Tomorrow March 24 will be the day: Xiaomi’s brand will finally take the wraps off the Redmi K30 Pro, its most affordable flagship with top-tier hardware specifications. But we already know almost everything about the new flagship killer. Thanks to a huge amount of leaks and rumors, almost nothing is still shrouded into the mystery. According to reports, there will be two variants: Redmi K30 Pro and K30 Pro Zoom Edition. Here you can find a rumor roundup with all the info about the new K30 Pro based on the latest leaks, official info unveiled by the Chinese giant, and the most reliable rumors.
Redmi K30 Pro Rumor Roundup
Design
Despite it will be sold at a very competitive price for a flagship, the Redmi K30 Pro is still expected to come with premium materials, including a glass back and an aluminum frame. According to renders, the device will have a notch-less and holeless display thanks to the presence of a motorized pop-up camera. The bezels around the display will be very narrow, while on the rear side there will be a big and circular camera setup (similarly to OnePlus 7T) with a LED flash underneath. K30 Pro will be launched in at least four color options: Moonlight White, Sky Blue, Purple and Space Gray. There will be a notification LED and it will be placed near the pop-up camera. And there will even be a headphone jack, haptic engine, and 4D vibration. Last but not least, the phone will be splash resistant with the IP53 certification.
Display
Official images confirmed that Redmi K30 Pro will have an AMOLED display made by Samsung (E3) with a 5,000,000:1 contrast, a brightness of 800 nits (1,200 nits peak brightness), the support to the HDR10+ standard, and a 180 Hz touch-sampling rate. Unfortunately, K30 Pro will have a standard 60 Hz refresh rate, unlike most of the latest flagships. If you expected smooth animations and more advanced viewing experience during gaming sessions, you will be left disappointed. The display will be protected by Gorilla Glass 5 just like the rear side.
Specs & Software
Redmi K30 Pro will be powered by Snapdragon 865 mobile platform and it will support 5G connectivity thanks to the external 5G modem Snapdragon X55. Alongside the best Qualcomm’s chipset there will be LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 internal storage (with writing speeds up to 750 MB/s) in various configurations, as well as a VC liquid cooling technology. According to rumors, the base variant will provide 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of native storage. But the phone should also hit the Chinese market in other configurations, including one with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage, a 8/256 GB version and even a 12/512 GB configuration.
The phone is said to score a similar result to the higher-end Xiaomi Mi 10 on AnTuTu benchmark. There will be a very big vapor chamber for heat dissipation (3,435 mm²) and the support to Super Bluetooth with a range up to 400m. The range for Bluetooth 5.1 is about 243 meters. Thanks to the 5G MultiLink feature, K30 Pro will be able to connect to three networks at the same time, including a 2.4 GHz WiFi connection, a 5GHz WiFi connection, and a 4G or 5G mobile network. The operating system installed will obviously be Android 10 customized by MIUI 11. On the software side, you will find the Game Turbo 3.0 technology. We will even get a Stacked Motherboard design with 61 components per sq centimeter.
Camera
Redmi K30 Pro will sport a quad rear camera with a 64 MP Sony IMX686 main sensor, 7P lens, and dual-OIS. The phone will support 3x optical zoom and digital zoom up to 30x (the advanced zoom might be only for the Zoom Edition), it will be able to record 8K videos (with a high resolution of 7680 x 4320 pixels) and it will provide a great photo quality even in dark scenes with Super Night Scene 2.0. The feature will unlock super-bright HDR photos at night even in low-light conditions by clicking several photos at different exposures and combining them into a single one with as little noise as possible. There will obviously be an ultrawide lens as well. Thanks to dual OIS, even the telephoto sensor will have OIS to shoot sharp photos even while zooming.
Battery
Rumors suggested that Redmi K30 Pro and K30 Pro Zoom Edition will offer a 4700 mAh battery with the support to 33W fast charging. Unfortunately, the company did not reveal the battery capacity, so we got no official info about it. We expect K30 Pro and K30 Pro Zoom Edition to come with the same battery capacity.
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Redmi K30 Pro – Launch, price and availability
Redmi K30 Pro and K30 Pro Zoom Edition will be unveiled tomorrow March 24 for the Chinese market, but their official prices are still unknown. Xiaomi Product Director Wang Teng Thomas had earlier hinted that the Redmi K30 Pro 5G would be priced between 3,000 Yuan (~$423) and 3,599 Yuan (~$507). The phone was recently spotted on the official Xiaomi store on Suning with a 3,299 Yuan price tag, but it has been taken down. There is still no info about the global launch of the new flagship killers. Its predecessor K20 Pro hitten the global market with a different name: Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro. According to speculations, the K30 Pro might come globally as the Pocophone F2, but for now, it is just a remote hypothesis.
