A new leak may have revealed some major MIUI 13 features
Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority
TL; DR
- A new leak may have given us some MIUI 13 features.
- The Android skin will supposedly get virtual RAM support and more.
Xiaomi’s MIUI Android skin has come a long way from its iOS-inspired days and has grown into a respectable skin. We no doubt expect the MIUI 13 to debut later this year, and a leaker may have just given us a few details.
Weibo tipster Bald Panda (h / t: NotebookCheck) has claimed that Xiaomi is working on several features for the new MIUI version. See the machine-translated screenshot below.
Perhaps the most notable feature is the “Memory Fusion Technology,” which sounds just like the Vivo and Oppo virtual RAM feature. We suspect that this allows device owners to use a few gigabytes of their memory as virtual RAM or a paging file.
This is also not the first time that we have heard of a virtual RAM function for Xiaomi devices, as evidence of a “memory expansion” function was discovered earlier this year. That said, it would be handy for phones with a small amount of proper RAM, or for people juggling a bunch of apps at once.
The leaker also claims that, according to a machine-translated excerpt, we’re getting “new gameplay in small windowed mode”. This supposedly means the ability to play games in floating app windows. Other alleged functions of MIUI 13 include new desktop icons, a “layered rendering system” and new animation / sound / touch effects.
A start date is not yet known, but we hope that Xiaomi will deliver a well-optimized, sophisticated MIUI update for all devices. After all, that inconsistency was one of our main complaints about the Android skin earlier this year.
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