Here is the mobile phone Selfie Xiaomi Redmi S2

Xiaomi Redmi S2 is the first selfie phone of Xiaomi. (Medcom.id)

Jakarta: Oppo has entered the list of the top five suppliers in Indonesia through its own selfie phone. In addition to Oppo, Vivo also entered the Indonesian market with selfie smartphone as his home.

Meanwhile, Xiaomi is generally adamant to offer high specification phones at affordable prices. At least until last month. At the end of May, Xiaomi finally released his first phone selfie Xiaomi Redmi S2.

Does this phone only have a front camera as its top feature? Here is the complete review.

Design

In terms of design, Xiaomi Redmi S2 is very similar to Redmi Note 5. Xiaomi Redmi S2 has a round fingerprint sensor in the middle back. At the top left you will find two cameras mounted vertically.

At the bottom of the phone, there is a charger port USB Type-A flanked by speakers on both sides. Just like most of the latest mobile phones, Xiaomi Redmi S2 has a nice thin bezel. However, the bezel at the top and bottom is still quite thick.

Of course, Xiaomi Redmi S2 exists in a different clbad with the high-end Mi Mix 2 phones that have a design without bezel .

One thing that distinguishes Xiaomi Redmi S2 with Redmi Note 5 is the line antenna. If the Redmi Note 5 antenna line is clearly visible at the top, in Xiaomi S2, the antenna line follows the top edge of the phone.

Software and Interface

Xiaomi Redmi S2 uses Android 8.1 Oreo with MIUI 9. The phone comes with some typical features of Xiaomi as Second Space and Dual Apps. The Two Applications feature allows you to create clones from an application. This feature will be useful if you have two social media accounts, allowing you to open both at the same time.

Although Second Space creates a brand new setting, it seems like you have two phones with different apps and accounts. Just like any other phone that has used Oreo, Xiaomi Redmi S2 also supports multitasking allows you to open two apps at once.

In addition to fingerprint sensors, Xiaomi also equips S2 with a function of unlocking faces. With this feature, you can unlock the phone by simply pointing the front camera at your face. Unfortunately, while using this phone, I think that the function of unlocking the face is still not as smooth as the fingerprint sensor.

Xiaomi Redmi S2 still quite often does not recognize my face either because when I use glbades or when I'm in a place that is not too bright.

Camera

Xiaomi Redmi S2 produces very good photos when used outdoors with sufficient light levels. The picture of Xiaomi S2 when he was used to taking pictures at night was pretty good, even if the photo still has noise or noise .

Xiaomi installed two rear cameras with resolutions of 12MP and 5MP. These two cameras allow you to take pictures with Bokeh effects or fuzzy backgrounds. Interestingly, Xiaomi Redmi S2 does not have two cameras on the front.

Unfortunately, the photo with the effect Bokeh is not always good. Sometimes the blur effect on a photo does not appear uniform because there is a part of the background that is not visible blurry or part of the object that it's scrambled.

Example photo with rear camera Xiaomi Redmi S2. Only, the hands of the silhouette have blurred air.

Xiaomi Redmi S2 only has a front camera with a resolution of 16MP. Nevertheless, Xiaomi provides his phone with the software that allows you to take pictures of selfie with the effect Bokeh.

Here is an example of a photo with an S2 front camera with and without the Bokeh effect.

Photo with Xiaomi S2 front camera with Bokeh effect.

Xiaomi Redmi S2 front camera without Bokeh effect.

The front camera of Xiaomi Redmi S2 can also produce a Bokeh effect even if more than one photo object.

Like most smartphones today, Xiaomi has equipped the S2 front camera with the Beautify function. Here, the Beautify feature is available in five levels, although I do not see much difference between photos with Level 1 and Level 5 effects. You can also use the "Advanced" mode to alter the changes you want to make on the photo.

Performance and Battery

Xiaomi decides to install Snapdragon 625 for her selfie phone. This processor belongs to the middle clbad of Qualcomm. The performance is also quite good with efficient energy consumption.

Only, this processor is quite old, since it was launched in 2016. Since then, Qualcomm has launched several new processors in the Snapdragon 600 range. For example Snapdragon 636, which Xiaomi uses on Redmi Note 5.

Xiaomi Redmi S2 has 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory. Although on paper does not look too good, but this phone can provide good performance for everyday activities, ranging from surfing the Internet, listening to music to playing games.

Yes, although worn as a selfie phone, Xiaomi Redmi S2 has a pretty good performance to play the game. Xiaomi Redmi S2 can be used to play PUBG Mobile games with intermediate level graphics. For comparison, Vivo V9, which rated Rp4 million, can only play PUBG at the low graphical level.

You can see the performance comparison in the graph below. It's just that Xiaomi Redmi S2 can not be used to try benchmark Slingshot Extreme OpenGL.

Xiaomi Redmi S2 also can not be tested using PCMark to test the battery. However, when Medcom tested it while playing video repeatedly, the Xiaomi Redmi S2 battery was only reduced by 40% when it was used to play a video during 4 hours with a brightness level of 50%.

Conclusion
Xiaomi offers selfies at a more affordable price than its competitors. In addition, Xiaomi Redmi S2 also has performance and battery is quite capable. Although not having two front cameras, Xiaomi S2 lets you take pictures with the effects of Bokeh, which is now a trend.

Xiaomi Redmi S2 is also equipped with two rear cameras for the Bokeh effect. Unfortunately, photos with blurred background generated are not always beautiful. Beautify feature of this phone is also quite standard without special features.

	Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
GPU	Adreno 506
Operating System	MIUI 9, Android 8.1 Oreo
RAM	3GB	32GB
Camera [19659039] 12MP + 5MP (rear) + 16MP (front)
Battery	3,080 mAh
Screen	5.99 inches ratio 18: 9 HD + (1440 x 720 pixels)
Price	Rp2.399.000

(MMI)