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Is your Xiaomi smartphone with MediaTek CPU slow in receiving updates? Here's why

When we approach the purchase of a smartphone, we often look at the technical data sheet focusing on some specifications, comparing more than anything else the number that accompanies a certain characteristic. For example, let's look at how many GB of RAM are present, how many MPs the camera shoots, etc., leaving out the CPU, if not judging it based on the manufacturer.

Specifically, the main OEMs that we can find on board a smartphone are Qualcomm and MediaTek, the latter often associated with something poco value and / or in any case poco performing, yet the latest SoCs of the Taiwanese company have proven to be even more powerful than many Qualcomm-branded processors. But apart from the real potential of the CPU adopted you should take into account another aspect, at least as regards the devices of the Xiaomi brand. Redmi and POCO.

Specifically we are talking about updates, a topic that is close to the heart of many Android users, who always want to have the latest version of the update in circulation. It is not new to read in the various forums of many users who ask exhaustion, at each news of a new update, when it will be available for their device. In the case of Xiaomi, we know that MIUI developers generally give precedence to the Chinese market and related ROMs, expanding the timing for the release of updates at a Global level.

But what does all this have to do with Qualcomm and MediaTek you may be wondering, considering that theoretically it certainly does not depend on the processors used, the release or not of an update, at most this may be preferred by the community that works in modding techniques.

Qualcomm

Is your Xiaomi smartphone with MediaTek CPU slow in receiving updates? Here's why?

But precisely for this consideration we understand why to prefer a smartphone equipped with Qualcomm CPU than a MediaTek. In fact, smartphones based on Qualcomm SoC tend to update more quickly and a confirmation comes to us for example from the release of Android 12 Beta, which at the moment has only reached devices equipped with Snapdragon in addition to the fact that all the top of the range in circulation, not only those of Xiaomi, boast the Snapdragon 8xx high-end solutions.

However, the real reason why MediaTek lags behind its American counterpart is still unclear, and executive Li Ming thinks to clarify the doubt, who in this regard explains that Google sends the source code of the new software versions in advance to both Qualcomm and MediaTek. . In doing so, both manufacturers have the material time to release updates to be released to telephony OEMs such as Xiaomi.

Qualcomm

Same timing but different work team, as Qualcomm can count on a larger workforce than MediaTek's and therefore churn out updated software faster. Trivia perhaps, but that's the real reason why MediaTek falls behind, releasing updates weeks if not months later to the Snapdragon CPU team.

Let's look on the positive side, as the executive Li Ming himself suggests, that is that updating some smartphones late compared to others, allows you to detect problems in the update but above all limit any damage to only a small number of devices and solve it in faster times, compared to what it would have taken if the problem reaches the entire battery of devices in the catalog. Supercazzola or truth?

It is not up to me to make judgments, but if this is really the case, perhaps the definitive time has come for Xiaomi to launch its own chip, as manufacturers such as Samsung, Huawei and Apple itself have been doing for years. The times are ripe, don't you think so? Have your say in the comments box below.

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Emanuele Iafulla
Emanuele Iafulla

Nerd, Geek, Netizen, terms that do not belong to me. Simply myself, technology lover and provocative as Xiaomi does with his products. High quality at fair prices, a real provocation for the other most famous brands.

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