POCO has announced the launch date of the POCO M6 Pro 5G smartphone in India. It is set to debut in the country on August 5. The brand had teased the upcoming smartphone yesterday. POCO did no launch a pro variant of the M5 and hence the M6 Pro 5G will arrive as the successor to the last year’s M4 Pro 5G. Additionally, ahead of the launch, the device has also been spotted on the Geekbench benchmarking platform. 

POCO M6 Pro 5G launch date revealed, appears on Geekbench

The POCO M6 Pro 5G is set to debut on August 5, Saturday at 12 noon local time. Flipkart has put up a dedicated microsite of the upcoming offering confirming its availability on the E-commerce platform. The brand is teasing the device as the 5G disrupter. 

As per the teaser image, the POCO M6 Pro 5G is seen in a Turquoise color option. It has an elongated Black color camera module housing two sensors and an LED flash on the left side and a POCO branding on the right. This gives the phone a dual-tone look. There is a power and volume rocker button on the right side. The SIM slot is on the left side of the device. Apart from this, the teasers do not reveal additional details of the upcoming smartphone. 

The POCO M6 Pro 5G has been spotted on Geekbench benchmarking platform (via). It is listed with a motherboard codenamed ‘sky’ and it comprises six cores at 1.96GHz and two cores ticking at 2.21GHz. This likely corresponds to the Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 chipset. The listing reveals 6GB RAM onboard and Android 13 OS out of the box. In the single-core and multi-core tests, the smartphone scores 922 and 2,110 points respectively. As per rumors, the POCO M6 Pro 5G is said to be a rebadged version of the Redmi Note 12R in China. 

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