Redmi is reported to launch its first-ever gaming smartphone very soon. This device has been confirmed to feature MediaTek Dimensity 1200 SoC. There’s no much information available about this phone but we expect to learn more about it in the coming days since the brand has started teasing its release.

According to a report by ITHome, Redmi will be holding a launch conference this month (April) in China. This information was revealed by none other than Wang Teng, the Product Director of Redmi while replying to a netizen on Weibo.

Earlier last month, the same executive asked the people interested in gaming smartphones to wait a bit further. Hence, there is a high chance that the upcoming launch event could be for the Redmi gaming smartphone that was officially confirmed way back in January.

As per popular Chinese leakster Digital Chat Station, this unreleased phone is codenamed Ares and will come with model number M2104K10C. The same handset with model number M2104K10I was spotted on the Indian IMEI database yesterday as a POCO smartphone. 

Hence, we can expect this phone to launch with POCO branding in India after its debut in China sometime later this month.

That said, as of now, the newly launched realme GT Neo is the only handset powered by MediaTek Dimensity 1200 SoC. Above all, it is way more affordable than any Qualcomm Snapdragon 870-equipped device. For those unaware, the D1200 chip is equivalent to SD870.

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