Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime Review: Still A Great Budget Option

By Abhinav Pathak on Sep 04, 2015 02:07 PM

Xiaomi launched the Redmi 2 Prime amid much fanfare, the first "Made in India" smartphone by the company. Its an upgrade of the previous-gen Redmi 2 with double the memory and storage at 2GB RAM, 16GB storage. The Redmi 2 Prime still performs well, offers one of the better rear cameras in this price bracket with a good display. Sadly the Redmi 2 still runs on Android KitKat and there is no update to Android Lollipop in the foreseeable future.

8.8

The Redmi 2 was our pick of the bunch among budget smartphones launched earlier, and the Redmi 2 Prime takes it one step further with more memory, storage.

PROS

Good Display
Good Performance, Gaming
Budget Pricing
Loud Clear Speakerphone
Good Cameras
4G LTE, USB OTG

CONS

Apps Not Movable
Build Quality Could've Been Better
Capacitive Buttons Not Backlit
Still running Android 4.4 KitKat

Score Breakdown

Build and Design

8.4
Display

9.0
Network Reception & Call Quality

9.0
Camera(s)

8.7
Music & Video Playback

8.9
Gaming

8.9
Performance

8.8
Battery-life

8.7
Software

9.1
Total Score

8.8 10.0