On February 16, Redmi officially released the redmi K50 esports edition of their first flagship phone of the year, which is also the second phone to focus on esports games since Redmi launched the Redmi K40 game enhancement last year.
In terms of shape design, the Redmi K50 e-sports version has three colors of shadow, ice chop and silver wing, the back of the fuselage is designed around the X element as a whole, the back cover adopts a matte homologous process, with a streamlined contour style and four sides of the same depth, the camera area also has 16 million colors of ambience lights. The phone still uses the side fingerprint unlock scheme, the fuselage weight is 210g, 8.5mm thick, and the operating system is MIUI 13.
In addition to the esports version, Redmi also cooperated with the Mercedes-AMG F1 team to create a co-branded mobile phone Redmi K50 Championship Edition, the back of the fuselage incorporates AMG-F1 team-exclusive elements, Redmi K50 Championship Edition also has a delicate gift box packaging, and comes standard with a 120W Gan charger.
The front of the phone is a 6.67-inch Huaxing optoelectronic flexible OLED screen with a central digging hole, which supports 120Hz high brush, a resolution of 2400* 1080, supports 10-bit color depth display, supports 480Hz touch sampling rate, the screen has been factory calibrated and passed displayMate A+ certification, and also uses 1920Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, which solves the strobe problem under the low brightness of conventional OLED.
The right side of the fuselage still adds pop-up shoulder keys, and strengthens the stability of the toggle switch, will not easily shake, the button nudge is changed to silicone material, strengthening the shoulder key impact experience. And in the mobile game scene, the segmented trigger function can be realized, and the press and lifting of the shoulder button can be performed different operations. Custom shortcut settings can also be made in non-gaming mode, allowing you to quickly turn on the camera or flashlight, expanding the practicality of the shoulder button.
The processor is currently the top SOC in the Android camp - Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, as well as a full-blood version of LPDDR5 memory and an upgraded version of UFS 3.1 flash memory. In order to make Snapdragon 8 can continue to produce stable high performance, Redmi K50 gaming edition has put a lot of effort into the heat dissipation design, using a multi-dimensional three-dimensional heat dissipation system, separating the heat source of the processor and the charging IC heat source, and avoiding heat source concentration through partition temperature control, and also using a large area of main VC and a smaller size sub-VC to connect the heat source through graphene, the back of the phone uses 3D high-power graphite, and the internal antenna uses aerospace graphene to dissipate heat from the antenna area.
The external sound quality has also been upgraded, adding JBL widescreen four-unit speakers, the speakers are located at the top and bottom right of the fuselage, and the top and bottom speakers have a set of 0611 tweeters and 1115 subwoofers, as well as JBL's tuning technology, when holding the phone to play games, the fingers will not touch the camera module on the back.
In order to solve the players' battery life anxiety, Redmi K50 e-sports version built-in 4700mAh battery, support 120W wired fast charging, the official said that 17 minutes can charge the phone to 100%, and in the 25 ° C room temperature environment, while charging while playing 120 frame mode of the king glory also only needs 37 minutes to fully charge.
Vibration motor also has a pile, Redmi K50 esports version is equipped with CyberEngine ultra-widescreen X-axis motor, the official said that this is the current Android camp of the largest size of the X-axis vibration motor, this vibration motor using the third generation of ESA integrated multi-stage magnetic steel structure, both with ultra-wide frequency characteristics, covering 50Hz-500Hz, vibration volume can be comparable to the iPhone 13 series, this vibration motor now supports "Peace Elite", "Oracle" and "Ace Racing" And the game's 4D vibration, and for this motor, the MIUI system has also specially tuned 95 life scenes for this motor.
In terms of network optimization, the Redmi K50 e-sports version is equipped with an e-sports 3 Wi-Fi antenna, and the horizontal or vertical grip of the mobile phone can ensure that at least one Wi-Fi antenna will not be blocked, solving the signal interference problem when the mobile phone is held, and the mobile phone also supports the Wi-Fi 6 enhanced version, and the peak rate can reach 3.5Gbps.
In terms of camera specifications, the Redmi K50 gaming version adopts a rear three-camera scheme, the main camera is 1/1.7-inch 64 million pixels Sony IMX686, ultra-wide angle secondary camera 8 million pixels, and a 2 million pixel macro secondary camera. The front camera of the center cut hole is the 20-megapixel Sony IMX596.
In addition, the infrared light power of the Redmi K50 e-sports version has also been strengthened, the remote control distance of the positive angle can be up to 20 meters, the remote control angle is up to 50 °, so that the infrared remote control becomes more practical, the multi-functional NFC is also the standard of mobile phones, a mobile phone to get the bus card, access control card and car key.
At the same time as the launch of the Redmi K50 esports Edition, Redmi also released a new esports router AX5400, magnetic heat dissipation back clip and metal heat dissipation phone case, of which the AX5400 router has 16 million colors of e-sports atmosphere breathing lights on the front, showing a strong e-sports style. The router has a 2.5G network port, built-in AX6000 with the same Qualcomm processor, wireless speed up to 5400Mbps, support for Wi-Fi 6 enhanced version, support for all-platform game acceleration, And add bonus attributes with reduced latency when using Xiaomi or Redmi mobile phones.
Finally looking at the price, the Redmi K50 esports version of the 8+128GB version is priced at 3299 yuan, the 12+128GB version is priced at 3599 yuan, the 12+256GB version is priced at 3899 yuan, the 12+256GB Redmi K50 champion version is priced at 4199 yuan, the AX5400 esports router is priced at 599 yuan, the starting price is 549 yuan, and the limited number is 10000 units. Metal heat dissipation mobile phone case priced at 99 yuan, magnetic heat dissipation back clip priced at 199 yuan.
It can be seen that the Redmi K50 e-sports version will be performance, charging, external amplifier and motor vibration four aspects are full, love to play mobile game players can pay attention to this phone.