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I have covered the Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro quite a bit in the past, it is the cheapest flagship spec phone on the market, undercutting the superb Realme X50 Pro. The phone is a rebadged Redmi K30 Pro which has received outstanding reviews from both users and critics alike. Xiaomi officially launched the Poco F2…
It is reported that Xiaomi is prepping the launch of one of their most affordable phones of the year, the Redmi 9. It is expected the launch will be on the 25th of June and as usual for Redmi devices, it won’t be launching in the UK immediately. Currently, the older Redmi 8 is sold…
Redmi has officially launched the Redmi K30i 5G in China without much fanfare. This is likely because there is not much to say or get excited about. The phone is essentially identical to the Redmi K30 5G which was announced in December 2019 with one minor spec change. The main camera has been swapped from…
Yesterday Xiaomi officially announced MIUI 12 with a wide range of updates including some privacy focussed improvements. With Android 10 being the current version of Android this update will be based on this, but I would assume it will later be integrated with Android 11. App Drawers Many of the Chinese based manufacturers have a…
Xiaomi is on a mission to launch as many phones as physically possible, either under the Xiaomi or one of their sub-brands such as Redmi and Pocofone. Yesterday they launched the Redmi K30 5G Racing Edition with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 768G 5G chipset. Today they are due to launch the Pocofone F2 Pro which…
Previously it was leaked that the new Xiaomi Redmi K30 would be the Speed Edition, it appears something got lost in translation, and the new phone is officially called Redmi K30 5G Racing Edition. This will be the first phone to feature the brand new Qualcomm Snapdragon 768G chipset which will offer up to 15%…
With the launch of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 9, I wrote a scathing comparison of the new MediaTek Helio G85 with its pitiful 50Mhz difference in GPU frequencies compared to the existing, unimpressive, Helio G80. If we ignore my belief that the MediaTek Helio G85 is just a marketing stunt by announcing a brand-new chipset…
LG will be launching their new Velvet on the 7th of May, however, they have already announced the full specification and what it looks like, so the only details to be released are how much it costs and global availability. This is another new phone that will feature the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G which is quickly…
In a surprise announcement, during the EU launch of the Xiaomi Mi 10 series, Xiaomi announced the Mi 10 Lite 5G, an affordable 5G phone based on the Snapdragon 765G chipset. Their sub-brand Redmi already has the K30 5G which was announced back in December, more recently Nokia announced their Nokia 8.3 also based on…
Only a few companies have launched a flagship so far this year, and Xiaomi is already on their second. The launch of the Redmi K30 Pro models give Xiaomi a more affordable option to the existing Mi 10 Pro 5G and gives them something to compete with against the other affordable flagship, the Realme X50…
Xiaomi sub-brand Redmi has just announced their latest affordable mid-range phone, the Redmi Note 9 Pro Max, because a Pro moniker wasn’t enough. Chipset During the announcement, Redmi highlighted how good the new Snapdragon 720G and how one publication, TechPP stated that the Snapdragon 720G is actually better than the Snapdragon 730G and Helio G90T….
The Snapdragon 720G is the latest chipset from Qualcomm sitting below the 5G equipped SD765G and will feature in many of the affordable mid-range phones this year. One such phone is the Redmi Note 9 Pro which launches tomorrow on the 12th, and one YouTuber appears to have benchmarked the new phone in Antutu, and…