The first big news of the year come from all our favorite Xiaomi. Xiaomi officially launched the new Xiaomi Redmi 2.

As we reported earlier the Xiaomi Redmi 2 stays pretty close to the Redmi 1S, but has some significant changes. The Hongmi 2 sports a 4.7″ HD screen, a 64BIT Snapdragon CPU and Dual 4G Connectivity. So you get the same size of screen as on the Redmi 1S, but the new Redmi 2 is more compact. As we know it from Xiaomi, the screen is manufactured by Sharp, and comes with 312ppi and HD 720p resolution.

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The Xiaomi Redmi 2 is actually the first Xiaomi phone with 64BIT CPU. The phone sports a Snapdragon 410, quad-core Cortex-A53 clocked at 1.2Ghz, 1GB of RAM and Adreno 306 GPU. The Redmi 2 becomes MIUI V6, 8GB of internal memory that you can expand with 32GB micro SD.

The Xiaomi Redmi 2 comes with Dual Sim Slots, that are both capable of 4G LTE Connectivity. The Redmi 2 sports FDD-LTE, so you be sure to use international LTE Bands. For the Camera the new Redmi did not really get an upgrade. The Main camera is a 8MP Shooter, produced by OmniVision. The Camera has f 2.2 and you can shoot Full HD 1080 videos. For the Selfie Cam you get a 2MP shooter with HD Video Function. The battery is reasonably large at 2200mAh.

Xiaomi Redmi 2 Camera Samples

The new Xiaomi Redmi 2 will launch officially in Friday and will sell for 700Yuan, that is just 110USD or 400RM. We have no officiall news when the new Redmi 2/Hongmi 2 will come to other countries. It looks like Xiaomi will keep the Pricelevel the same though, with around RM400.We expect Xiaomi to launch the next flagship Xiaomi Mi5 on 15th January. Source