Miui Evolution
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After nearly two months of silent work, the MIUI team has finally released its newly redesigned interface. The design philosophy behind the UI was to make things smaller, faster and more refined.
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After nearly two months of silent work, the MIUI team has finally released its newly redesigned interface. The design philosophy behind the UI was to make things smaller, faster and more refined.
After nearly two months of silent work, the MIUI team has finally released its newly redesigned interface. The design philosophy behind the UI was to make things smaller, faster and more refined. While the new UI enhancements are visible in nearly every corner of the OS, the MIUI team spent most their time focusing on the new lock screen, Home screen, desktop widgets and the default MIUI theme.
The biggest noticeable change in the latest version of MIUI is the addition of a few dozen newly designed widgets. The MIUI team has put together a collection of widgets for the clock, music player, tools and even photo frames. It’s probably the largest collection of widgets we’ve seen outside an HTC Sense ROM in quite some time. For a closer look at the MIUI UI evolution, take a peek at the image gallery.
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Reply Steve Jobs 07/18/11 9:38 AM Thumb upThumb down -7We will be releasing a modify version of our latest iTunes to facilitate future updates of this rom.
Reply andr0id23 07/18/11 9:42 AM Thumb upThumb down +5Ive used MIUI in the past, but didn’t really like it. Despite the obvious iPhoneesque look-n-feel, which I am not a fan of, the biggest disappointment for me was that every app I downloaded had an icon on my homescreen, and I couldn’t remove what I didn’t want to see. I don’t know if that has changed, and I don’t expect to stay with MIUI, but it sounds like it has come a long way and is pretty popular, so I think ill give it another look. My Incredible is just one of my spare phones, so nothing to lose by checking it out.
Reply Chris 07/18/11 10:00 AM Thumb upThumb down 0Loved miui on my nexus one, waiting for WiMax to be added for my nexus s 4G then I will be going back.
Reply Chuck 07/18/11 10:24 AM Thumb upThumb down +1I love the UI but have never been able to stick with it because it’s been to buggy/laggy. Have they fixed that?
Reply drew 07/18/11 10:25 AM Thumb upThumb down 0I have the newest version from the MIUI.us team but I can’t find all the cool widgets on display here. Anyone know how to get them?
Reply JD 07/18/11 10:40 AM Thumb upThumb down -4I have never used it. I’n not a fan of the iphone-ish interface, and from what I can see, they put interface before usability. I’ll stick with Cyanogenmod.
Reply Seth 07/18/11 10:41 AM Thumb upThumb down 0Using MIUI now on my Dinc. Not on the latest version because it has some bugs I don’t want to deal with. Missing a few CM7 things like quiet hours, swipe to remove notifications, scrolling widgets and a few other odds and ends. Overall though it has a nice coherent feel to it and it runs smoothly with excellent battery life. Hopefully this Friday’s release will fix the bugs and I’ll be able to update.
Reply Timothy Gault 07/18/11 10:42 AM Thumb upThumb down 0Looks promising. I have used MIUI on my EVO 4G in the past and have absolutely loved it. I am currently running Stock Rooted, but I would often choose MIUI over CM6 or 7.
Reply Jeremy 07/18/11 11:11 AM Thumb upThumb down 0I couldn’t get past the iPhone look or the lack of an app drawer. I must say that the 2 days I had it on my OG Droid it rant GREAT. I’m running GPA16 now and am loving it!
Remember, though, that you could always replace your launcher app with something like ADW EX, LauncherPro, or GO Launcher. GO is pretty damn nice, I must say, and their app drawer is probably the most functional of any launcher I’ve used – including SenseUI 3.0.
Reply Ourfear 07/18/11 11:21 AM Thumb upThumb down +2I’ve used MIUI for a long while now and i talk regularly with XJ one of the EN devs.
The latest rendition is amazing, smooth and sleek with so many built in features that you dont need additional apps for things like a music player or an SMS manager, it even has a built in FTP client to link to your PC.
Originally i wasn’t sure about the iPhone esq look of the MIUI ROM, bu twith so many themes and icon sets available to download for free, im now using a very non iPhone looking ROM with all the speed my Desire was originally created for.
Reply Michael 07/18/11 11:22 AM Thumb upThumb down 0I ran MIUI on my droid D1 somewhat recently, It breathed new life in to my device, but there was a bug, no usb connection for files and adb. So I ran that way for a while, it was fast but i was disatisfied. I moved to the us fork with gingerbread. I ran than and it was substantially buggier, ate battery like no ones business and my camera hardly worked. I was fed up enough that I purchased rom manager so I could easily download/install a load of kernels/roms to try them all. I started with Chevy’s simply stunning with a slightly overclocked kernel and have never wanted to stray. I want my phone to be able to make and answer phone calls no matter what, make it a 24 hours without charging and gentle use, uncomplicated desktops with a few nice looking widgets/pictures, consumer mail, twitter, news weather and social network feeds, podcasts, the occasional game is optional.
Reply 10lament 07/18/11 11:33 AM Thumb upThumb down 0Loved 1.7.1 until it bogged down my OG Droid. Supposedly TreyM fixed it with 1.7.15.1, but I installed it last night and it was still a hot mess. The camera app (both – he included the original) still locked up and it was just slow.
Reply Brian 07/18/11 11:44 AM Thumb upThumb down +3For those complaining about the lack of an app drawer and the iPhone-ish look that is the point. A redefinition of Android. Just consider it a hybrid UI experience and feel good in the fact that Android can look any way it wants but still be the dynamic OS we’ve all come to love to use.
Reply AAApo 07/18/11 1:19 PM Thumb upThumb down 0This rom is what is making me love android every day and I jus can’t use a stock android now that I’ve tried this. If there are some old miui user like me they’ll know that the rom has really evolved and now there is 0 lags. It’
Reply @neidlinger 07/18/11 2:07 PM Thumb upThumb down +1the MD5SUM of the HTC Glacier (MyTouch4G) is bad. It’ll give you the black screen of death. But luckily it didn’t ruin my phone.
Reply The few, the proud, the iPhone owners 07/18/11 8:22 PM Thumb upThumb down +2I got the ORIGINAL iconic iOS rom on my iPhone 4 and im lovin it. You know, original is always better than copycat-SALAMIui!!!!
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