Get Android 9.0 Pie on Redmi Note 5 Pro with OxygenOS 9.0 port

Xiaomi’s MIUI is amongst the most popular Android skins with more than 300 million worldwide users. MIUI is a heavy skin on top of Android skin that offers various customizations but brings a good amount of bloat as well. Xiaomi's Redmi Note 5 Pro was amongst the best selling devices launched in 2018 but it runs on Android 8.1 (Oreo) based MIUI 10 as of now. As per an official announcement, Redmi Note 5 Pro is expected to get Android 9.0 (Pie) in Q1 2019 but the public beta testing for the MIUI Global ROM hasn't started yet. Earlier, we tried Pixel Experience and Pixel Experience Extended ROM on Redmi Note 5 Pro both of which were based on Android Pie. Oxygen OS is another Android skin that is popular amongst users for the customizations it offers without adding bloat, developers have ported Android 9.0 (Pie) based Oxygen OS to Redmi Note 5 Pro. We tried it on our unit and here are our impressions, Performance and Benchmarks: Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 is capable of delivering a solid day to day performance, we obtained AnTuTu score of 113283 which is slightly lesser as compared to 115397 on Pixel Experience ROM but the day to day performance ...

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