MIUI 6 was officially released yesterday. As the largest Android customized system in China, its release naturally attracted much attention. We also got the flash kit for the first time and had a more detailed experience. Now let's present a detailed comparison between MIUI 6 and MIUI V5.

The test machines used this time are all mass production versions of Xiaomi 4. One is painted with the latest MIUI6, and the other is painted with the latest MIUI V5 development version (4.8.15). According to the system logic of MIUI, this horizontal evaluation will be divided into four parts: design style, system bottom layer, system application and tool application. ▲

Design Style Comparison

As a whole system, the unity of its UI interface can directly reflect its maturity. At the same time, a unified and efficient UI can also reduce user learning costs and improve user experience.

In terms of MIUI V5 design style, the most obvious feature is its roundness. Whether it is the rounded rectangular icons and system buttons, or various transition animations, it has a unique softness of MIUI V5 ▲

MIUI6 removes many shadows and transitions, and uses a lighter color system, which makes it simple and bright ▲

System background color contrast, MIUI V5 uses dark gray texture background in the unified top indicator bar of system application; MIUI 6 adds a more thorough immersive status bar, and adopts background blur processing similar to iOS7, which will render independent background texture according to the actual picture behind ▲

In terms of the main color of the system, V5 buttons and the background color of the reminder area are classic orange, which is mature and stable; MIUI 6 uses lighter and brighter color elements. Although orange is still used as the basic color, it can be seen that "colorful" ▲ is more prominent in the system, whether it is the colored option icon or the application background color that will change more according to the application type

Users who don't like complexity may like V5's steady processing, but the translucent ground glass effect is very suitable for young people's aesthetic taste.

System bottom comparison

The operating system is an application presentation and management platform. Although its appearance rate is not high except for the desktop and lock screen, whether the underlying functions are excellent will directly affect the user's evaluation of the overall system. This part will be divided into five parts: lock screen, desktop, notification bar, task manager, and setting interface.

Lock screen

In contrast to the lock screen interface, the lock screen interface of V5 uses the classic four-way unlocking, and users can directly access call, SMS or camera applications by sliding left, right and up. MIUI 6 has changed to sliding up at the bottom to unlock. After adding a message reminder, you can display the number of notifications on the lock screen and directly enter the relevant applications ▲

desktop

The most obvious visual difference between the two generations of system desktops lies in the flattening of MIUI 6 icons, the reduction of chamfer radians, the removal of shadows and gradients, and the use of lighter color systems, which makes them look more concise and lively. The new version of the system icon is slightly reduced, and the font is more detailed ▲

The new system also adds the function of global sliding up to the search interface, and the new corner display function ▲

new edition On the desktop widget plug-in, a variety of plug-ins have been added, including calendar, calculator, player and virtual clock. It is worth mentioning that the calculator plug-in can directly perform calculation operations on the desktop ▲

Notification Bar

The notice bar of the new version is narrower, the font is smaller, the ground glass effect is added and the immersion design is adopted. It is also the design of the shortcut switch in the N-house format by left stroke to enter the notification interface and right slide to enter the N-house format. In the new version, the top left corner of the music player is resident, the shortcut switch list can be slid, and the design of custom switch position has been canceled ▲

A small detail is that the operator name is moved to the right, and the time display is moved to the left. If there is a clock plug-in on the desktop, it will automatically hide ▲

Task Manager

Compared with the old and new task managers, the new system changes the menu key to multi task key, and the original menu is called by long pressing the multi task key. The new version of Task Manager no longer displays on half screen ▲

Two display modes, icon and thumbnail, can be switched through double finger zoom ▲

It also supports the features of sliding closing and sliding locking ▲

Setting interface

Comparison between the old and new setting interfaces. Stylistically, the new version cancels the label of commonly used settings, narrows the font and widens the distance between settings groups, leaving more space. At the same time, the original gray icon is changed to a colored round icon, and the account information is folded by default ▲

In terms of content, it mainly adds a unified setting entry for system applications. The settings of the security center, contacts, SMS, camera and other built-in applications are placed here, so that the system applications can completely cancel the settings button ▲

System application comparison

The new and old system applications include "application store, cloud service, system update, download management (integrated with Xunlei P2P acceleration engine, and it is said that the new version has its own member acceleration for a year), and security center", with a total of 5 modules. The security center also integrates "garbage cleaning, traffic management, harassment interception, power mode management, virus scanning, authorization management (also including auto start, application permissions, root permissions)", with a total of six functions ▲

Their changes mainly focus on the flattening of the UI, with little change in structure and function. In addition to uniformly canceling the entity setting key function and compressing the navigation bar, it is worth mentioning the logical change of root management reminder. In the new version, each warning has to wait for 5 seconds to be confirmed. In general, 4 or 5 warning alerts will be played consecutively, which causes that each authorization will take a lot of time ▲

Tool application comparison

The tool application with perfect variety and design is an important selling point of MIUI. Basically, each function can be disassembled and released as an independent application. In MIUI 6, some tools only flatten the UI, while other applications have been greatly modified.

Flattened UI changes

Dialing, contacts and short messages in the communication module are just UI changes. The new and old versions have life yellow pages, which can directly complete life services such as charging, taking a taxi, checking express delivery, and registering. Features such as visual call menu, automatic call recording, flip mute, harassment isolation, private SMS and group address are also reserved.

Communication module of V5 ▲

Communication module of MIUI 6 ▲

Little changed radio/calculator/calendar/recorder/notes/browser

Their functions have not much to improve. The new version is mainly abstracted.

Compared with the old and new radios, the new version has the function button position adjustment, adding the function of sliding channel adjustment ▲

Comparison of new and old calculators ▲

Calendar of V5 ▲

MIUI 6 calendar also supports special calendar subscription ▲

Compared with the old and new recorders, the interface is changed from the original pseudo physical cassette to the abstract frequency chart ▲

Compared the old and new notes, the background color of the new version is changed to white, and the thumbnail mode is canceled, but the functions of sending directly to the desktop and sharing are added ▲

Compared with the old and new browsers, the layout changes little ▲

Because the system application uniformly cancels the setting key function, the browser has added a setting button similar to UC and other browsers, which can directly add bookmarks, share, and switch the night mode. You can still select the four grid and card tab modes ▲

Layout changes and functional integration

The following tool applications are basically substantially modified and functionally integrated.

Compared with the new camera, the new camera has been greatly simplified and integrated, eliminating the expert mode, and adding a large number of gesture operations. The original photographing and video recording switch button is replaced by a separate video recording key ▲

Three position indicators are placed at the bottom of the new camera: left stroke to enter the setting page, and only beauty, voice shutter HDR、 Several commonly used functions of night scene anti shake (the frosted glass effect here is real-time rendering through camera shooting); Sliding right is a 12 grid real-time filter, which can see 12 real-time rendering effects at a time (low configuration machines may be simplified); Sliding down is the switching of front and rear cameras ▲

Compared with the old and new picture libraries, the new version cancels the large picture browsing of the old version and uses the unified time thumbnail display ▲

In addition, the top label, which is the same as other system applications, is added to the gallery to support left and right sliding switch. A new geographical location classification mode has been added, and all cloud photos can be viewed at ▲

Compared with the old and new music, the music in the new version is also greatly simplified, with only two labels "Discovery and My Music" on the top ▲

However, because the music setting interface is unified into the settings, the sleep mode cannot be directly called in the music, and the shaking and cutting songs are gone. However, the effect of changing the background color according to the album content is great ▲

This is an old clock, which has been done very well in fact ▲

The new version adopts a completely immersive design, and the entire notice bar will disappear. Sliding left and right can also switch between alarm clock, clock, stopwatch and timing functions ▲

Of timers The dial has been changed into a dial clock. You can set different time lengths by moving the dial, and several common time length options such as 1, 3, and 5 are provided ▲

This is the weather of V5. The main interface is weather animation and brief weather information. You need to click the button to view the weekly weather trend and index ▲

The new version turns the original card into a vertical list. You can view the weekly weather, detailed values, air quality and rainfall probability in turn by sliding down. Moving left and right is to switch cities ▲

Comparison of old and new compasses ▲

The main interface of the new version is a virtual spherical compass, which will have a corresponding tilt effect with the tilt angle. When the phone is raised 45 degrees, it will automatically switch to the live mode, displaying the view of the rear camera, and the original value will continue to be displayed in the corner ▲

By sliding to the left, You can enter the level mode. If you lift the phone, the rear camera will be automatically opened to view and switch to the level mode ▲

Compared with the old and new file managers, the old version provides 9-house format classified browsing, file directory and online disk three labels to display ▲

The new version is the default file directory mode, and other modes and functions become the contents of the left column ▲

summary

From the above horizontal comparison, it can be seen that the appearance of the old and new MIUIs has really changed a lot, but it does not depend on the mood of everyone if "at least 10g lighter" as stated in the press conference. The newly added functions such as suspended notification and do not disturb notification are also very user-friendly. However, there are still some problems worth noting. For example, a large number of animations and sensor calls have been added to the new system, resulting in serious power consumption problems.

The above figure shows the recorded power curve of two systems under simple system operation. From the same slope and different use time, it can be seen that the power consumption of the new version of the system is large, while the sudden drop on the right side is the result of opening the performance mode ▲

Other issues include The long-awaited functions such as large screen optimization, smart home and health equipment integration, and cross screen interaction have not been added. However, large screen optimizations such as double click on the bright screen, pull-up bar/bottom control center have not yet appeared.

However, because the body size of Xiaomi 4 is well controlled, and the system introduces left-right sliding gestures in many places, which reduces the difficulty of large screen operation, the problem is not obvious.

At the same time, some functions have not been added and some functions have been simplified, which may disappoint or unaccustomed some senior users, such as the disappearance of flashlight applications; The weakening of the file manager function; Many manual functions in the camera have been simplified, but the preset settings and tuning of Xiaomi are not perfect; The position of the shortcut switch cannot be adjusted.

But considering the habit of MIUI changing every Monday, these problems may be solved soon. If you like the new interface, you can upgrade it. Because even for the internal beta version, MIUI 6 has been very stable. During more than a day of use, there has been no restart or suspended animation. But if you like the old system, it's not a big problem to stay in the old version XD

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