It is no longer news that the Redmi K20 will be sold in Europe as the Mi 9T. The Redmi K20 Pro is also expected to be sold as the Mi 9T Pro. However, there have been reports both phones will launch as the POCO F2 and POCO F2 Pro in India. New developments show that will not be happening and both phones will keep their original names in Xiaomi’s second largest market.

The MD of Xiaomi India, Manu Kumar Jain, shared photos on Twitter of billboard ads of the Redmi flagship killer erected in some parts of India. The billboards which are erected right next to those of the OnePlus 7 Pro mock the OnePlus flagship with the caption “Starkly Superior to the Latest One”. That’s a good play on words seeing as Robert Downey Jr. who is best known as the actor that plays Tony Stark (Iron Man) is the new brand ambassador for OnePlus.

Apart from the billboards which say the Redmi K20 is coming soon to India. Mr. Kumar Jain revealed in the caption for the tweet that the Redmi K20 and Redmi K20 Pro are coming soon, hence confirming the official names of both phones and disproving the rumor that both phones will launch as the POCO F2 and POCO F2 Pro.

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In a separate tweet today, the company executive revealed in a video that both phones will arrive in 6 weeks, which should be around mid-July. Yeah, there is still a bit of waiting to do. Once again, he also confirmed both phones will arrive as the Redmi K20 and Redmi K20 Pro.

The K20 and K20 Pro are the first phones with pop-up selfie cameras from Xiaomi (Redmi). The K20 is powered by the Snapdragon 730 while the latter is powered by the Snapdragon 855. Both phones have triple rear cameras, in-display fingerprint scanners, and a battery capacity of 4000mAh.

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