In the first half of the year, the mobile phone market is dominated by volume, and mobile phone manufacturers will launch some cost-effective mobile phones with good configuration and moderate price, and wait until the second half of the year to launch a real high-end flagship. In the first half of the year, Xiaomi only released the Xiaomi Mi 12 and Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro, and the real high-end flagship Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra and the folding screen flagship Xiaomi MIX Fold2 need to wait until the third quarter to be released.
Redmi launched the lower-priced K50 series, the K50 esports edition preemptively appeared, followed by the more anticipated K50 and K50 Pro.
Realme, like Redmi, is an online brand and a real competitor to Redmi, and the Realme GT Neo3 released on March 22 is not weak in all aspects, and the price is lower, which is also worth choosing.
In addition, iQOO also released this flagship iQOO Neo6 on April 13, equipped with Snapdragon 8Gen1 processor, the starting price is only 2799 yuan, is the lowest priced Snapdragon 8 flagship on the market, but also K50 and K50 Pro competitors, so who is more worth buying these phones?
Redmi K50 series has a total of K50 e-sports version, K50 and K50 Pro three mobile phones, in addition, there is a lower price K40S, the starting price is maintained at 1999 yuan, equipped with last year's sub-flagship chip Snapdragon 870, considering that Qualcomm has delegated this SoC to the use of thousand yuan machines, K40S is not worth recommending.
K50 e-sports edition is a rescue work launched under the unsatisfactory sales performance of the Xiaomi 12 series, Lei Jun hopes to use this phone to squeeze the market and leave no opportunity for opponents. Unfortunately, the performance of Snapdragon 8 is too unsatisfactory, and the user's expectations for this chip are not high, and they do not even intend to buy it, but Qualcomm's old rival MediaTek launched the Tianji 9000 and Tianji 8100 perform better. However, manufacturers use mediatek processors less mobile phones, especially in the high-end flagship is very rare, lack of relevant optimization experience, even if MediaTek and manufacturers jointly optimize, in the short term can not compete with Qualcomm.
K50 gaming version uses 6.67-inch 1080P resolution AMOLED flexible direct screen + Corning Gorilla Victus glass, supports 120Hz refresh rate and 480Hz touch sampling rate, equipped with Snapdragon 8 processor, using dual VC liquid cooling system, with 6904 square millimeters of graphene, excellent heat dissipation effect. In terms of gaming, the K50 esports edition offers ultra-wideband X-axis linear motors and magnetically powered pop-up shoulder buttons, as well as JBL symmetrical broadband quad speakers, which are excellent in both game control and sound.
In terms of cameras, the front 20MP Sony IMX596 single camera, the rear 64MP IMX686 main camera + 8MP ultra-wide angle + 2MP macro triple camera combination. Built-in 4700mAh battery, support 120W wired fast charging. The price of the 8+128GB version is 3299 yuan.
Redmi K50 debuted the Tianji 8100 processor, which is also the most fragrant SoC in the first half of this year, the performance exceeds the Snapdragon 870, the multi-core performance is higher than the Snapdragon 8, and the power consumption is lower. The Tianji 8100 is foundry by TSMC, the CPU consists of four 2.8GHz A78s and four 2.0GHz A55s, and the GPU is arm Mali-G610.
The Redmi K50 uses a 1440P resolution E4 Samsung AMOLED center-mounted cut-out screen, which supports 120Hz refresh rate, 1200Nits peak brightness, dc dimming. Unfortunately, in order to avoid conflicts with the Xiaomi Mi 12 series, the Redmi K50 full series does not support optical screen fingerprint recognition, only the side fingerprint.
In terms of configuration, the K50 is equipped with Tianji 8100, using VC liquid cooling heat dissipation, built-in X-axis linear motor and dual stereo speakers, front 20 million pixel single camera, rear 48 million pixel IMX582 + 8 million pixel ultra-wide angle + 2MP macro triple camera combination, built-in 5500mAh battery, support 67W fast charging. The price of the 8+128GB version is 2399 yuan.
This year's mobile phone market downturn, chip prices have risen all the way, mobile phone manufacturers in order to impress users, can only think about the configuration, some places that are not valued to reduce the allocation, the camera shrinkage is particularly serious, the only place worth comforting is the main camera support OIS optical image stabilization, but 2 million pixel macro is purely a number.
Realme GT Neo3 is the mid-range flagship of Realme True Myself, strong performance, cost-effective not to lose Redmi, but in the past two years the mobile phone market has been rolled up, GT series and Redmi's K series the same camera has shrunk, but other aspects are still very strong.
Realme GT Neo3 adopts 6.7-inch 1080P resolution BOE diamond arrangement AMOLED screen, supports 120Hz refresh rate and screen fingerprint recognition, equipped with Tianji 8100 processor + independent display chip, built-in X-axis linear motor, dual speakers, heat dissipation use 3D tempered VC heatsink. In terms of cameras, the front 16MP single camera, the rear 50MP IMX766 + 8MP ultra-wide angle + 2MP macro triple camera, the main camera supports OIS optical image stabilization. Built-in 5000mAh battery, support 80W wired fast charging. Plastic middle frame, glass back shell, thickness of 8.2mm, weight of 188g. The price of the 8+128GB version is 2299 yuan.
Redmi K50 uses a 2K Samsung screen, the screen is better than the Realme GT Neo3, 67W fast charge, the battery is not small, 5500mAh is larger than gt Neo3's 5000mAh, the only weakness is the IMX596 main camera, in order to make up for this deficiency, K50 also has OIS optical image stabilization. However, the price is 100 yuan more expensive than GT Neo3.
iQOO Neo6
iQOO Neo6 is actually a reduced version of iQOO9, equipped with Snapdragon 8 for many reasons, both to enhance competitiveness, to be able to compete with Redmi K50, K50 e-sports version, K50 Pro, there are also iQOO9 sales are less than expected, Snapdragon 8 is too much stock. In addition, the Snapdragon 888 has not been officially delegated to the mid-range, and the iQOO Neo6 cannot use the Snapdragon 870, but can only carry the Snapdragon 8.
iQOO Neo6 adopts 6.62-inch E4 Samsung AMOLED direct screen, supports screen fingerprint recognition and off-screen dual pressure sensitivity, equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen1+ independent display chip Pro, using a cascading rare earth cooling system, built-in dual X-axis linear motor and dual speakers. Front 16MP single camera, rear 64MP Samsung GW1P main camera + 12MP ultra-wide angle + 2MP black and white lens triple camera, the main camera also has OIS optical image stabilization. Built-in 4700mAh battery, support 80W fast charging. Plastic frame, glass back shell. The price of the 8+128GB version is 2799 yuan.
Among the above 4 mobile phones, Redmi K50 e-sports version and iQOO Neo6 are equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen1, Redmi K50 and Realme GT Neo3 equipped with Tianji 8100, which one will you choose?