MIUI , A Beautiful, Super Fast ROM for Android
If you've become a bit bored with the way Android looks and works, MIUI is a completely different Android experience, bringing a beautiful iOS-like interface, blazing speed, and tons of extra features to the Android operating system.
The MIUI ROM is actually a translated version of a Chinese customized version of Android. There are both Froyo (2.2) and Gingerbread (2.3) versions available, though the one shown above is the Froyo build .
A Beautiful User Interface and Some Extra Features
If you love Android's power and customizability, but aren't crazy about its user interface, MIUI is your dream come true. It's designed to look more like iOS or like Samsung's TouchWiz interface than stock Android, and boy is it gorgeous. You've got the unified square icons, pretty menus, and a ton of home screens to swipe through. There's no app drawer, which is weird at first, but you get used to it pretty quickly. It does a great job of helping you manage your home screens, so you almost don't miss the app drawer. The notification dropdown is still present, thankfully, and it's got a power control-like widget built in, that lets you swipe between tons of different settings and quickly toggle them on and off. You can even reboot or shut down your phone right from this menu. And, of course, the ROM has a great themes manager that lets you download and try out different themes for the custom UI.
Speed
Surprisingly, despite the eye candy, this ROM is fast. Really fast. It isn't as fast as, say, iOS, but it makes the slow and laggy Motorola Droid much more usable.If you've got an old phone, this ROM is worth checking out for the speed increases alone. You can still use a different home screen launcher with MIUI, but you'd lose some of the interface's beauty and a lot of its cool features, so I don't recommend it.
New Stock Apps
MIUI also has its own custom apps in place of the stock offerings, like the Dialer or the Contacts app. The Music app is particularly awesome, using less memory than the stock music player and boasting a really nice interface that moves much more smoothly. It also has a Winamp-like Now Playing window that you can show and hide from any screen in the player, which I like a lot.
You'll be able to find more goings-on at http://miui.us, in addition to the links below.
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