New POCO phones are coming to India. The brand is now separated from Xiaomi, the parent company. Now, the first POCO phone has surfaced on the database of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Its model number is M1912G7BI. The Redmi K30 4G model that was announced in December has M1912G7BE and M1912G7BC model numbers. It is likely that M1912G7BI will be rebranded as a POCO phone in India. Meanwhile, POCO India has released the first tweet of the year 2020. It indicates that the company will be soon teasing on the arrival of its new smartphone.

Xiaomi Global VP and Managing Director for India, Manu Kumar Jain had recently said that POCO will be very soon launching its first phone of the year. It remains to be seen whether the upcoming POCO phone will be the rumoured POCO F2 Lite or POCO X2 smartphone. It is said that the POCO will launch three smartphones along with some other products in India.

The M1912G7BI smartphone has cropped up on the database of BIS. Based on the model numbers of the Redmi K30’s China variant, it can be said that the M1912G7BI could be its Indian variant. Interestingly, the M1912G7BI model number had appeared first in December on BIS as a Redmi device. However, after the establishment of POCO as a separate brand, the M1912G7BI is now listed as POCO device. Hence, M1912G7BI Redmi K30 will be coming to India as a POCO phone.

POCO M1912G7BI

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It is not clear whether the M1912G7BI Redmi K30 will be debuting as POCO F2 Lite or POCO X2 smartphone in India. The reason behind it is that the Redmi K30 is a Snapdragon 730 powered handset whereas the POCO F2 Lite is said to be equipped with Snapdragon 765 and the processor of the POCO X2 is not known yet. In fact, there are doubts whether the POCO X2 phone really exists since the name has only appeared on Geekbench and it is not too difficult to create a fake listing on the benchmarking platform.

The POCO F2 Lite leak that surfaced yesterday revealed that it has a waterdrop notch screen. The Snapdragon 765 powered phone has 6 GB of RAM, 5,000mAh battery and it is preinstalled with Android 10 OS. The phone could be equipped with a 48-megapixel or higher main camera on its back. The other specs of the phone are currently under the wraps. The POCO X2 Geekbench listing had carried ‘phoenixin’ codename in the motherboard field which suggested that it could be Redmi K30’s rebranded version. The listing further revealed that it has 1.8GHz octa-core processor, 8 GB of RAM and Android 10 OS.

POCO fans will be eagerly waiting for the successor of the POCO F1. Rumors are rife that the POCO F2 could be arriving as the cheapest smartphone featuring the Snapdragon 855 or Snapdragon 855+ chipset.

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