Leica finally arrives to xiaomi latest flagship

This particular version highly potential for global release

Heard that other two S versions for china only so no post here
Edit: oops the ultra also apparently china only as well. But xiaomi global proceed to "paper launch" it anyway expecting ROW customers to aliexpress it? Lol

MIUI is the let down for everything

Honestly, i also want to know why so much hate on MIUI?

Here's what I think why people disliked it:
1. Pre-installed app such as FB, Linkedin, Booking and some chinese apps. But it is easy to uninstall it, just 2 clicks away.
2. Advertising. Just need to go to each individual components and turn off recommendations. If i recall correctly, 5 or 6 places.
3. Wallpaper carousel. If you use this, probably you will get in-app advertisement. Just don't use this feature, easy.
4. Bloatware. TBH, i think Samsung's bloatware is even worse. Also MIUI is using Google stock dialer and messaging app.
5. Home launcher. It is known that MIUI did not encourage you to use other launcher, it let me use Nova launcher but navigation gesture won't work (there is a workaround for this). But personally, I'm quite comfortable with MIUI stock launcher, especially when you use app drawer mode, the search field is located conveniently at the bottom, near to your thumb. For other stock launcher, their search field mostly located at the top screen, which is very inconvenient especially when working with single hand and your thumb can't reach that search field on top.

Full disclosure, I'm currently using Mi10T so my opinion could be biased. But i also have tried S20 FE with OneUI 4, and Motorola Edge 30 Pro (and non-pro version) with their close to vanilla android UI, but in the end I'm back to this old phone.

Actually the main hate on Miui is mostly because of buggy UI and every time update can introduce new bugs or make bugs worse. People actually can handle the bloatware or ads if tech savvy/power users, but for bugs can be quite unbearable. Some of these include app being killed in background, delay in key notification of messages (may be linked to work for some), quirks in certain functions etc.

Xiaomi 12s ultra can only be imported for the meantime (or at least for several months or even whole product life cycle). China miui may has quirks that possible annoyance for some users.

Vivo X80 pro, although still on samsung version of snapdragon 8, at least can be obtained locally with local warranty and global version of UI, for more peace of mind