Caught off guard, Xiaomi has quietly done a few big things in the past two days.
The Xiaomi 14 Ultra was released in the Japanese market yesterday, and the 16+512GB version is priced at 199,900 yen, which is about 9,274 yuan.
Compared with the price of 6999 in China, the Japanese market is still quite expensive.
The router production line, the follow-up will focus on the Xiaomi brand, and there may not be any more Redmi routers.
Weibo, the head of the smart hardware market in Xiaomi China
There is one more thing that everyone is more concerned about, the system.
Yesterday, Xiaomi Surging OS officially released an announcement on the system version adjustment in the Xiaomi community.
The content is heavy:
The new "Beta" mode will replace the current "Development Edition" mode.
There are only two versions of The Future Surging OS, one is the "beta version" for early beta users, and the other is the "official version" for all users.
The "development version" we are familiar with is completely gone.
Orange Friday I've been looking forward to every week...
However, officials said that the new beta version has two "advantages".
One is seamless upgrades.
Upgrades between beta and production versions do not require data purging, and beta releases can also receive upgrade pushes from the production version.
If you look at the upgrade link diagram, you should feel that the beta version and the official version are interlocked.
Every beta user will receive a release update the next time it arrives.
Production users, on the other hand, have the option to update the beta version or wait for the next production version at the start of the next beta phase.
The old flatbread is finally about to land, a good thing.
Another advantage is that the pace is more flexible.
The beta version will be flexibly recruited and released according to the actual project needs, and the release cadence will no longer be fixed.
But look at it from another angle.
Xiaomi is flexible, but users are a little more unknown.
Whether or not this can be considered a "merit", I think it's really hard to say.
So the question is, when will the new model start to be implemented?
Officially, the development version of the existing model is expected to be officially stopped in August 2024, and the specific models are as follows.
But don't rush to jump out of the car.
Because the official has confirmed, the development version will be supported in the future, and the development version will be upgraded to the official version without clearing the data, so there is no need to worry about not being able to update normally at that time.
But there is one caveat.
Even if you are eligible for the development version now, it does not mean that you will be directly eligible for the beta version at that time, and you will need to reapply.
Featuring a zero.
Considering that Xiaomi has been stuck relatively dead on all kinds of qualifications recently, so...
The first beta recruitment is expected in the fourth quarter, so be prepared for the check.
Friends who follow Xiaomi should have the impression that MIUI has already made some changes in the system update mode before.
MIUI, which came from the Internet, can be said to be far ahead of the curve in its enthusiasm for system updates.
At first, in addition to the regular stable version and the development version every Friday, MIUI also had a big killer - the development version of the beta version.
From Monday to Thursday, there are new features every day, and bugs can be solved as soon as possible.
Because of this operation, MIUI has achieved a double harvest of word-of-mouth and popularity.
But also know that this model requires a lot of time and effort.
For Xiaomi, which has more and more models, it is not a simple matter.
In addition, since MIUI 12, user feedback on smoothness and stability has increased significantly.
It's too late to optimize the stable version, how can you bother to take care of so many system versions of so many models.
So in April 2022, Xiaomi announced that it would adjust the MIUI system update mode.
Monday to Thursday daily update of the "development version of the beta version",Gone。
The stable version has also been renamed to the "official version".
April 2022 announcement
At that time, the announcement had already shown the trend of merging the two main lines of code in the development version and the official version.
New model announced in April 2022
But, in fact, there are some signs that these two sequences are still playing their own games.
The new features of the official version may be earlier than the development version, and the bugs that the development version does not have may have...
There are also users who feel that although some models are still updating the development version, the feeling of "fever" is long gone.
All that remains, a cold couplet...
In this way, yesterday The Paper OS announced another adjustment plan, which is very necessary.
Concentrate to do things better.
It depends on how Xiaomi implements it next.
As is customary to have a major version each year, the first beta recruitment in Q4 should coincide with the release of The Surging OS 2.0.
The big version solves the big problem, and it is reasonable.
Do you think Xiaomi's system experience this time can turn things around?