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Redmi Flagship Smartphone With Snapdragon 855 SoC in the Works, CEO Confirms

Redmi Flagship Smartphone With Snapdragon 855 SoC in the Works, CEO Confirms 2031

By Aditya Shenoy | Updated: 4 February 2019 12:43 IST

Photo Credit: Weibo/ Lu Weibing 3q5430

Highlights

Redmi is working on a Snapdragon 855 powered flagship
Redmi Note 7 Pro is also in the works
The Redmi Note 7 could launch in India soon

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Redmi started off as a series of affordable smartphones from Xiaomi but has now turned into an independent entity. The first smartphone in the new Redmi by Xiaomi brand, the Redmi Note 7, managed to gather a lot of attention primarily because of what it had to offer for the price. The main USP of this smartphone was the 48-megapixel Samsung GM1 sensor which is a part of the dual camera setup. The company has also teased the Redmi Note 7 Pro as well as another Redmi flagship device, while details are emerging slowly, launch timelines are a bit more uncertain.

While Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun had Xiaomi's R&D facility in Shenzhen discuscoming smartphones from Redmi.

Lu Weibing said that the team discussed two smartphones in detail, the Redmi Note 7 Pro and the other referred to as the “855 Flaship”. This pretty much confirms that the new company will also be making flagship spec phones, something entirely different from what the Redmi series is known for.

The first smartphone from Redmi, the launched a budget smartphone called the Redmi Go in Philippines running Android Oreo (Go edition).

While an affordable flagship smartphone is something a lot of people look forward to, Redmi hasn't given a timeline for this “855 Flagship” yet.

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Xiaomi Redmi K20 4y2k6x

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Design
Display
Software
Performance
Battery Life
Camera
Value for Money

Good
Smooth, lag-free performance
Appealing design
Great battery life

Bad
Underwhelming low-light camera performance
Quite slippery
No expandable storage
Slow front camera pop-up mechanism

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Display 6.39-inch

Processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

Front Camera 20-megapixel

Rear Camera 48-megapixel + 8-megapixel + 13-megapixel

RAM 6GB

Storage 64GB

Battery Capacity 4000mAh

OS Android Pie

Resolution 1080x2340 pixels

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