Starting last week, owners of the Mi 3 (China Unicom/China Telecom) and the Mi 4 could upgrade their OS to the new MIUI 6. Today, Xiaomi announced in MIUI’s official forums that closed-beta tests for the MIUI 6 with the Mi 3 China Mobile Edition will start this week. Users can sign up for the “closed beta fanclub” online. Based on the progress with the other phones, we can expect open beta tests after two weeks around Mid-Autumn.

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A few days ago, sign-ups for participation in the MIUI 6’s beta tests started. Unfortunately, only the China Unicom and China Telecom versions of the Mi 3 and Mi 4 will be used. Many users flooded MIUI’s forums and Weibo account complaining that they “abandoning” their old users by not including Mi 2/2S as well as the Mi 3 China Mobile Edition. Some even went as far as accusing Xiaomi of not letting the Mi 2/2S and Mi 3 China Mobile Edition support the MIUI 6.

In response to these claims, MIUI published a statement in their forums saying that they will not test the Mi 2/2S first due to having a limited number of developers and they will gradually do beta tests using other phones as well. In other words, the OS of the Mi 2/2S could definitely be upgraded to MIUI 6. It is just a matter of time.

Furthermore, MIUI said that they will announce plans to test other phones on August 16. 

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