The Redmi K30 Pro is coming on March 24
and the company has started drip-feeding us its specifications. We already know
the K30 Pro will be powered by the Snapdragon 865 SoC, support 5G networks, and
sport a 64MP quad camera. Now the Chinese phone maker has released a new image
of the flagship, which once again confirms it will sport a notchless display.
However, unlike the vanilla K30, the Pro
model won't offer a 120Hz screen refresh rate. Not even 90Hz, since the company
decided to settle with a 60Hz panel. But, this will be an AMOLED panel from
Samsung and Redmi promises remarkable quality. An AMOLED screen also means the
phone will come with an in-display fingerprint scanner, instead of the
side-mounted reader seen on the K30.
That said, it's not just the refresh rate
that has come down, the number of selfie cameras has also decreased from two to
one. It is mounted on a pop-up mechanism which will retract automatically when
a fall is detected.
Redmi has uploaded a series of new teasers
on its Weibo account, pertaining to the Redmi K30 Pro and its cameras. Judging
by the slides the Redmi K30 Pro will have not one, but two 64MP Sony IMX686
sensors on board - one used as the main camera and the other tasked with telephoto
shots. The specs claim 3x of optical zoom and up to 30x of digital zoom, quite
similar to the Samsung Galaxy S20/S20+.
The 64MP sensor is big at 1/1.7-inch and
uses 4-in-1 binning for 16M 1.6μm-sized pixels. It's also capable of 8K video
capture. The Redmi K30 Pro's camera versatility. It can go from 0.6x to 30x,
that's from the ultrawide to the digitally-zoomed 64MP tele. The twin 64MP
cameras both offer optical image stabilization, which Redmi claims controls all
4 axis thanks to data from the gyroscope as well as the accelerometer.
And finally, the Redmi K30 Pro will come
in yet another new color - grey. It's now been teased to come in
Purple, Blue and White.
