Xiaomi Mi A2 to come on August 8 as Amazon exclusive smartphone in India

Xiaomi Mi A2 to come on August 8 as Amazon exclusive smartphone in India
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Xiaomi has created a special page on Amazon.in which lists the features and media reviews of the Mi A2 smartphone. It also has six photos that are claimed to be shot by the phone.

Last week, Xiaomi launched its much-awaited Mi A2 smartphone under Google’s Android One programme in Madrid, Spain. At the event. it was announced that the phone will be available in 40 countries globally, including in India. Finally, the wait is over and the Chinese conglomerate has decided to make the phone an Amazon exclusive device in the country. People can now see a rolling ad on the homepage of Amazon.in website.

When you click on the ad, a new special page comes up showing a “Notify Me’ button. You can click the button to set a notification. The website will send you a notification when the phone becomes available. The special page also contains tiles that give info about the features of the smartphone. When you scroll down futher, you can see media reviews of the device. To promote its camera, the company has also uploaded half a dozen camera samples under a banner caption “#ShotonMiA2”.

Xiaomi Mi A2 Specifications: The Xiaomi Mi A2 has an aluminum unibody design and comes with a USB Type-C charging port. It has a 5.99-inch Full HD+ IPS panel with an aspect ratio of 18:9. The panel is protected by a 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass 5. An Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 chipset clocked at 2.2GHz powers the smartphone. Xiaomi launched Mi A2 in three variants – 4GB RAM + 32GB storage, 4GB RAM + 64GB storage, and 6GB RAM + 128GB storage. It is not known which models will the company release in India and the prices were also not revealed on Amazon.

On the back, it has a fingerprint sensor in the centre and a dual-camera setup aligned vertically on the top left corner. In terms of optics, the Mi A2 comes with a dual-camera system on the back. The primary camera has a 12MP Sony IMX486 sensor and the secondary 20MP consists of a Sony IMX376 sensor for portrait photography. Both the lenses have f/1.75 aperture. There is a 20MP front camera with Sony IMX376 sensor and Xiaomi's Super Pixel Technology. The phone is available in three colours – Gold, Blue and Black.

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