MIUI 7 5.10.8 Beta Review and how it works on Xiaomi Mi Pad

 Xiaomi has now lifted the lid on theBeta version its latest Android-based operating system – MIUI 7 for the Mi Pad. While perhaps not as drastic of an update as some users were hoping for, there are a number of useful features to get to grips with. Let’s delve on in.

Mi Push which was pushed in to Mi devices on this weekly build is not working on Mi Pad ! I mean its not visible anywhere.

Talking about MIUI 7 (based on Lollipop) is not for Mi Pad and there are less than 10% chances that lollipop will show up for Mi Pad ..

We don't have any kernel sources still and our customs roms are still buggy...

Opening up the announcement, Xiaomi has gone big with customization for MIUI 7 but on Mi Pad there are very little changes .The word give or take suits it very much . There’s also a new MUSE engine for designers that can be used to create new MIUI themes, apparently without the need for complex coding but this feature is not available on the Xiaomi MI Pad.

If you love to change your wallpapers, Xiaomi’s international wallpaper market should have you covered, with 10 pre-sets available on a daily rotation for now, and more to come. Although this is only available in India right now but i have to say it again its not on the Mi Pad

Moving on from customization, Xiaomi seems to have made a big effort to further optimize its customized Android OS, promising faster app loading times, a more responsive feel and longer battery life this time around but you can see that there is nothing new for the Mi pad 

Start-up times have been reduced by lumping the data loading and animation parts into a parallel process. MIUI 7 also appears to feature a new CPU acceleration feature, which boosts CPU speeds for important tasks. I’d imagine this was already part of previous MIUI builds, but perhaps there’s a new governor, although details are a little thin right now.

MIUI 7 also now aligns CPU wake-ups from various apps to take place at once, rather than at their own discretion. This allows for longer sleep periods in between wake-ups and therefore a longer stand-by battery life which can be seen on the pad developer's Rom.

The end result is that the system should respond around 10 percent faster than before, while battery life has been extended by around 5 percent for typical usage. Xiaomi says that this could make its phones last up to 3 hours longer before needing a charge but this goes 30 min for me on Mi Pad . The video below certainly shows some performance improvements over MIUI 6.

In terms of new features, MIUI 7 adds in a XXL text function to improve readability for a huge range of apps. There’s a new photo album feature to group precious baby pictures into a single album, which can also be linked to your lockscreen background for rolling images. Xiaomi has also introduced a Child Mode, which limits access to emails and messages and offers parents control over apps through a settings menu. One particularly nifty feature is the automatic do-not-disturb option, which uses Xiaomi’s Mi Band to detect when you’re sleeping and sets your phone into DND mode.

Xiaomi is big in India these days and MIUI 7 has a couple of specific features for the country. Along with support for 10 local language variations but the developer Rom of MI pad does not have language supports and variations , MIUI 7 also includes the Visual IVR feature that was promised a while back. Visual IVR allows users to see voice prompt options when calling certain services, to help speed through those automated call centers. The system works with more than 50 Indian partners, including Citibank, ICICI bank, Spicejet, Indigo, Tata Sky, HeroMotoCorp, and more but this feature is still not on Mi pad which is kind of very depressing.

Xiaomi has also partnered up with Opera Max to save on mobile data consumption, by using a system wide data compression technology and optimization of audio and video streaming. The data savings apply to any application, including popular services such as YouTube, Instagram, Line, Lazada, among others, and can result in data savings of around 20 percent but it works only on paper but not on the actual device or maybe its still in the beta for Mi pad and hope that Xiaomi will fix this.

The Data Saver service has been available in China for more than a year, but is now also heading to India, Brasil, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines in September 2015.

MIUI 7 weekly updates are not up to the mark for Mi Pad and still it is useless I hope Xiaomi will come up with some stable updates soon.

Rather than any huge new features, MIUI 7 is a combination of lots of little tweaks and improvements designed to make certain tasks easier. However, there appear to be mixed initial impressions coming from MIUI users.

MIUI 7 update is a waste for us if it is based on KitKat !
Everyone know's that MIUI is not greater than Stock Rom of Google and they must stop thinking that they are any kind of software giants because there MIUI is still based on Android and you cannot be greater than the source from where you are being fed  so please stop thinking that your MIUI is better than google's Android ! 

MIUI 7 for Mi Pad 1.5/5