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Xiaomi has launched MIUI 6, the sixth edition of the customized Android system, or ROM, pre-loaded in its hardware products and available for download. The system is compatible with more than 200 Android phone models and only some 50 were done by the company’s own engineers. Like Xiaomi, the company has developed high-spec & low-cost phone models, and a custom Android system, EMUI, which will launch a major update in September too. OnePlus, a new Android phone brand founded by a former exec from consumer electronics maker OPPO, has confirmed that they are building a team to develop a customized Android system in Taiwan. It’s first flagship phone, OnePlus One, is loaded with CyanogenMod (CM), an open source Android system that apparently has no business plan like that of Xiaomi.