Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite launched together with Mi A2 as the second iteration of Mi A series in Madrid, Spain. As Mi A2 Lite target is a more budget-friendly audience without sacrificed any shortfall of hardware specification.
Out of the box, A2 Lite has ~52GB of unused storage and about ~18% used for it system OS and few applications.
Not a single bloatware are found in A2 Lite, beside Xiaomi's own application such as Camera, Mi Drop for file transfer and Mi Remote as both A2 and A2 Lite has IR blaster.
A2 Lite has a 5.84" inch 18:9 FHD+ display panel at 1080x2280 with notch and with a pixel density of 432. Both indoor and outdoor viewing visibility is decent, the only thing I'll pick on is the usual Xiaomi automatic brightness as adjusting either too dark or too bright depending the condition.
During my usage, some application seems to have display proportional issues and has a large chunk of unused black space at the bottom section of the screen.
With its huge battery and tri-slot advantage, some shortchange are found such as no Wireless A/C for faster download speed, No NFC (same as A2) and a more plastic-like built. Last but not least, no USB Type C port... *digging by micro USB cable...*
Amazing battery life on A2 Lite getting almost 3 hours of screen on time (SOT) with about ~40% left at end of the day.
A2 Lite supports Quick Charge 3.0 as shown below 'Charging Rapidly' and I'm using Aukey Quick Charge enable power brick.
Similar to A2 and the A2 Lite as a dual camera setup which supports PDAF technology, it a pair of 12MP main sensor and a 5MP secondary sensor for AI portrait and depth mode. The front camera is a 5MP AI-powered portrait mode with Xiaomi's Beautify 4.0.
Photo quality looks decent in certain good lighting conditions, however, it suffered badly in low lighting condition. Unlike the A2's amazing photo quality and its reproduction, the A2 Lite looks washed out when comparing to it bigger brother.
Here are some sample shots:
Verdict?
A well-balanced phone in the performance and battery department with a promised of the huge stock Android update that would not hurt your bank.
A2 Lite sports a Qualcomm Snapdragon ... ... *drum-roll* ... ... and yes, its 625 SoC yet again... Along with two variants - 32GB with 3GB RAM and 64GB with 4GB RAM. A large battery of 4000 mha built-in. A tri-slot is available on A2 Lite which means it supports 2 nano sim card and a microSD slot.
Out of the box, A2 Lite has ~52GB of unused storage and about ~18% used for it system OS and few applications.
Not a single bloatware are found in A2 Lite, beside Xiaomi's own application such as Camera, Mi Drop for file transfer and Mi Remote as both A2 and A2 Lite has IR blaster.
A2 Lite has a 5.84" inch 18:9 FHD+ display panel at 1080x2280 with notch and with a pixel density of 432. Both indoor and outdoor viewing visibility is decent, the only thing I'll pick on is the usual Xiaomi automatic brightness as adjusting either too dark or too bright depending the condition.
During my usage, some application seems to have display proportional issues and has a large chunk of unused black space at the bottom section of the screen.
With its huge battery and tri-slot advantage, some shortchange are found such as no Wireless A/C for faster download speed, No NFC (same as A2) and a more plastic-like built. Last but not least, no USB Type C port... *digging by micro USB cable...*
Amazing battery life on A2 Lite getting almost 3 hours of screen on time (SOT) with about ~40% left at end of the day.
A2 Lite supports Quick Charge 3.0 as shown below 'Charging Rapidly' and I'm using Aukey Quick Charge enable power brick.
Similar to A2 and the A2 Lite as a dual camera setup which supports PDAF technology, it a pair of 12MP main sensor and a 5MP secondary sensor for AI portrait and depth mode. The front camera is a 5MP AI-powered portrait mode with Xiaomi's Beautify 4.0.
Photo quality looks decent in certain good lighting conditions, however, it suffered badly in low lighting condition. Unlike the A2's amazing photo quality and its reproduction, the A2 Lite looks washed out when comparing to it bigger brother.
Here are some sample shots:
Verdict?
A well-balanced phone in the performance and battery department with a promised of the huge stock Android update that would not hurt your bank.