At its grand event in China today, Xiaomi unveiled the 15 and 15 Pro flagship smartphones, and it also introduced the latest version of its Android skin: HyperOS 2.
It introduces three “key technological innovations” to devices sold in China – HyperCore, HyperConnect and HyperAI. Together, these should work to provide “fresh, innovative experiences across core functionality, cross-device smart connectivity, and AI interactions,” whatever that means.
HyperOS 2 features a new scheduler as well as improved memory and I/O resource management, a reworked rendering pipeline, and “continued technological breakthroughs in Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 5G” to “guarantee a network connection in unsupported scenarios.” Comes with “. spots”.
You get a new “movie-like” lock screen based on AI, dynamic wallpapers created by AI, “visual upgrades and optimized content” for “more and richer widgets”, new and smoother animations, and a new home screen layout. 3D weather representation in the weather app.
You can control your phone from your tablet in a windows interface, and it has a cross-device clipboard, as well as support for cross-device video recording.
Of course there are many more AI features, like AI magic painting (think sketch-to-image), AI voice recognition with text conversion in real time during recording and automatic summarization afterwards, AI writing tools (text creation, summarization , error correction, and polishing), AI translation for meetings, calls, and videos with real-time bilingual subtitles and simultaneous interpretation, and AI anti-fraud to identify fraudulent calls or face-swapping videos.
By the way, all this only applies to Chinese devices, as mentioned in the rollout timeline below. The first update will be released in November for the Xiaomi 14 family, Xiaomi Mix Fold 4 and Mix Flip, Redmi K70 series and Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro 12.4.
In December, the update will spread to the Xiaomi 13 line, Mix Fold 3, Civi 4 Pro, Redmi K60 family, Redmi Turbo 3 and Redmi Note 14 devices, as well as the Xiaomi Pad 6 line and Redmi Pad family. More devices will get the update in the first half of next year. Again, all this only applies to Chinese devices. Xiaomi has not yet introduced the international version of HyperOS 2. Hopefully this will happen soon and bring an update timeline for devices sold outside China.
