Almost this time last year, the Redmi K40 universe, known as the flagship "doorman", officially debuted, relying on high cost performance and comprehensive configuration, successfully "welding doors" for a whole year. This evening, the Redmi K50 esports edition was officially released, as the first model of the "K50 Universe", can it continue the legend of the Redmi K series?
Appearance and design
Redmi K50 Esports Edition Design Language Engineer inherits from the K40 Game Enhanced Edition, equipped with pop-up physical shoulder buttons, side fingerprint unlocks, and a tough fully straight-edged frame design, symbolizing the "X" of esports and games everywhere: from the back contour, the breathing lights on the main camera module, to the volume key texture, speaker openings, and nuanced. Compared with other esports phones, the Redmi K50 esports version has a slightly more restrained style and is better matched.
The aircraft offers three color schemes, namely Shadow, Blade and Ice Chopper. The thickness of the mobile phone is 8.5mm, the weight is 210g, and it is relatively thin and light in the game phone and e-sports mobile phone.
The Redmi K50 esports Edition also co-branded with the Mercedes-Benz F1 Team and brought the Redmi K50 "Champion Edition", which has a top-of-the-line 12+256GB configuration, limited to 10,000 units, a custom body design, a customized box compared to other versions, and a higher 120W Gallium nitride charger.
Screen and performance
Redmi K50 Esports Edition uses Huaxing Optoelectronics Flexible OLED direct screen, covering Corning Gorilla Victus glass, this screen has DisplayMate A+ certification and 15 records, the screen size is 6.67 inches, the resolution is 2400 x 1080, support 120Hz refresh rate, 480Hz touch sampling rate, the contrast ratio can reach 5 million:1, support HDR10+, DCI-P3 color gamut, MEMC motion frame repair. The screen supports 1920Hz high-frequency PWC dimming, which is more eye-friendly.
For the game experience, the Redmi K50 esports edition is equipped with 10 times high precision touch, which can increase the screen touch partition to 24000 x 10800, and drag more accurately in games with higher precision requirements.
In terms of performance, the Redmi K50 gaming edition is equipped with Qualcomm's new generation Snapdragon 8, with 8/12GB LPDDR5 memory and 128/256GB UFS 3.1 storage. The new generation of Snapdragon 8 is based on Samsung's 4nm process, upgrading the new generation of Armv9 architecture, Cortex-X2 super core, a new generation of Adreno 730 GPU, AI engine and image processor have been greatly upgraded. According to the GFXBench Manhattan test, the Snapdragon 8's GPU is 52% better than the Snapdragon 888. In addition, the Redmi K50 gaming edition is also equipped with IO Turbo 2.0 technology, which improves decompression performance by 100% and file copy performance by 300%.
While the performance is improved, the heat dissipation of the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile phones is also of concern. Redmi K50 e-sports edition is equipped with a "multi-dimensional stereoscopic cooling system" known as the "frozen universe", using a large area dual VC known as the industry's largest 4860mm2, supplemented by a heat source separation layout, improving thermal conductivity at the same time, charging speed while playing in the scene is also improved. According to the official redmi, in the King of Glory 120 frame mode while playing and charging, full charge also takes only 37 minutes, greatly ahead of friendly mobile phones.
Thanks to the powerful performance and heat dissipation stack, Redmi said that the Redmi K50 esports edition achieves a "running score game" "Original God" running near full frame, while the temperature is controlled at 44 °C.
At the right time, Redmi also launched two cooling back clips at the press conference, priced at 99 yuan and 199 yuan respectively.
Charging, imaging and others
In terms of charging and battery, the Redmi K50 gaming version is equipped with a 120W "fairy second charge", with a 4700mAh dual battery, which can be charged to 100% in 17 minutes. By the way, the name of the immortal second charge is quite secondary two, but it may be more conducive to publicity. For users who are not familiar with the fast charge specifications, the loud and rough name is easier to deepen the impression.
In terms of imaging, the Redmi K50 gaming edition is equipped with a rear-facing triple camera combination, the main camera is a 64MP Sony IMX686 (1/1.7" sensor, f/1.9 aperture), with an 8MP ultra-wide camera, and a 2-megapixel macro "tactical lens". The front camera is 20 megapixels and the sensor is sony IMX596.
It is worth mentioning that the Redmi K50 gaming version is also equipped with an anti-flicker sensor Flicker Sensor, which can detect the frequency of the light source, obtain the cycle of the light source, cooperate with the camera exposure time, eliminate the phenomenon of strobe, and eliminate the strobe occlusion that occurs when shooting the screen and shooting the projection. For users who often have to shoot screen and projector content, this function has a certain practicality.
In addition, the Redmi K50 features AAC's CyberEngine X-axis linear motor 1016, which has a large size and high vibration. The machine is equipped with JBL broadband four-unit speakers, a powerful stereo sound field, and a three-microphone microphone for gaming, which can effectively prevent squealing and echo, and support intelligent anti-blocking cherches.
In addition, the Redmi K50 comes pre-installed with an Android 12-based MIUI 13 system, and the ancestral multi-function NFC and infrared sensors are naturally not absent. Redmi said that the K50 esports version is equipped with an infrared Pro, which has increased the power by 2 times and the angle by 60%, which can cover the 100-person ladder classroom.
In addition to mobile phones, Redmi also released a new esports router AX5400, which supports WiFi6 Enhanced Edition, has a rate of 5400 megabytes, is equipped with a Qualcomm processor, 512MB of large memory, and has an e-sports appearance and RBG lighting effects. The router supports all-platform game acceleration, which can realize special acceleration of mobile phone, PC, and console games, and has OFDMA+MU-MIMO, and multiplayer black does not stutter.
Price
Redmi K50 Esports Edition, 8+128GB, 3299 RMB
Redmi K50 esports edition, 8+256GB, 3599 yuan
Redmi K50 Esports Edition, 12+256GB, 3899 RMB
Redmi K50 Champion Edition, 12+256GB, 4199 RMB (limited to 10,000 units)
Redmi AX5400 router, starting at 549 RMB
A new generation of Snapdragon 8 chips, DisplayMate A+ high-quality display, 120W fast charge with large battery, powerful motor and speaker configuration, as the first model in the Redmi K50 universe, the Redmi K50 esports edition is undoubtedly a well-headed Snapdragon 8 mobile phone.
In the Snapdragon 888 era, Qualcomm has said that letting go of power consumption and chasing peak performance performance is to provide greater flexibility for devices with higher thermal envelopes such as gaming phones. Therefore, from the perspective of hardware design, high-performance chips such as Snapdragon 8 are very suitable for use in gaming phones.
Therefore, if you need a high-performance flagship Android gaming phone, the Redmi K50 esports version from 3299 yuan is a choice worth considering, after all, Snapdragon 8 is the strongest chip in Android phone performance at this stage. If the Snapdragon 8 chip is not your dish, or you don't need such a level of gaming performance and configuration, you can continue to wait and see the K50's successor model, or the classic "nail household" K40.
As Lu Weibing said after the press conference: "Qualcomm wants to refuel Ha. ”
So are you reading this article satisfied with the first model of the Redmi K50 universe?
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