The official name of the upcoming Snapdragon 855-powered Redmi phone is still unknown. It was initially referred to as the Redmi X but the company’s GM Liu Weibing disproved it. While we await the official name to be revealed, more details of the phone have surfaced.
[envira-gallery id=”251470″]Screenshots alleged to be from the device were shared on Twitter today by Sudhanshu Ambhore (@Sudhanshu1414) and they reveal some key details. One of the images reveals the phone’s codename as “Raphael“. This isn’t actually the first time we have heard that codename.
cepheus is the Xiaomi Mi 9, andromeda is the 5G Xiaomi Mi Mix 3, and raphael is another unknown Xiaomi Snapdragon 855 device.
— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) March 21, 2019
Back in March, Mishaal Rahman of XDA-Developers tweeted the codenames of Xiaomi phones powered by the Snapdragon 855. Raphael is one of the devices he mentioned while the other two are the Mi 9 (Cepheus) and Mi MIX 3 5G (Andromeda).
Before we move on to other details of the screenshots, it is important to mention that Mishaal stated back then that Xiaomi was working on a Snapdragon 855 phone with a pop-up selfie camera codenamed “davinci”. He added that of all the Snapdragon 855 devices, only “davinci” is included in the hardware test for the pop-up selfie camera. But current developments point to “raphael” being the one with the pop-up selfie camera.
When I say "only for davinci's front camera" I mean that no other device is included in this hardware test (including no cepheus, andromeda, or raphael, the other 3 Snapdragon 855 Xiaomi devices.) This suggests the hardware is unique to davinci.
— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) March 21, 2019
Back to the screenshot, we also see the phone has 256GB of storage which is double the amount of storage of any Redmi phone. There will surely be other variants too with this being the highest configuration. The phone is also shown to be running a beta version of MIUI 10.
The second screenshot reveals that the Redmi flagship has a GPU overclocking feature. Don’t get too excited as this might be a feature open to beta users and not accessible on the stable version. Nevertheless, it is a feature to be excited about.
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The Redmi flagship is expected to launch this month and will be Xiaomi’s first phone with a pop-up camera. It will also have triple rear cameras and have an audio jack.
Update: Both “Raphael“ and “Davinci” are the two pop-up selfie camera phones powered by the Snapdragon 855 Xiaomi is developing. Both will also most likely be heading to India.
