Xiaomi has announced the new Xiaomi Redmi S2 in the Redmi series in an official event in China today. The new Redmi S2 comes with a dual rear camera and has a similar design to the Redmi Note 5 Pro launched in February this year along with the Redmi Note 5 smartphone.
Redmi S2 Price
The Xiaomi Redmi S2 is priced at 999 yuan (around $156) for the 3GB RAM + 32GB inbuilt storage variant while the 4GB RAM + 64GB inbuilt storage variant is priced at 1299 yuan (around $204). The device is expected to be available outside China soon with some other brand name.
Redmi S2 Specifications
The new Redmi S2 features a 5.99-inch HD+ 18:9 2.5D curved glass display with 1000:1 contrast ratio, 450 nits (typ) Brightness, 70.8% NTSC colour gamut and 1440 × 720 pixels resolution and is powered by a 2GHz octa-core Snapdragon 625 14nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 506 GPU. It comes with two variants with one having 3GB RAM + 32GB inbuilt storage while the second one having 4GB RAM + 64GB inbuilt storage and both supporting expandable storage up to 256GB with microSD card slot. It runs on the Android 8.1 (Oreo) with MIUI 9 out of the box. It supports Dual SIMs.
It features a dual rear camera with a 12-megapixel camera with LED Flash, 1.25μm pixel size, PDAF, and f/2.2 aperture along with a secondary 5-megapixel camera. It also comes with a 16-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash. It has a 3080mAh battery and connectivity options available are 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS + GLONASS. It has a fingerprint sensor on the rear side along with an infrared sensor. It measures 160.73 × 77.26 × 8.1mm and weighs 170 grams.
