Xiaomi had held a soft launch to announce the Redmi 8A smartphone in India. At the end of the online launch of the smartphone, Xiaomi’s Global VP and Managing Director for India, Manu Kumar Jain teased that India will be soon receiving the Redmi 8 smartphone. Probably, the company may announce the Redmi 8 in India in October.
In the snapshot shown below, the red-colored Redmi 8A with single rear camera can be seen in the left hand of Jain. In his right hand is the mysterious Redmi phone with a vertical dual camera setup. It seems to be the upcoming Redmi 8 phone. A leaked poster that had appeared this month had revealed that the Redmi 8 series will go official in China on Oct. 1. Probably, the Redmi 8 series may arrive in India a bit later in the coming month.
The Redmi M1908C3IC that was recently certified by China’s TENAA telecom agency seems to resemble with the dual camera Redmi phone which can be seen with Jain in the above image.
According to TENAA, the Redmi 8 measures 156.3 x 75.4 x 9.4mm and it weighs 190 grams. It has a 6.2-inch display with waterdrop notch that offers 720 x 1520 pixels. It houses a 5,000mAh battery that will probably carry support for fast charging through USB-C.
The handset is powered by 2.0GHz octa-core processor and up to 4 GB of RAM. It has up to 64 GB of native storage. It will come with Android 9 Pie OS preinstalled. The dual camera system of the phone has a 12-megapixel primary lens. It has a frontal shooter of 8-megapixel. For more storage, it has a microSD card slot. A fingerprint scanner is present on the backside of the device. It is also equipped with face unlock.
Reliable tipster Ishan Agarwal had recently revealed that Redmi 8 will be releasing in 3 GB RAM + 32 GB storage and 4 GB RAM + 64 GB storage. Phantom Red, Fairy Green, Carbon Ash and Sapphire Blue are the rumored color options of the smartphone.
Shown above is a leaked image of the Redmi 8 that had surfaced in the previous month. It remains to be seen whether Xiaomi also announces the Redmi 8 Pro alongside the Redmi 8 handset. As of this writing, there is no information on the pricing of the Redmi 8 series.
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