February 7th, the seventh day of the first lunar calendar, according to our customs, today is the first day of work in the Year of the Tiger, for mobile phone manufacturers, today is also the beginning of a new round of new machine warm-up.
At 10:01 a.m., Lu Weibing pointed out on Weibo, "Originally I planned to announce the release time of the K50 directly today, but the result was severely stopped by the marketing department, saying 'good food can wait a little'."
Some netizens speculate that the first flagship of the Redmi K50 series will be released on February 25 or 28. Lu Weibing replied: "It won't be that late. Although the official has not yet announced the exact release time, it is basically certain that the machine will be released this month.
It is worth noting that Lu Weibing's Weibo tail was changed to "K50 Android" as early as the Chinese New Year's Eve day.
Since the official is called "K50 Universe", the number of mobile phones in this series will naturally not be less.
According to the previously exposed model, this time there is a Redmi K50 esports version, which may also be the first mobile phone of the "K50 Universe" to be released. This phone will be equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8, and the game performance will have a very significant improvement over the previous generation, before the Redmi K40 game enhancement version used the Tianji 1200.
Given that Lu Weibing has said "this time to see how the K50 how to train the dragon", it seems that in the performance and power balance performance of the Snapdragon 8, this phone should be much better. According to reports, the first mobile phone of the "K50 Universe" will also be equipped with dual VC, 120W flash charge, broadband motor and so on.
In addition to the e-sports version, there is also the K50 series, there will be Redmi K50, Redmi K50 Pro, Redmi K50 Pro+ three models, respectively equipped with Snapdragon 870, Tianji 8000, Tianji 9000 series chips. But the release time of these three phones may be slightly later than the e-sports version, and this has something to do with the Tianji 9000.
Before OPPO has officially announced, Tianji 9000 will be launched by a new generation of Find X series, then the K50 series that also uses this chip will be launched after OPPO, and the time is expected to be around March.
Since the K50 series was exposed, you can see the netizens who urged change every day under the Weibo of Lu Weibing, @Redmi Redmi mobile phone. This situation has a lot to do with the excellent performance of K40, snapdragon 870 plus 1999 yuan price, at least at first glance there is no reason to refuse.
So at this time, the question is, how will the K50 series be priced? A few days ago, some netizens exposed the starting price of the series of mobile phones on overseas social platforms, for reference only.
Redmi K50, equipped with Snapdragon 870 processor, supports 67W fast charging, priced from 1999 yuan.
Redmi K50 Pro, equipped with Tianji 8000, supports 66W fast charging, and is priced from 2699 yuan.
Redmi K50 Pro+, equipped with Tianji 9000, supports 120W fast charging, and is priced from 3299 yuan.
Redmi K50 e-sports version, equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen1, supports 120W fast charging, and is priced from 3499 yuan.
If the price is true, the K50 continues the positioning of the previous K40, and the positioning of the K50 Pro+ and the esports version is further explored, and the possibility of competition with the Xiaomi Mi 12 series is not ruled out. However, in order to avoid left-right hand combat, the K50 series may be complementary to the Xiaomi Mi 12 series in some configurations, for example, more inclined to image is more suitable for choosing the latter, and more aggressive performance release is preferred to choose the former.
From this point of view, this year's K50 series will be more targeted than last year.