Xiaomi Mi A2 to be sold exclusively on Amazon when it arrives in India

Xiaomi Mi A2 which is slated to launch in India on 8 August would be sold exclusively on Amazon.

The Chinese smartphone maker’s latest offering was globally launched on 24 July in Madrid. Now the device will be arriving in Indian.

A tweet by Manu Kumar Jain, Xiaomi’s global vice president, unveiled the launch date. A page on Amazon has put up a Xiaomi Mi A2 ‘Notify Me’  button already.

Now while there was uncertainty whether its younger sibling, the Xiaomi A2 Lite would also be launched, as per Amazon’s banner page**,** there is no sign of the Lite version coming to India.

Two variants of the Mi A2 were launched in Madrid. It included a 4 GB RAM with 32/64 GB of internal storage and a 6 GB RAM with 128 GB of internal storage. It sports a 5.99-inch full HD Plus display with 18:9 aspect ratio. Interestingly, the Mi A2 runs on stock Android One and is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 SoC with AI capabilities.

It boasts of a dual camera setup with 12 MP+20 MP camera unit with a LED flash. On the front, it has a 20 MP sensor. It comes with AI capabilities which include the AI Portrait mode.

When it was launched in Madrid, the 4 GB RAM/64 GB variant was priced €279 (roughly Rs 22,000), 4 GB RAM/32 GB variant cost €249 (roughly Rs 20,000) and the 6 GB RAM/128 GB offering was priced at €349 (Rs 28,000).