Xiaomi Mi Mix 2s vs UMIDIGI S2 Pro

Xiaomi launched its long-awaited Mi Mix 2s smartphone in March 2018. The equally-anticipated UMiDIGI S2 Pro smartphone, on the other hand, was launched back in September, last year. Let’s compare the two phones on the basis of their design, hardware and price tags they carry.

Sporting a borderless design, the Mi Mix 2s is housed in a robust aluminum alloy and ceramic body. This is further complemented by an LCD IPS (1080 x 2160 pixels) FHD+ screen.

There’s a 12MP + 12MP dual camera setup on the rear. You can find a 5MP camera along with an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner placed in the front.

The phone’s dimensions are 74.9 mm x 150.8 mm x 8.7 mm (LxWxH) and it weighs in at 189 grams. You can choose from two color options including white and black.

The S2 Pro sports a full metal body design coupled with an IPS, FHD multi-touch display with a screen resolution of 1080 x 2160 pixels. The 18:9 edge-to-edge full-screen features Corning Gorilla Glass 4 for added protection.

There’s a 13MP + 5MP dual camera setup on the back and a 5MP camera placed in the front for selfies. The S2 Pro boasts dimensions of 78.0 mm x 158.6 mm x 8.0 mm (LxWxH) and its weight with battery is 186 grams.

The S2 Pro is currently up for grabs in 3 color choices including black, silver, and red. The phone’s mercury silver edition is made of the stainless steel body.

The recently debuted Mi Mix 2s smartphone packs a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor along with a Qualcomm Adreno 630 graphics processing unit, under the hood. The device has 6GB/8GB of RAM and 64GB/128GB/256GB non-expandable ROM.

The phone is backed by a 3,400 mAh Lithium-Polymer battery. This non-removable cell delivers up to 300 hours of standby time and up to 15 hours of talk time.

Furthermore, the Xiaomi-branded dual-SIM (nano + nano) smartphone has a broad range of sensors including accelerometer, gyroscope, proximity, compass, barometer, hall, step detector, step counter, and a front-mounted ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. There are no card slots available.

The UMiDIGI S2 Pro smartphone is powered by a MediaTek Helio P25 MT6757T, 64-Bit processor and it employs an ARM Mali-T880 MP2, 900GHz, 4-Cores GPU. The phone offers 6GB of RAM along with 64GB of internal memory that can further be expanded up to 256GB using SIM 2 slot.

It features a hybrid dual-SIM (nano + nano/microSD) slots with dual standby. Moreover, the device comes with 3 card slots including microSD, microSDHC, and microSDXC.

The S2 Pro is crammed with all sorts of sensors such as proximity sensor, accelerometer, light sensor, compass, and gyroscope. There’s a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor as well.

The Xiaomi Mi MIX 2s smartphone carries a price tag of about $549. The UMiDIGI S2 Pro smartphone can be yours if you’re willing to shell out about $269. You can check out a more detailed comparison between the two smartphones below.

Product Name

Xiaomi Mi Mix 2s

UMIDIGI S2 Pro
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Price

$549.00
Our Rating

9.5

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Brand

Xiaomi

UMiDigi
Category

Mobiles

Mobiles

General

Model

Mi MIX 2s s2pro
Released

March 27, 2018 18/09/17
Status

Available Available

Design

Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones.

Bar Bar
Dimensions

150.9 x 74.9 x 8.1 mm 158.1 x 74.6 x 8.8 mm
Weight

191 gas 186g
Waterproof

No No

Display

Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor)

LCD, IPS capacitive touchscreen TFT
Size

5.9 inches QHD 5.99 inch
Resolution

1080 x 2160 Pixels, 24 bit color depth 1440 x 720 (FHD - 18:9 Ratio)
Display Colors Display Colors is refers to the number of different shades of colors that the screen is capable of displaying => 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors, Obviously 16M is highest available range of colors and better than others.

16M Colors 16 Million Colors
Pixel Density Pixel Density (PPI) is refers to the concentration of pixels on a particular display, measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixel density is calculated by dividing the diagonal pixel resolution of a display by its diagonal size, higher pixel density better display quality.

~ 409 PPI 268 ppi
Touch Screen

Yes Multi Touch Support Yes
Display Protection Display Protection => Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use, It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind.

Yes Corning Gorilla Glass Corning Gorilla Glass 4
Features

FHD+ display
~ 409 PPI
2.5D curved glass screen
Capacitive
Color LED Notifications
Multi-touch
Color LED Notifications
Corning Gorilla Glass
Multi-touch
Scratch resistant Capacitive Touchscreen

Hardware

CPU The main chipset of the device.

Octa Core 4x2.8 GHz Kryo 385 + 4x1.8 GHz Kryo 385
GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion.

Qualcomm Adreno 630 Mali-T880 MP2
RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices.

6GB | 8GB 6GB LPDDR4
Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored.

64GB | 128GB | 256GB 64GB
Memory Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras.

Not Available Yes (up to 256GB)
Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device.

Accelerometer
Gyroscope
Proximity
Compass,
Barometer
Hall Fingerprint Sensor (Rear), Proximity Sensor, Ambient Light Sensor, Accelerometer, Magnetometer

Software

Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device.

Android 8.0 Oreo Android 7.0 (Nougat)
User Interface UI or user interface of a device is the look and feel of the on-screen menu system. How it works, its color scheme, how it responds to button presses, all of these things are part of the user interface.

Yes with MIUI V9 UMI OS

Camera

Rear Camera Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality.

Dual 12 + 12 MP | f/1.8, 1/2.55" + 1.4 µm f/2.4, 1/2.9", 1.0 µm | dual pixel dual phase detection autofocus, 4-axis OIS, 2x optical zoom 13 MP + 5 MP f/2.0
Image

4032 x 3024 Pixels
Video

2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@120fps
Flash Flash Light => There is commonly two types of flash lights are used in camera mobile phones, LED Flash (LED flash offers lower power consumption with drive circuitry that takes up very little room, LEDs can be strobed faster than any other light source), Xenon Flash (xenon flash produces an extremely intense full-spectrum white light for a very short duration)

Yes with Dual-LED Flash LED Flash
Front Camera

5 MP 5 MP

Network

SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages.

Nano SIM Nano SIM
Dual SIM

Nano + Nano Yes (With Hybrid MicroSD Expansion)

Connectivity

Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world.

Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, 802.11n 5GHz, Dual band, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi Display, Wi-Fi Hotspot, MU-MiMO Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Single Band, Wi-Fi Direct
USB

Type-C USB v3.0 with Host, OTG, Charging and Mass Storage Function USB-C 2.0
GPS GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky.

Yes, with A-GPS , Beidou , GLONASS , GPS Yes - GPS/ AGPS
NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches.

Yes No
Wireless Charging Wireless Charging (Inductive Charging) uses an electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects. This is usually done with a charging station. Energy is sent through an inductive coupling to an electrical device, which can then use that energy to charge batteries or run the device.

Yes
Headphone Jack

Yes No

Battery

Capacity Battery Capacity

3,400 mAh
Placement

Non-Removable (Built-in) Non-Removable

Media

Video Playback

3GP, MPEG4
Video Out

Yes With Wireless Media Link
FM Radio

Yes
Ring Tones

MP3, WAV ringtones Yes
Loudspeaker

Yes with Stereo Dual Bottom Speakers Yes

Data

4G LTE 4G LTE bands

LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 12(700), 13(700), 17(700), 18(800), 19(800), 20(800), 25(1900), 26(850), 27(800), 28(700), 29(700), 30(2300), 34(2000), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500)
Speed

HSPA, HSPA+, LTE