The Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S is real and is coming with Android Oreo and a 3400 mAh Battery

The Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S is real and is coming with Android Oreo and a 3400 mAh Battery
Xiaomi smartphones rarely make their way outside of China and India, and that’s a shame because of their great value. The Xiaomi Mi A1 is perhaps the best Android One device to date, and the newly announced Redmi Note 5 & Note 5 Pro are already contenders for the best mid-rangers on the market. Xiaomi also releases several flagship devices in its Mi series of devices, but the one brand that has caught the world’s attention is the Mi Mix series—the phones that started the bezel-less craze. The second generation Mi Mix 2 was announced late last year, and for the first time we now have confirmation that a long-rumored successor, the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S, is indeed real.

Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S, code-named “polaris,” will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC and will have a 3,400 mAh battery. We can also confirm that the device is running Android 8.0 Oreo out of the box, which is great news as it means the device is Project Treble compatible. Finally, we can also confirm that the display will have an 18:9 aspect ratio with a FHD+(2160×1080) resolution, since that matches the “polaris” exclusive wallpaper we obtained.

There are also rumors that the device may support AI camera features, and we did find evidence for that. We decompiled the stock MIUI camera app on the Mi Mix 2S and found that the device will have scene recognition support, which sounds similar to what its competitor, the Huawei Mate 10, offers. According to our teardown, the following scenes will be recognized by the Mi Mix 2S camera app:

Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S AI Camera Scenes

doc (document)
flower
food
sky
sunrise/sunset
cat
dog
green plants
night
snow
sea
autumn
candlelight
car
grass
maple leaves
succulent (?)
building
city
cloud
overcast
backlight
One rumor that has been circulating is whether or not the device will feature Sony’s IMX363 camera sensor. While we can’t 100% confirm it, we did find binaries for the sensor embedded in the vendor partition, so it’s a pretty safe assumption that the rumor is true.

Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S

A few other features mentioned in Xiaomi’s configuration files are that the device will be dual SIM (though that was never really in doubt), support an IR blaster, and will have an LED light—most likely for notifications. For the camera, the usual MIUI features will be there however the properties for “object tracking,” “automatic HDR,” and “chroma flash” are set to false so I assume those won’t be available.

The firmware is massive, so there’s a lot to dig through. If I find anything else interesting, you’ll be sure to know on the XDA Portal. For now, enjoy knowing that the rumored Mi Mix 2S is real, and it will be one beast of a phone when it is announced
Source Weibo and XDA