The Redmi Note 2 is built around a 5.5 inch 1080p display, and with a 13 megapixel back camera, a 5 megapixel selfie shooter, and a 3,060mAh battery. The phone runs MIUI 7 based on Android 5.0 Lollipop.

With 2GB of RAM, the Redmi Note 2 is available in two storage options – 16GB and 32GB. The phone is powered by a MediaTek Helio X10 SoC with an octa-core processor clocking at 2GHz (16GB model), and 2.2GHz (32GB model).

An international version of MIUI 7 will be released in New Delhi on August 19. The Redmi Note 2 may also be announced for India on the same day.  It will have a Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset.