mi5 is going to be great I might grab one and maybe keep te mi3 as a backup or second device.

  6. Boyan
    October 7, 2015

    Hey, Google, if you read this, stop making white background and black text. Or if you want it that badly, just give the rest of the world the option to invert those.

    • Ricardo A.
      October 7, 2015

      That’s true ! Damn white, it hurts, just like on Pc

    • G'n'T
      October 7, 2015

      I am pretty sure battery drain would be less on a black screen with white text also. Just saying…

    • Joel Adames
      October 8, 2015

      Also, easier to read at bed time, without disturbing your mate. 🙂

    • Dels
      October 8, 2015

      there used to be black mode in marshmallow dev preview, but it’s gone…btw you can use layers manager on playstore and install dark/black layer such as synergy or inversion

  7. GBR2
    October 7, 2015

    I heard gossip about note2 and Marshmallow also…

  8. pratyush997
    October 7, 2015

    Ivan to the rescue!

  9. Nightmare
    October 8, 2015

    Hoping that Ivan will work soon also on Mi2/S.

    • bitti06
      October 8, 2015

      His current plan (as written on his weibo account) is to get android 6 on mi3/4 first and after that he’ll try to get it running on on mi2/s

  10. Nightmare
    October 8, 2015

    Hoping that Ivan will work soon also on Mi2/S.

    • bitti06
      October 8, 2015

      His current plan (as written on his weibo account) is to get android 6 on mi3/4 first and after that he’ll try to get it running on on mi2/s