China’s Xiaomi brings its Android-based MIUI firmware to the WiFi-only Nexus 7 tablet

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by Sindy Cator on March 16, 2014 at 6:31 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Gadgets, Google

Popular Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi hasn’t yet branched out into manufacturing tablets, but its MIUI firmware is coming to Google’s second-generation Nexus 7 tablet — though only for the WiFi version (via Engadget). Xiaomi’s highly-customizable MIUI firmware, which is based on Android, has been tweaked with a new interface design to better suit a tablet. The company says its engineers did a lot of new development and optimization to ensure the MIUI firmware is ideally re-adapted to a tablet, instead of just copying over MIUI as it is on smartphones. They applied a whole new design language to showcase content on the tablet,…