When you travel overseas and you want to go online, you’ll either have to rely on local WiFi, purchase a SIM card in that country, or be forced to pay exorbitant data roaming charges as dictated by your carrier. However over in China, it seems that things are a little different, especially if you’re a Xiaomi customer.
It seems that along with the launch of the Redmi Note 2, Xiaomi has also announced their MIUI 7 operating system which is based on Android, and it turns out that one of the features of MIUI 7 is on-demand roaming. What it does is that when you’re overseas, the OS will create a virtual local SIM card of the country you are in.
This means you get to roam and use data overseas at a considerably much lower cost and you won’t have to bother switching carriers. According to Xiaomi, this will cost customers about $0.02 per megabyte which is no doubt extremely affordable compared to normal roaming charges.
In fact it could even cheaper than buying a local SIM if you only plan to use it for brief periods of time. Unfortunately this service is only available for Xiaomi’s customers in China and according to the company, it will be able to support about 36 countries at launch, including the US, UK, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan just to name a few.