Chinese manufacturing giant, Xiaomi, is quite good with software updates. One of the major selling points of this company is its software support for very old phones. In some cases, Xiaomi releases updates for some smartphones that are up to five years old. Over the past few weeks, it has been releasing the development beta of MIUI 12 on top of Android 11 for its flagships. According to recent reports, the MIUI 12 (Android 11) development beta is now available for the Redmi K20.
This update is an Android cross-version upgrade, thus we expect the update package size to be large. In addition to upgrading to Android 11, it also optimized the stability of the system, optimized the fluency of the system, adds super wallpapers, optimizes the memory usage, and takes care of lagging issues.
Xiaomi phones with available but pending updates
According to Xiaomi, it is currently testing system stability for some smartphones. Due to the testing, the release of the firmware for some phones may delay a little. The affected smartphones include
- Redmi Note 7
- Xiaomi Mi 9 Pro 5G
- Redmi Note 8 Pro
- Redmi-K20 Pro
- Redmi 10X
- Redmi 10X Pro
- Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro
- Xiaomi Mi 10
- Redmi K30 Pro
- Redmi-K30 Extreme Commemorative edition
- Redmi K30 5G
- Redmi K30i 5G
- Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite (Youth Edition))
- Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro
- Redmi K30
Furthermore, due to the major version upgrade of Android, the Xiaomi Mi 10 Extreme Commemorative Edition (Ultra) has suspended the internal beta (MIUI 12 Android 11) update from yesterday. However, this device is getting the latest MIUI 12 (Android 10) stable update.
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According to Xiaomi, many of its smartphones will get this update in the coming weeks. Here are the Xiaomi phones which are gearing up to get the MIUI 12 on top of Android 11 update.
- Xiaomi Mi 9 series
- Xiaomi Mi CC9 series
- Redmi K20/K30 series
- Redmi 7/8/9 series
- Redmi-Note 7/8 series
- Redmi 10X series
- Xiaomi Mi Play series
Redmi K20 specifications
- 6.39-inch (2340 × 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 19.5:9 aspect ratio AMOLED HDR display with DCI-P3 color gamut, 103.8% NTSC Color Gamut, 600nit (HBM) / 430nit (Typ) brightness, Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection
- Octa Core (2.2GHz Dual + 1.8GHz Hexa) Snapdragon 730 Mobile Platform with Adreno 618 GPU
- 6GB LPDDR4X RAM with 64GB / 128GB (UFS 2.1) storage
- Android 9.0 (Pie) with MIUI 10
- Dual SIM (nano + nano)
- 48MP rear camera with Dual LED Flash, f/1.75 aperture, 1/2″ Sony IMX582 sensor, 0.8μm pixel size, 6P lens, 8MP 1/4″ telephoto lens with 1.12μm pixel size, f/2.4 aperture for 2x loss-less zoom, 13MP 1/3″ 124.8° ultra-wide sensor, 1.12μm pixel size, f/2.4 aperture, 4k 30 fps video recording
- 20MP front-facing camera with f/2.2 aperture, 0.8μm pixel size
- In-display fingerprint sensor
- 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
- Splashproof (P2i coating)
- Dimensions: 156.7x 74.3×8.8mm; Weight: 191g
- Dual 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz + 5GHz), Bluetooth 5, GPS + GLONASS, USB Type-C
- 4000mAh (Typical) / 3900mAh (Minimum) battery with 18W fast charging
