Xiaomi Redmi S2 With Snapdragon 625 SoC, Face Unlock Heading to India

Xiaomi is preparing yet another budget smartphone for the Indian market and this time around, it’s under a new smartphone series: Redmi S. The Xiaomi Redmi S2 with dual cameras, HD+ 18:9 display, powerful Snapdragon 625 SoC and Face Unlock features is heading to the Indian market very soon as per a new report. Xiaomi has a plethora of budget devices in the Indian market ranging from the Redmi 5, Redmi Note 5, Redmi Y1, Redmi Y1 Lite, Redmi 4 and Redmi 5A, and the Redmi S2 will join these devices. The Redmi S2 will be launched in China and India, but it might launch in India first before heading to the Chinese market.

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Folks at xda-developers have managed to grab this information from the firmware files, which revealed the device’s launch in India and China. The Xiaomi Redmi S2 will flaunt an 18:9 display with 1440×720 pixels resolution. However, the screen size of the smartphone is unknown at the moment. The firmware files revealed the device would be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 SoC, which was previously present on smartphones such as the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, Redmi Note 5, Mi A1 and Mi Max 2. And Xiaomi’s love for this chipset is not going to end anytime soon, and the usage of Snapdragon 625 SoC will allow the device to price aggressively.

The chipset will be mated to 16GB of onboard storage, and the RAM configuration is not revealed in this report. However, Xiaomi, in India launches devices in several memory configurations, so we might see a 2GB+16GB variant and 3GB+32GB variant launching. However, we’re not sure about this at the moment.