Xiaomi-backed Redmi, which seems to be on a launching spree, is now gearing up to launch its next-generation flagship smartphone — Redmi K30 Pro. Amid this, the company has today announced something unexpected.

Redmi has announced that it has now become the exclusive smartphone partner for the upcoming movie “Fast and Furious 9” in China. The collaboration seems to be for the Redmi K30 Pro flagship smartphone launching on 24th March in China.

A day before, the company confirmed that the upcoming flagship smartphone will come with a VC liquid cooled heat sink which will improve performance and enable Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 chipset to run at full capacity.

The smartphone will come equipped with a 3,435 square millimetre of liquid cooled heat sink which is claimed to offer improved thermal performance and allow for greater heat dissipation over traditional cooling methods.

Further, it has also been confirmed that the device will feature new UFS 3.1 storage standard which is the latest and fastest memory chip currently available commercially in the market and will provide read speeds up to 750MB/s.

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The image poster shared by the company to reveal this states that this may be the “strongest performance combination’ in the 5G era.” By comparison, UFS 3.0 only offered read speeds between 400MB/s or 260MB/s.

The Redmi K30 Pro is expected to come with a 6.67-inch Full HD+ display with 120Hz refresh rate and in-display fingerprint scanner. It is also expected to have pop-up front-facing camera setup for taking selfies and video calling and rear quad-camera setup.

As per the leaks, the 5G compatible smartphone will draw power from a 4,700mAh battery that will come with support for 33W fast charging support. The phone is expected to have a starting price of around 3,000 yuan, which is roughly $428.

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