Originally posted on TechCrunch:
Xiaomi announced today that it sold over 60 million smartphones in 2014 but the Chinese company didn't stop there after it unveiled its newest entry-level phone: the Redmi 2.
The company's flagship Mi devices may attract all the attention, but the sub-$150 Redmi family is its biggest seller. Back in July of last year, Xiaomi revealed it had sold 18 million Redmi (/Hongmi as it is known in China) phones and 3.56 million Redmi Note phablets. The Redmi alone accounted for one-third of total sales at the time.
The Redmi 2 keeps much of the original model's ingredients. It has the same 4.7-inch, 1280 x 720 display, but under the hood there's an upgraded Qualcomm 410 quad-core processor. The device sports an 8-megapixel rear camera, improved 2-megapixel front camera, 1GB RAM and 8GB on-device storage. There is now dual 4G SIM support too.
The Redmi 2 - which runs Xiaomi's own MIUI version of Android - also gives...
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