At its big event in China today, Xiaomi unveiled the 15 And 15 Pro flagship smartphones and also presented the latest version of its Android skin: HyperOS 2.
This introduces three “core technology innovations” for devices sold in China: HyperCore, HyperConnect and HyperAI. Together these should work to deliver a “fresh, cutting-edge experience in fundamental functionality, smart device connectivity and AI interactions,” whatever that means.
HyperOS 2 comes with a new scheduler, as well as improved memory and I/O resource management, a revamped rendering pipeline, and “continued technology breakthroughs in Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 5G” for “network connection guarantee in all scenarios without blind spots.”
You’ll somehow get a new “movie-like” lock screen based on AI, AI-generated dynamic wallpapers, a new home screen layout with “visual upgrades and custom content” for “more and richer widgets”, new and smoother animations and a new 3D weather view in the Weather app.
You can control your phone from your tablet in a windowed interface, and there’s a multi-device clipboard, as well as cross-device video recording support.
Of course, there are many more AI features, such as AI Magic Painting (think sketch-to-image), AI Voice Recognition with real-time text conversion during recording and automatic summarization afterwards, AI Writing tools (text generation, summarizing, error correction, and polishing ), AI translation for meetings, calls and videos with real-time bilingual subtitles and simultaneous translation, and AI Anti-Fraud to identify fraudulent facial exchange calls or videos.
All this only applies to Chinese devices, just like the rollout timeline below. The first updates will appear in November for the Xiaomi 14 family, Xiaomi Mix Fold 4 And Mix Flip, Redmi K70 seriesAnd Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro 12.4.
In December, the update spreads to the Xiaomi 13 line, the Mixing fold 3, Burger 4 Pro, Redmi K60 family, RedmiTurbo3And Redmi Note 14 devicesalong with the Xiaomi Pad 6 line, and the Redmi Pad family. More devices will receive the update in the first half of next year. Again, all this only applies to Chinese devices. Xiaomi has not yet revealed the international version of HyperOS 2. Hopefully that will happen soon and will bring an update timeline for devices sold outside of China.