Xiaomi Mi 2 (often referred to as Xiaomi Phone 2, Chinese: 小米手机2), is an

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produced by Xiaomi Tech. The device features a quad-core 1.5 GHz

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Snapdragon S4 Pro as its CPU. The device initially sold for ¥1999 in China.

Specifications

Hardware

The casing of the Xiaomi Mi2 is mostly made from plastic, with SIM card slots located inside. The

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port is located at the bottom of the device with the audio jack located at the top of the device. The power and volume keys were located on the right side of device. Near the top of the device are a front-facing camera, proximity sensors, and a

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. In particular, the proximity sensors are mostly used to detect whether the device is in a pocket or not. The device is widely available in white, green, yellow, blue, red and pink color finishes. The device's display is larger than its predecessor, with a 4.3-inch, 720p IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of ~342ppi, and Dragontrail glass. The model is one of three variations of the device Xiaomi created before creating the Xiaomi Mi 3. The device comes with either 16GB or 32GB of internal storage. It contains a 2000mAh battery.

Software

The Xiaomi Mi 2 ships with

and Xiaomi's

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user experience.

Updates

Updates for the Xiaomi Mi 2 is available in three channels: stable, developer and daily. New stable builds are usually available every month with major changes between each update, new developer builds are usually available every week with small but sometimes significant features added between each update and new beta builds are usually available every Wednesdays and usually only contain small fixes and optimizations. Beta builds are only available to some beta testers selected on MIUI's community forums. To update between versions, users usually use an over-the-air updater application. It will receive MIUI 9.

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