Xiaomi is a very good make we have owned 3 of them, 2 were pure android one operating system which w..

@Ra... Ray, you have lost me, what is the Chinese system layer over android? TIA

Samsung, LG, Sony and all manufacturers have their own take on the operating system which is basical..

@Ra... Thanks Ray, my grandson is visiting during the week and I will get him to show me how it wor..

From experience (I used to help do it!) the fewer tweaks to the operating system, the better. You ar..

saying that Peter Xiaomi (pronounced "showme") is the 3rd largest mobile phone manufacturer in the w..

Fair enough. Don't really follow the mobile market these days -- far too many manufacturers and mode..

Probably because all their sales have been in China untill this year.

@Mi... and then sold on through Amazon?

You could try asking @Ar... (H of olden days).

I'm sure he said that he owns one of these Xiaomi Poc..

Dear All, I am confused which maybe due to my age BUT if I want to speak to somebody I use a phone. ..

@Pe... I am sorry but you lost me. I am not tekky so dont know anything about updates & tweaking or..

@Ei... but your Grandson does so stick with his instructions.

@Ei... I am finding this thread rather confusing .... It says at the top that you need a new phone...

@An... If I needed a new mobile 'phone and someone offered me one that they no longer needed b..

I took it that her Grandson was recommending the phone that he has and Eilish was asking whether we ..

Oh, I see, I must have misread the whole thing.

And I am pretty sure that @Ar... has got one of these Pocophones, and is or was very pleased with it ..

@Ch... Yes, my grandson is recommending it, but, he is only 18. This is why I was asking if any..

@Ei... nowadays even 14 year olds are usually very technically knowledgable so your Grandson probab..

@Ei... updating is done automatically by the manufacturer, and tweaking is not something that you c..

@Be... some people want to do things ‘on the go’ awkward on a bus with a 👩‍💻 laptop so nowadays th..

@Ra... please read Peters post 5 down from my original post, where he speaks of updates. I read his..

@Ei... and then there are the Experts reviews and also customers reviews, read the good and the bad..

@Ei... Peter was refering to an earlier career, when he was working as a software engineer. That's ..

@Ei... whilst I am not familiar with that particular xiaomi model, all of the Xiaomi phones I have ..

@Ei..., sorry for muddying the waters!

I would expect that most phones will update their operating..

Yes, I used to modify Android software for a mobile phone company.

There are three levels to the pr..

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Apple control their products much more tightly, and there are many stories of them updating..

@Pe... might be information overload for eilish, but all very valid points, the plain vanilla googl..

@Ra... I didn’t even know they came in flavours as well as colours 😂😂😂😂😂

Surely you remember Orange? :o)

@Pe... oh yes. What was I thinking 🤔