Xiaomi could be eyeing to refresh the Note
series of Smartphones in China soon. A recent tip indicates that the company
might launch a new Redmi smartphone in China and it could be a Redmi Note 9 5G.
The latest tip comes from reliable tipster Digital Chat station, who hints at
the birth of a new Redmi 5G smartphone. A few days back, he himself had posted
a few specifications of an unknown device and asked users to guess the price on
Weibo.
Today, he has sparked off the rumour mill
hinting that the device could be a new Redmi smartphone. According to him, the
device will have an LCD display with a 120Hz refresh rate screen. Qualcomm’s
Snapdragon 765G 5G SoC is said to power the device. This will mark the entry of
5G on the Note series of smartphones. The company is yet to debut one in the
series. But, it has unveiled several 5G powered devices recently with the
latest being the Redmi 10X 5G. Despite the tip, what’s puzzling is that the
Redmi K30i already exists in Redmi’s arsenal as the cheapest 5G phone. And it
has these exact same specifications. Hence, the Redmi Note 9 5G sporting
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 690 5G chip makes more sense.
However, the interesting part is that the
tipster hinted at a 48MP camera on the device and this could be a downgrade if
launched under the Redmi Note branding. If we recall, the Redmi Note 8 series
debuted with a 64MP sensor and the Note 9 series has followed it this year as
well.
In our guess, Xiaomi could position the
device as a cheap 5G-ready phone rather than an upgraded version of its predecessors.
Other than this, the tipster also said the phone will have a 5,000mAh battery
and support 33W fast charging. As promised by Lu Weibing earlier this year,
Xiaomi has been launching a lot of 5G-Ready smartphones in 2020. The company
debuted with a 5G version of the Redmi K30 back in December 2019.
This was followed by a flurry of devices
including the Redmi K30i, K30 Pro Xiaomi’s Flagship Mi 10 series, and a new X
series of smartphones. However, the
company is yet to refresh the Redmi’s Note series after the Note 8 Pro in
China. As hinted by the tipster, the current cheapest Redmi 5G device is the
K30i selling at CNY1499 for the 6GB/128GB variant and there is a possibility
that Xiaomi could surprise us with a lower-priced Redmi device.
With the latest leak, it seems the company
is getting ready to launch the cheapest 5G phone ever. Let’s wait for more info
as we march ahead in the coming days.