Congrats Xiaomi for a successful 2014. Hope its company will launch more and more affordable flagships in the future. We heard about the Dual 4G LTE edition of Redmi 1S a couple of weeks ago. And just after a few days after the new year, we are hearing the news of official launch of the new Xiaomi Redmi 2 on Jan 4th.

The new Xiaomi Redmi 2 is the successor of the Xiaomi Redmi 1. Therefore, there are many similarities between them. In detail, the Xiaomi Redmi 2 sports the same 4.7″ along with 720 x 1280 screen found on the Redmi 1S. Moreover, its phone is packed with 8GB of internal storage that you can expand with 32GB micro SD as well as 1GB of RAM. For the Camera the new Xiaomi did not really get an improvement, meaning the rear camear is 8MP, produced by OmniVision. The camera has f2.2 and you can also take Full HD 1080 videos. As normally, the Xiaomi screen is also feature 312 ppi and HD 720 resolution which is produced by Sharp.

Also keeping some same features compared to the Xiaomi Redmi 1. This phone stay quitely close to the Xiaomi Redmi 1S, but its phone has more compact. Its phone is the first Xiaomi phone which is reported 64 Bit Snapdragon. Additionally, the Redmi 2 runs on Snapdragon 410, quad-core Cortex-A53 clocked at 1.2Ghz and Adreno 306 GPU. The most interesting upgrade is that this phone is supported Dual 4G Connectivity. It means that its phone comes with Dual Sim Slots that are both capable of 4G LTE Connectivity. Besides, the Redmi 2S reports FDD-LTE, meaning that you can use international LTE Bands. As for battery, this phone is powered by quite stronger capacity than its predecessor, at 2200 mAh instead of 2000 mAh. In addition, its phone comes with variety bright colors for young users.

The Xiaomi Redmi 2/Hongmi 2 will debut the local market on this Friday (January 9) at CNY 700, $ 110 or only PHP 5140. But there is not any official statement for global ship. And we will let you know as soon as getting news.

Recently, we heard about a “new flagship of Xiaomi” for new year 2015. And we also hope the Xiaomi Mi5 will be published on this Jan 15th as expected.

Xiaomi Redmi 2 Camera Samples

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