The Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 was a middle class

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. It came in two variants. It had 13 MP rear camera and 5 MP front camera. The company discontinued the smartphone's sale in favor of the successors Redmi 3 and Redmi Note 3.

Specifications

Hardware

The low end variant Redmi Note 2 was powered by a MediaTek MT6795 Helio X10

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2.0 GHz Cortex-A53 prosessor coupled with 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of Internal Storage. The High end variant Redmi Note 2 Prime, on the other hand, was powered by a MediaTek MT6795 Helio X10

2.2 GHz Cortex-A53 prosessor coupled with 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of Internal Storage.

Software

Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 runs on Android Lollipop 5.0 on top of MIUI 7 and can be upgraded to MIUI 9. It is also possible to flash a custom ROM with

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, 8 or 9, but there is no official support by

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References

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