Earlier, Xiaomi released its Android Nougat firmware for the Xiaomi Mi5 smartphone; however, the company also confirmed other handsets that will receive the said OS update through a Weibo post by a company representative.
The upgrade list of smartphones was confirmed by Xiaomi's MiUI Operations Manager on Weibo, a popular Chinese microblogging website. In the post, the other Xiaomi handsets which will be updated into the latest Android Nougat update are Xiaomi Mi 4c, Xiaomi 4s, Xiaomi Note, Xiaomi Mi 5s, Xiaomi M Note 2, Xiaomi Mi Mix and Xiaomi Max.
According to Xiaomi, the MIUI Android 7.0 Nougat beta testing is already underway. Although the company's representative did not indicate more information on when the company will roll out the update, it could likely be released sometime in the first quarter of 2017.
The update of Android 7.0 Nougat will feature multi-window to run two applications spontaneously, and an inline notification feature to reply to text messages from the notification panel. The said feature is compatible with other apps such as Telegram Messenger, Hike Messenger, and Whats-app, among others.
Also, Xiaomi's MiUI 8-based Android Marshmallow had brought an array of new features including in-call IVR and the ability to group messages and copy OTPs promptly.
