Xiaomi just announced the Civi 2, the company’s latest smartphone in the Civi series in China, as it had promised. The phone has a 6.55-inch Full HD+ 10-bit AMOLED 58° curved screen with 120Hz refresh rate and supports Dolby Vision. It is one of the few phones to be powered by the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 SoC and has customized stainless steel 2387mm² VC liquid cooling along with 6200mm² graphite.
Camera
The Civi 2 has dual 32MP front cameras inside the punch-hole. One is a standard auto focus camera and the other one is a 100° ultra-wide-angle camera. It also has four soft LED lights. The company says that the phone offers DSLR-like portrait blur, Bionic eyes that imitate human eye to achieve delicate blurring and offers up to 256 layers of depth information, said the company.
The texture beauty portrait offers star-level retouching, pixel-level skin rejuvenation technology 3.0 and offers three-dimensional tone and rich details. The texture of the skin is specially adjusted for boys, thanks to AI gender recognition. The phone has a 50MP rear camera with Sony IMX766 sensor, 20MP ultra-wide camera and a macro camera.
Xiaomi said that it is the world’s first phone to use 1G6P WLG glass-plastic hybrid lens that specially customized by Chengrui Optics, using a combination of 1 WLG wafer-level glass lens and 6 plastic lenses, which has more powerful optics than the traditional 7P plastic lens.
It is 7.23mm and weighs just 171.8 grams. The phone packs a 4500mAh battery with support for 67W fast charging that can charge up to 100% in 40 minutes.
In addition to the standard version, the phone also comes in Hello Kitty special Edition model in white. This has double-layer patters, rich layers and dual fine polishing that offers a delicate feeling in hands. The grooves are superimposed in the nano-level to create three-dimensional light and shadow. There is a special box with the model that comes with a Hello Kitty Custom Lipstick Power Bank: 5000mAh, Hello Kitty figurine, pouch and more.
Xiaomi Civi 2 specifications
- 6.55-inch (2400 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ AMOLED 20:9 HDR10 + display, 120Hz refresh rate, 240Hz touch sampling rate, 1920Hz High Frequency PWM Dimming, up to 1000 nits brightness, HDR10+, Dolby Vision, Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (4nm) Mobile Platform with Adreno 662 GPU
- 8GB LPDDR4X RAM with 128GB / 256GB (UFS 2.2) storage / 12GB LPDDR4X RAM 256GB (UFS 2.2) storage
- Dual SIM (nano + nano)
- MIUI 13 based on Android 12
- 50MP rear camera with Sony IMX766 sensor, f/1.8 aperture, LED flash, 20MP 115° ultra-wide angle lens with f/2.2 aperture, 2MP macro camera with f/2.4 aperture
- 32MP AF front-facing camera with f/2.0 main camera, 32MP 100° ultra-wide secondary camera, Multi-color temperature Quad LED flash
- In-display fingerprint sensor, Infrared sensor
- USB Type-C audio, Dual speakers, Dolby Atmos
- Dimensions: 159.2×72.7×7.23; Weight: 171.8g
- 5G SA/NSA, Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 6 802.11 ax, Bluetooth 5.2, GPS (L1 + L5), NavIC, USB Type-C, NFC
- 4500mAh (Typical) battery with 67W wired fast charging
Pricing and availability
The Xiaomi Civi 2 comes in Ice Blue, Pink, Black and White co-branded Hello Kitty model and is priced at 2399 yuan (US$ 355 / Rs. 27,285 approx.) for the 8GB + 128GB model, 8GB + 256GB costs 2499 yuan (US$ 349 / Rs. 28,410 approx.) and the top-end 12GB + 256GB model is priced at 2799 yuan (US$ 391 / Rs. 31,825 approx.). It will be available to order in China starting today.