Xiaomi is secretly working on a brand new mobile operating system, called MIOS. The latter would be used in the future on the Chinese manufacturer’s smartphones, but especially in its connected electric cars.
It has now been several months since the first information about MIOS was revealed. At the end of last year, we learned that Xiaomi was preparing its own operating system, and that it was already at an Alpha versionthat is, it was soon ready to be rolled out in beta to early devices.
Leaker @That_Kartikey revealed on Twitter that Xiaomi had just acquired the domain name “mios.cn” in Chinawhich confirms that the Chinese manufacturer plans to launch an operating system that would bear this name.
MIOS would arrive first in Xiaomi cars
According to information from the leaker, it is to be expected that this operating system will first arrive in the manufacturer’s electric cars, before being deployed on smartphones in the future. As a reminder, Xiaomi has been preparing an electric car for a few years now, which has already been spotted in China on many occasions. Renderings had even revealed what the vehicle should look like.
This operating system would then be used for the vehicle’s infotainment system, and we imagine that Xiaomi will take the same approach as Huawei with HarmonyOS to make it compatible with different devices, including smartphones. MIUI would therefore give way to MIOS over the next few years.
Another leaker, Digital Chat Station, revealed to him that MIOS would be “compatible” with AOSP, i.e. it would still support Android applications. For the moment, it is not known if this means that MIOS will always be based on the Android Open Source Program, as HarmonyOS was until now, or if it will really be a completely new operating system. exploitation. This is particularly the case of the new HarmonyOS NEXT which was recently unveiled, and which is no longer based on Google’s AOSP.
We imagine that Xiaomi could follow the same path as Huawei by keeping AOSP for the first versions of MIOS, to facilitate the transition between Android and a new operating system.
