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

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produced by

Xiaomi Xiaomi (; ) is a Chinese multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Beijing, China. It is best known for consumer electronics software electric vehicles. It is the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the worl ...

. 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 Mi 2 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 ~342 ppi, 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 16 GB or 32 GB of internal storage. It contains a 2000 mAh battery.

Software

The Xiaomi Mi 2 ships with Android and Xiaomi's

MIUI MIUI is a deprecated mobile operating system by Xiaomi for its smartphones and devices, from 2010 to 2023, prior to the launch of its successor Xiaomi HyperOS. MIUI was Fork (software development), based on the Android (operating system), Andro ...

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. The Xiaomi Mi was updated to MIUI 9 based on Android 5.0.1 Lollipop.

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