Rumors that Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi might be breaking from Android to develop its own mobile operating system are not true, company executives said on Tuesday.
"No plans," Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said of the idea to build their own system beyond Android.
Beijing-based Xiaomi makes smartphones running a heavily modified version of Google's Android mobile operating system. Recent reports have claimed that the company is working on its own Linux-based system, but on Tuesday company executives said that is not the case, during the GMIC mobile Internet conference in San Francisco.
"We have a very good collaboration with Google," Jun said during an on-stage chat with AllThingsD's Kara Swisher.
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