XIAOMI REDMI 2 REVIEW

Xiaomi launched its budget android smartphone namely Redmi 2 in India which is priced @ 6,999/- sold via Flipkart. It is available is Black, White, Red, Pink & Green shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY

The design of this phone is pretty nice. It has corning glass 3 on front and a plastic back and feels good in hands. It is slim at 9.4mm and weighs 133gms. It has 4.7 inch HD IPS LCD display of resolution 720 x 1280 with 312 ppi. The viewing angles are very good and sunlight legibility of the display is quite average. It runs on MI User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS

It has 8GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 32GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like music for songs, a gallery to store all images and videos and a video player for playing movies respectively which are very good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Conductivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n/, Wifi dual-band, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy).

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES

It has a 8MP rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is very good overall. Daytime the images are very good and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is just good and could have been better. It does FULL HD1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 17-18mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is very good overall. Daytime the video clarity is very good and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is just good could have been bit better. It also has a 2MP front camera for selfe's with 720p video recording and clarity is quite good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS

It runs Android (OS) 4.4.4 jelly bean out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 (MSM8226) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running a Quad-Core 1.2 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A53 Architecture) with 1GB RAM and Adreno 306 (400MHZ Single-Core) GPU. The performance is great which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no major lag at all. 

QUADRANT : 8550.

ANTUTU : 20150.

NENAMARK 2: 59fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE

It has a Removable Li-Pro 2200 mah battery. The battery life is Pretty Good which is given below.

BROWSING : upto 7:10H.

VIDEO WATCHING: upto 6740H.

TALKTIME : upto 16H(2G) / upto 14H(3G).

STANDBY TIME: upto 450H(2G) / upto 430H(3G).

PROS

*Good build quality. 
*Very Good Display.

*Great Performance.

*Very good camera and video recording.
*Pretty fine loudspeaker.
*Removable battery 
*Great Pricing.

CONS 
*Sold only via online by Flipkart. 

*No dedicated camera key. 

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9.3/10.

°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.