Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 to come with AMOLED display with 93% screen to body ratio: Report - The Mobile Indian

• By: Meenu Rana, The Mobile Indian, New Delhi

  Last updated : Monday, March 06, 2017 - 12:55

The device is expected to come with Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC and will be IP68 water resistant.

As reported earlier, the upcoming Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 smartphone is expected to be announced sometime in the second half of this year. Further, a new report has now surfaced online revealing a bunch of interesting features. 

As per the report from GizmoChina, the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 is expected to come with a curved AMOLED display that offers a screen-to-body ratio of 93% of the device. The existing Mi Mix comes with an LCD display covering 91.3% of the front panel. It means that the Mi Mix 2 bezels will be thinner than Mi Mix. Moreover, Mi Mix 2 will take the ceramic design from its predecessor and the in-display fingerprint scanner from the recently launched Mi 5c. In other words, the smartphone has its fingerprint sensor placed underneath the display panel. 

For the design, Mi Mix II will be designed by the same French designe r Philippe Starck who designed its predecessor Mi MIX. The company is aiming at a smartphone whose screen can cover the front panel of the phone. Also, the smartphone will not be having any physical buttons. The Mi MIX II will be the first Chinese phone to not have a physical button if this comes into reality.

As per rumours, the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 will feature 6.2-inch QHD display with an aspect ratio of 18:9 as in the LG G6. Also, the device is expected to come with Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC and will be IP68 water resistant besides the in-display fingerprint sensor technology.

Meanwhile, its predecessor, the Mi Mix comes in two variants - 4GB RAM and 6GB RAM. The 4GB RAM with 128GB internal storage is priced at 3,499 Yuan or approximately Rs 34,512 while the 6GB variant with 256GB internal storage will cost you 3,999 Yuan or approximately Rs 39,442.

The 6GB variant of Xiaomi Mi Mix boasts a ceramic body and comes with a 6.4-inch (2040 x 1080) bezel-less display with a 91.3 percent screen to body ratio. Moreover, it comes with an 18k carat gold finish on the camera lens and a fingerprint sensor on the back. On the inside, It is powered by 2.35 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 821 64-bit processor along with Adreno 530 GPU. The dual SIM smartphone runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating with MIUI 8 and has a 4400 mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0 technology. It offers a 16-megapixel autofocus rear camera with dual tone LED flash, PDAF, f/2.0 aperture, 4K video recording and a 5-megapixel front camera. 

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