Xiaomi officially announced the Redmi K50 Gaming Edition: alongside the Red Magic 7 and the Red Magic 7 Pro by Nubia, it is the first gaming phone of 2022. The new handset contains important upgrades if compared to its predecessor Redmi K40 Gaming Edition, but it is also true that you can find the latter at more affordable prices. Further, the K40 still offers its advantages in 2022. Is it worth choosing the older model thanks to a higher value for money or the most recent one is the best option? You will find the answer to this question in this comparison between their specifications.

Xiaomi Redmi K40 Gaming Edition vs  Xiaomi Redmi K50 Gaming Edition

Design

Both Redmi K50 Gaming Edition and its predecessor come with a gaming-centric design, with aggressive lines and catchy color options. And both the phones feature physical pop-up gaming triggers to enhance the skills while playing games like it happens when using controllers. The new model comes with better materials: it is built with a glass back, a front glass protected by Gorilla Glass Victus, and an aluminum frame. The older one is equipped with the Gorilla Glass 5 protection for the glasses and it has the IP53 certification thanks to which it is dust resistant and splash resistant.

Display

The Redmi K40 Gaming Edition and the Redmi K50 Gaming Edition feature exactly the same display, nothing changed between the two generations. It is a 6.67-inch panel with a Full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2400 pixels, one billion colors, a 120 Hz refresh rate, and the HDR10+ certification. It is a great panel for both image quality and gaming: not the best one, but a very good display. Both the phones feature stereo speakers for an immersive audio experience, but the Redmi K50 Gaming Edition comes with four speakers instead of just two. Despite having AMOLED displays, these handsets come with side-mounted fingerprint scanners.

Specs & Software

The hardware department is the most important upgrade of the Redmi K50 Gaming Edition over its predecessor. This device is powered by the best Qualcomm chipset released until now: the octa-core Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 running at a max frequency of 3 GHz. It is definitely the best SoC in the Android world alongside the Dimensity 9000 by MediaTek, and it is paired with up to 12 GB of RAM and up to 256 GB of UFS 3.1 internal storage. The Redmi K40 Gaming Edition is fueled by the weaker MediaTek Dimensity 1200 mobile platform: it is inferior to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 but still provides amazing CPU and GPU performance, so it remains perfect for gaming. The Redmi K40 Gaming Edition runs Android 11 out of the box, while the Redmi K50 Gaming Edition ships with Android 12 and MIUI 13.

Camera

The rear cameras did not change just like the displays. Redmi K40 Gaming Edition and Redmi K50 Gaming Edition are midrange camera phones including a 64 MP main camera with an f/1.7 focal aperture, an 8 MP ultrawide sensor, and a 2 MP macro camera. The selfie camera is changed: the new model features a better 20 MP front camera instead of a 16 MP one.

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Battery

The most important advantage of the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition is the battery life: despite being older, it packs a bigger 5065 mAh battery and it provides a longer battery life in several scenarios. On the other hand, the Redmi K50 Gaming Edition features faster charging with a power of 120W.

Price

The starting listing price of the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition is €280/$317, while you need at least €460/$520 to get the Redmi K50 Gaming Edition in China. The K50 wins the comparison thanks to a better chipset, faster charging, better front camera, but the K40 offers a higher value for money (as well as a bigger battery). With the current street prices of its predecessor, the K50 is still too expensive for the average gamer.

Xiaomi Redmi K40 Gaming Edition vs Xiaomi Redmi K50 Gaming Edition: PRO and CONS

Xiaomi Redmi K40 Gaming Edition

PRO

• IP53 certification
• Bigger battery
• More affordable

CONS

• Inferior hardware

Xiaomi Redmi K50 Gaming Edition

PRO

• Better processor
• Faster charging
• Better materials
• Four speakers
• Better front camera

CONS

• Smaller battery

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Today, we have something special for you guys.

We have brought in five gaming phones for the ultimate GAMING COMPARISON — the ROG Phone 5, the Legion 2 Pro, the Redmagic 6, the Blackshark 4 and the Redmi K40 gaming edition. All of them were released in the first half of 2021. And we believe these five candidates cover all the possible price segments for a capable gaming phone in the market.

Gaming Phone with the Best Design

When we evaluate the design of gaming phones, the judging criteria is often very different from a regular phone. It’s not necessary for these gaming models to be light and thin, since higher priority is given to longer battery life, more effective thermal design, and better hardware enabling creative gaming features.

All these five models weigh over 200g. The Redmi K40 Gaming is the closest to a regular phone with the best weight control.

But among these five gaming models, no doubt the heaviest one, the Legion 2 Pro has the most distinguished design. The Legion phone uses a three-part design with an aluminum frame and a glass back. Inside the model, its motherboard with the chipset is placed at the middle to avoid heating on both sides of the holding area, where it features dual 2525mAh batteries. And it’s the only model among the five to feature 2 built-in cooling fans.

Another model that comes with a cooling fan is the RedMagic 6. Apart from this, we couldn’t find any design distinguishing it as a gaming phone. So it’s similar to the Blackshark 4 and the Redmi K40 Gaming edition. These three models look like a regular smartphone. Another model that uses an internal three-part design is the ROG Phone 5, which also has a centrally placed chipset and batteries on the two sides. In addition to this, there are more similarities between the ROG Phone and the Legion Phone. For example, they both feature a big RGB-light logo on the back, but the big eye of the ROG phone no doubt is more breathtaking for a gamer. Additionally, they both have two USB-C ports, which is really convenient for charging and playing games without affecting your grip.

The Legion Phone is the only model that aggressively puts its front and rear cameras at a strange location. The centrally-placed rear camera module looks really strange. Actually, it doesn’t look good at all, while the pop-up front camera is a much smarter design to be positioned on the side-frame. It achieved a perfect angle when we were playing games horizontally. What’s more, for those mobile gamers who also do live-streaming, no doubt it’s the best option to solve all streaming issues with just one phone. But some users may consider it a bit too flashy. Indeed, it does look a bit weird, so the other four probably look better as a smartphone.

But note that although the Legion phone’s selfie camera didn’t occupy any area of the front, its edge width wasn’t narrow at all. On the contrary, the Blackshark 4 and the Redmi model featuring a hole-punched front camera have relatively narrower edges.

So to conclude, for the appearance perspective, we’d like to give both the Legion model and the ROG model a 4.5 out of 5, mainly because they are not perfect. And we’ll give 4 points to the Redmagic 6, and 3.5 to both the Redmi model and the Blackshark 4.

ROG 5 vs Legion 2 Pro vs Blackshark 4 vs Redmi K40 Gaming vs Redmagic 6: Display

The Legion phone, ROG phone and the Blackshark 4 feature an E-sports-level display with 144Hz refresh rate, while the Redmi K40 gaming comes with only a 120Hz display.

Although the RedMagic 6 comes with the highest refresh rate of 165Hz, the difference with the other four models is really hard to perceive with your naked eye. But speaking of their display quality, we have to say that the Redmi model is a bit disappointing because we found that its edges look a bit reddish. And turns out there are other units that have the same issue.

Speaking of colors, only the Legion 2 Pro applies a lower color temperature, which makes the screen look relatively yellowish. And no matter the color mode, there’s no option for users to adjust the color temperature. While on the other 4 models, there’s no such issue.

All these 5 models claim their panels support HDR content, and especially the ROG Phone, the Legion model and the Blackshark 4 claim they can breach the 1000-nit barrier upwards to fit the HDR standard. But in our test, only the Blackshark 4 and the ROG phone could actually reach around 800nits of peak brightness at APL-100 and over 1000 nits at APL1, while the Legion model failed to deliver on its promise and only got a close result to the Redmi K40 Gaming edition. But when we used them for HDR1000 content playback, the Blackshark 4 turned out to be the best one to activate the highest brightness.

And all of these five models support DC dimming, which is an option that we are sure PWM-sensitive gamers would appreciate. However, only the Redmi K40 Gaming edition and the ROG phone require the refresh-rate limit of 60Hz to activate DC dimming.

Also, except for the ROG Phone, the other four models claim that they feature super high touch sampling at over 300Hz. But actually, the ROG Phone isn’t far behind in terms of touch and slide latency. The ROG phone still has the best performance of touch and slide latency because all the other models only feature a maximum touch sampling rate at 300Hz on paper but the ROG model triumphs over them in real life. Take the Blackshark 4 as an example. When we activated its higher sampling at 720Hz, although we could see more sampling points, its latency strangely increased than the other models. And even on the Redmi model, you can see frequent breaks occurring under the simulated sampling.

So for display rating, we’d like to give the ROG model 5 points out of 5, 4.5 for the Blackshark 4, 4 for the Redmagic 6, and 3.5 for both the Redmi model and the Legion Phone.

ROG 5 vs Legion 2 Pro vs Blackshark 4 vs Redmi K40 Gaming vs Redmagic 6: Best Gaming Operation

In 2021, how do you define a gaming smartphone? By the presence of gaming buttons. In fact, if you look at it, if not for the gaming buttons, the Redmi K40 Gaming edition would be just another good-performing mid-range model. But it does have my favorite pop-up physical shoulder triggers just like the Blackshark 4.

However, the Blackshark 4’s triggers offer better tactile, clicky feedback with a bit more comfortable key travel as well. In addition, the Blackshark 4 supports double mapping positions of a push and lift actions separately, while each trigger of the Redmi model only has one pressing mode for single-position mapping. If you want to set up combos of buttons on the Redmi K40 Gaming, it’s only available as a virtual button on the screen.

As for the Redmagic 6, in addition to the mapping modes we mentioned, each touch shoulder button supports either triggering dual positions or trigging a macro-operation.

For the ROG phone, the operation can be much more complicated as each button can be separated into two buttons and support slide actions. Users not only can slide to trigger buttons but also can use them to simulate horizontal or vertical slide actions, which really requires a lot of practice. But most gamers wouldn’t even try these unusual options while gaming.

If you are still not satisfied with the shoulder buttons, well, don’t worry about it. ROG further adds two more physical triggers on their official cooling accessory, the latest Aero Active cooler. So literally with the cooling fan, it supports gaming operation with up to 6 off-screen buttons.

Well for the Legion 2 Pro, the situation is crazier. This monster phone just supports 2 press-sensing areas and 6 built-in extra-buttons for gaming operation, including 4 separated shoulder buttons and two slide buttons on the back. However, it’s not easy for gamers to have a comfortable grip while using all the buttons. And it’s really easy to register mistouches with these buttons, or sometimes you may even be confused by the less sensitive slide buttons at the back. So it’s hard to say whether this over implementation of buttons is a successful solution on a mobile product. But if you only activate the basic 2 shoulder buttons, the whole gaming operation would be much more delightful as they have fast response. And the grip feeling is the best among the five models due to the thoughtful position for placing your little fingers.

To conclude, in the gaming operation department, our rating could be somewhat subjective since operation experience varies from person to person. Anyway, we’ll give 5 out of 5 points to the Blackshark 4, 4.5 to the RedMagic 6, 4 to the ROG phone and the Legion phone, and 3.5 to the Redmi K40 Gaming edition.

ROG 5 vs Legion 2 Pro vs Blackshark 4 vs Redmi K40 Gaming vs Redmagic 6: Best Gaming Software

All these gaming models have their own software for gameplay. Except for the Redmi model, gamers are able to access higher chipset performance and most game-related shortcuts with their dedicated game assistant. It seems that Redmi didn’t really prepare well when it comes to the in-game software for their first gaming phone. So the built-in Game Turbo looks pretty simple with just several shortcuts. There’s no option for performance adjustment, neither projection options. But gamers can still directly project the game or the phone screen to a TV or a PC through Miracast on all these five models.

Well, the best model for projection is the Redmagic 6. Compared to others, projection on the Redmagic 6 has better compatibility with higher image quality. For example, you can choose wired projection through a direct connection with a monitor or USB connection with the Redmagic Studio on a PC.

Another model that supports high-refresh-rate projection is the Legion 2 Pro, it supports wired projection at 1080P and up to 120Hz.

Furthermore, you can also turn the Redmagic 6 into a virtual gamepad during Projection.

For more details, you can just check the table here. But please note that the Redmi K40 Gaming edition didn’t really optimize its projection capacity. Over game-related software, it really is no different from a regular phone.

So in this department, we’d like to give 1 point to the Redmi model, 3 points to the Blackshark 4, 4 points to the ROG phone and the Legion Phone respectively, and 5 points to the RedMagic 6.

ROG 5 vs Legion 2 Pro vs Blackshark 4 vs Redmi K40 Gaming vs Redmagic 6: Best Performance

The performance comparison probably is the most boring part of this comparison, since we already knew that the Snapdragon 888 chipset was gonna win the race. Anyway, let’s take a look at their benchmark performances. Unsurprisingly the three models running the 888 chipset dominate the race and didn’t really show significant gaps, but here we still want to remind you that this can be partially attributed to the excellent thermal design of these three gaming phones. About their specific thermal performance, we will show you more details later. The Blackshark 4 and the Redmi model is at another level, and the Blackshark 4 seems to have slightly better performance than the Redmi K40 Gaming edition.

In our actual gaming test, from the framerate results, we cannot exactly pinpoint which model powered by the 888 chipset won the competition. They all achieved almost the best frame rate results in the three games. In PUBG mobile, the best result were achieved by the Legion phone, while in Nimian legends and Genshin Impact, the Redmagic 6 won. If I have to pick up the model that has the most stable performance, we will give the title to the Redmagic 6. However, the biggest surprise is the Blackshark 4 powered by the 870 chipset, which didn’t lag much behind, while in the last place, unsurprisingly, was the Redmi K40 Gaming edition. However, what really disappointed us was the Redmi model’s performance in Genshin Impact. It’s ridiculous for a gaming phone to lock the framerate to 50fps in a popular game, and even throttle down at 45fps. But in our early review video of the Redmi K40 gaming model, you could find that the phone at that time didn’t lock the framerate in its early software version. But now considering its high power consumption and thermal issue, Redmi eventually used a more conservative CPU strategy in the latest update.

So for this round, we will give 5 points to the three 888 models, 4 points to the blackshark 4, and a 2 to the Redmi K40 Gaming.

Gaming Smartphones of 2021: Best Thermal Design

In Genshin Impact, it’s unsurprising that the Redmi K40 Gaming with locking framerate achieved the best results in heating control and power consumption. And the Blackshark 4 results are slightly better than the other three models. Although the three 888 models applied excellent thermal designs to maintain high performance output, the heating issue still existed. Well thanks to the three-part internal design, actually the ROG Phone and the Legion phone didn’t feel so hot when we were holding it during gameplay.

However, unlike the ROG Phone and the Legion phone, the Redmagic 6 didn’t guarantee a comfortable holding experience while applying an aggressive CPU strategy. In the last few minutes, it was too hot to hold the phone firmly.

So when it comes to thermal design and holding experience, we’d like to give 5 points to the Legion Phone, 4 to the ROG Phone, 3 points to the Blackshark 4 and the Redmi model respectively, and the last place, 2 points to the Redmagic 6.

Gaming Smartphones of 2021: Best Battery Life & Charging

As for their charging and battery performance, we don’t want to waste your time, so just check the table and the charts below.

Now we are close to the final conclusion. Before showing our conclusion, we want to invite you guys to leave your thoughts down below and tell us which one is the best gaming phone in 2021 according to you.

Okay, no further talk – let’s get to the final conclusion!

Best Gaming Phones Battery Comparison 2021: Who’s the Winner?

The title of best 2021 gaming phone still goes to a phone with a traditional strategy, the ROG Phone 5! Actually the phone didn’t dominate every part of this comparison. However, it’s hard to deny that it’s the most stable gaming phone in 2021. Although the Legion 2 Pro is getting close to the first place, we still got a strange feeling about the phone. Because the Legion phone is so special it may not please every gamer. To be honest, the Redmagic 6, somehow is my favorite gaming phone mainly for its powerful projection capacity.

However, the Blackshark 4 was a real surprise. It’s one of the cheapest gaming phones that you can buy among the ones we compared today. But as a gaming device, its performance lags behind others. And sorry to tell you guys that the most disappointing model was the Redmi K40 Gaming edition. We were really looking forward to the first Redmi gaming model and hoped it could bring new energy to the gaming market, but it turns out, the phone has an obvious gap with the other four models.

Anyway, that’s it for today! We hope this best gaming phone 2021 comparison helped you to identify which is the ideal model for you.

Since you’ve read till the very end, here’s a teaser for you — Our Best Camera Flagships of 2021 video and article will soon be up, so stay tuned for that. The results from our camera tests turned out to be very interesting!

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Several reports have claimed that POCO’s next smartphone for India will be called the POCO F3 GT. Today, POCO India released the first teaser of the smartphone to confirm its moniker. The teaser revealed that the POCO F3 GT will be powered by the Dimensity 1200 chipset.

"Locked & loaded, finger on the trigger" The next F is closer than you thought.

Good things come to those who wait, best things to those who never give up! pic.twitter.com/Pu7G6VZgFR

— POCO India – Register for Vaccine (@IndiaPOCO) May 28, 2021

The teaser ends by saying that the note ‘Q3 coming soon.” This indicates that the POCO F3 GT may break cover in July. It appears that the smartphone could be a rebranded version of the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition, which was announced in China last month.

The Redmi K40 Gaming Edition is the first gaming-centric smartphone from Redmi. It comes with RGB lighting around the rear cameras, and it has mechanical pop-up gaming shoulder buttons. There is a possibility that the POCO F3 GT may include the same specs as K40 Gaming, but it may flaunt a different design.

POCO F3 GT specifications (Rumoured)

The POCO F3 GT may come with a 6.67-inch OLED panel that offers a Full HD+ resolution, a 20:9 aspect ratio, and a 120Hz refresh rate. The Dimensity 1200 chipset may power the smartphone with up to 12 GB of LPDDR4x RAM and 256 GB of UFS 3.1 storage. It will come preinstalled with MIUI 12.5 based Android 11 OS.

The F-series phone may feature a front camera of 16-megapixel and its rear camera system may house a 64-megapixel main camera, an 8-megapixel ultrawide lens, and a 2-megapixel macro camera. It may house a 5,065mAh battery that supports 67W fast charging. The device may feature a side-facing fingerprint scanner, but it may house a 3.5mm audio jack.

POCO India Country Director Anuj Sharma revealed to India Today that the phone could be priced around 350 euros to 400 euros. Hence, there is a possibility that the phone may cost between Rs 25,000 and Rs 30,000 in India.

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Two months after the launch of the Redmi K40, the K40 series has a new member — the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition. This is Redmi’s first gaming smartphone, and it’s also the cheapest entry in the gaming phone market. Instead of starting a new product line for this phone, Redmi has put it in the K40 series.

While the K40 Gaming Edition seems perfect, there is one aspect where buyers need to pay extra attention. Read this review till the end to know the points that you should keep in mind. 

REDMI K40 Gaming Edition Review: Design

Redmi emphasizes that this K40 Gaming Edition focuses on solving the three major pain points of gaming phones: thick, heavy, and flashy. If you just look at the official data – The phone is 8.3mm thick and weighs 205g, So this phone is not really thin and lightweight as compared to regular smartphones. But when you compare it with other gaming phones, it is indeed lighter and thinner.

This time, the frame is made of metal and the back panel is made of glass, so it’s not using plastic to reduce weight, and the quality is better than K40 and realme GT Neo. The back looks less flashy than other gaming phones, the camera module is still placed in the upper left corner. The lens protrudes very little, and the design of the pattern is still very restrained. The main gaming design elements are around the lens, the words FREEZING, SPEEDIEST are on both sides of the lens, and there are two RGB lights around it. If there are unread notifications, or if the phone is charging or if you are playing a game, these lights will flash. But these lights while gaming may not be always bright. 

The lightning flash and the new speaker cutout are very gaming centric. The top and bottom frame are straight and with the pop-up trigger on both sides, it really feels like you are playing on a handheld gaming console. In addition, the new antenna design and the third microphone added to the side all confirm its identity as a gaming phone. There is NFC and IR blaster, but the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack is not very “Gaming-focused”.

REDMI K40 Gaming Edition Review: Display

The K40 Gaming Edition uses a 120Hz FHD+ flexible OLED straight screen. Because of our sub-par display experience with the Mi 11 Lite 5G, first, let’s take a look at the screen pixel arrangement. This time the screen supplier is from a Chinese company and uses diamond-like pixels.

The screen’s fineness is not much different from Samsung’s AMOLED. It supports HDR10+, and the protective glass is Corning Gorilla 5th generation glass. Also because the flexible screen uses the COP packaging process, the width of the lower bezel is made very narrow, and the plastic protection layer is also made very small and looks more beautiful than other non-gaming phones.

But also because of the non-Samsung flexible screen, the camera cut out at the front is a little larger than the K40. The peak brightness is lower than the K40 as well. Although the screen performance is not very good in terms of hardware, the narrow bezel still gives a good impression.

REDMI K40 Gaming Edition Review: Performance & Gaming

The K40 Gaming Edition is the second phone to use the MediaTek Dimensity 1200, which was also used in the realme GT Neo.

Let’s compare the Benchmark results: On Antutu, the phone scores 686604, in 3DMark 4147, in GFX Bench OpenGL 1741, and in Manhattan 3.1 it scores 4136.

Since it’s a Gaming Edition, the gaming experience is the main focus. For a good gaming experience, the K40 Gaming Edition uses a new type of thermal material that can control the antenna heating up without blocking the signal transmission and reception. It is also equipped with the same type of pop-up trigger as the Black Shark 4. The trigger pops up when you toggle the switch on. 

The sound and feel of the switch can be really addictive. Because it is a physical trigger, it feels more comfortable than other triggers that are pressed through vibration feedback, the feedback is more direct while the latency is lower. However, the current system version does not allow the trigger to be customized for shortcuts. So right now the trigger can only be turned on to start the <Game space>. When you play PUBG, like realme GT Neo, it does not support the HDR Graphics Extreme frame rate option, but with Smooth Graphics you can turn on 90fps frame rate. K40 Gaming Edition can run at a near full frame rate in this setting. The same light load game COD mobile is also available in full frame.
This time Redmi and miHoYo have worked together to optimize Genshin Impact. But the actual results don’t look very different from the realme GT Neo. The average is 50.99 fps. The phone has slightly less lag than the realme GT Neo, but there is still a performance gap with the K40.

Redmi does not have a frame rate limit for Brightridge, averaging at 41.56 fps. Although it is able to play smoothly, the temperature breaks 50 degrees Celsius at the front and 49 degrees Celsius at the back. And because it is a metal frame, it will feel much hotter than a phone with a plastic frame, so the gaming experience is not very good.

REDMI K40 Gaming Edition Review: Camera

There’s a 64MP primary camera. Although the parameters are very similar, it’s not the same CMOS sensor as the main camera of the K40. There is an 8MP sensor for the ultra-wide lens and a 2MP macro lens instead of a telephoto macro.

Although it is usually said that the photo quality of the game phone is not good, the K40 Gaming Edition uses optical glass in the phone lens for the first time. This means it features a  “1 glass + 5 plastic” lens set. It can improve the quality of the picture. But the actual effect seems less obvious.

Main Camera

The colors in the main camera are vibrant and brighter. The white balance is also much closer to what the eye sees than the K40. The dynamic range is also higher, and the daytime performance is excellent. At night when there are more lights, the auto mode performs basically the same as during the day. However, lens flare issue is more serious, occupying a very large part of the picture. And the lens flare effect wherein you’ll see a small circle inside a large one in the samples could be caused by the glass piece in the lens set.

The performance of the night mode is not so good, and the dynamic range and exposure have been reduced as well. But if you feel the images are a bit dark, or if you want to improve the photo’s exposure and dynamic range, you will have to decide whether to use the night mode according to the situation.

Ultra-Wide Camera

As for the Ultra-wide camera during daytime, unlike the K40 which had a greenish tint in its wide angle samples, the gaming edition’s ultra-wide shooter is much more normal. But the automatic HDR activation probability is low, so you often need to manually enable HDR. The control of highlights at night is very poor, often overexposed at the lights, but it returns to normal after turning on the night mode. The other parts are the same as the main camera.

Macro Lens

The macro lens is just an ordinary macro lens, so don’t expect much from it.

The video performance is impressive, and the stabilization on this phone is very good compared to the last Dimensity 1200 phone. The main camera supports 4K 30 fps with very high usability. The ultra-wide-angle supports up to 1080P 30 fps, which should be no problem for extended shooting time.

REDMI K40 Gaming Edition Review: Battery Life & Performance

This time the box design is mecha style, and it contains the charger and charging cable. The charger and charging cable are now yellow and black instead of the usual white. And it’s a little smaller than the Mi 11 Ultra‘s charger.

The charging cable also uses the L-shaped charging head for the first time, making it more convenient for users to charge while playing games. The 67w charger is the same power as the Mi 11 Ultra, but the charging speed is slower than the Mi 11 Ultra, taking 43 minutes to fully charge. But given that in the first 15 minutes the phone charges to 51%, the charging speed is still almost as fast. Although the body is only 8.3mm thick, it still packs a 5065mAh battery.

Half-hour Tiktok consumed 4%, another half-hour 1080P video consumed 5%. A gaming session of PUBG drained 9%, half-hour of Genshin Impact drained 20%, and Brightridge for 20 minutes drained 13%. Such an excellent level of battery life can be credited to its large battery.

REDMI K40 Gaming Edition Review: Issues & Verdict

Redmi CEO Mr. Lu said this in an interview after the K40 Gaming Edition launch: “The gaming phone industry has entered a dead-end cycle, the product has deviated from user needs, and now all we have to do is return to user needs”. 

The low-profile design allows most people to also accept the use of gaming phones as their daily driver, and then as more phones are sold, the selling price of the phone can be pulled further down, forming a virtuous circle. The K40 Gaming Edition is different from traditional gaming phones in the sense that it doesn’t have six or eight triggers, nor does it have the Snapdragon 888, but what it has is a cheaper price, more restrained appearance, and better-feeling physical triggers have made it possible for the K40 Gaming Edition to offer a good gaming experience without the traditional gaming phone features. 

It should have sold well internationally too, but it was prevented from doing so for one reason – it can’t install GMS, which means it doesn’t support all Google-related apps, so users who don’t live in China must be aware of this problem. I hope Xiaomi will update the system to support GMS or launch a global version of K40 Gaming Edition. 

We are eager to hear your thoughts about this. Feel free to share it with us in the comments section below. I’m Kieran from Gizmochina, and we’ll see you next time.

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Redmi’s General Manager Lu Weibing has provided his perspective on the lack of acceptance of gaming smartphones, stressing that the company is well-primed to engender greater popularity of gaming smartphones in the market. Weibing’s statement comes in the wake of the unveiling of the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition in China.

The Redmi K40 Game Enhanced Edition is Xiaomi’s first gaming smartphone outside of the BlackShark brand. The company expects it to catch the appeal of its customers due to its impressive gaming features and affordability. Liu Weibing disclosed that Redmi decided to enter the gaming smartphone market due to the lack of popularity of gaming smartphones.

Redmi’s gaming phone is the most affordable model around as gaming phones are mostly expensive. Weibing attributed the premium pricing to the higher cost of production of premium gaming smartphones.  Getting an appropriate processor, decent screen, memory, and other aspects in the production and marketing spectrum combine to make the cost of the phones to be generally exorbitant.

The K40 Game Enhanced version sells for around 2000 yuan (~$310), making it by far the cheapest gaming smartphone among the popular brands by a mile. The phone was sold out within a minute during its first sale today in China. It is expected that the acceptance given the K40 Gaming edition in China would be replicated in other countries where a rollout of the model or its variants will take place in the coming weeks. There are speculations that it will launch as POCO F3 GT in India.

The Redmi K40 features an impressive overall form factor and has a relatively lower weight than its competitors like the ASUS ROG Phone 5 and the Nubia Red Magic 5. It is, therefore, lighter and thinner than its present competitors and is a fair reflection of the research and innovative effort put in by Xiaomi in the design and production of the gadget. The company is targeting sales of up to 1.7 million units of the K40 Gaming Enhanced Edition in China alone and the early results indicate that the outlook remains bright for the model.

The Redmi General Manager also noted that the popularization of gaming smartphones could be a difficult task, but the company is ready to plunge into the task because of the opportunities it sees, going forward.

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The Redmi K40 Gaming Edition was announced as the company’s first-ever gaming-focused smartphone on Monday. As promised, its first sale was carried out today in China at 10 AM (local time). Few minutes after making it available for sale, the company took to Weibo to reveal that it sold over 100,000 units of the smartphone in a minute.

MyDrivers reported that the special Bruce Lee edition of the Redmi K40 Gaming phone was also on sale today. The device comes in a distinctive yellow color scheme and it offers users 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of built-in storage. Priced at 2,799 Yuan (~$339), it comes in a different package, including some special accessories.

The Redmi K40 Gaming Edition is priced at 1,999 Yuan (~$309) for the 6 GB RAM + 128 GB storage edition, and it costs 2,199 Yuan (~$340) for the 8 GB RAM + 128 GB storage version. The 8 GB RAM + 128 GB storage and 12 GB RAM + 256 GB storage variants carry the same pricing of 2,399 Yuan (~$371). Its top model with 12 GB RAM + 256 GB storage costs 2,699 Yuan (~$417).

Redmi K40 Gaming Edition specifications

The Redmi K40 Gaming Edition features a 6.67-inch AMOLED screen that offers a Full HD+ resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate, and a touch sampling rate of 480Hz. It is backed by a 5,065mAh battery that supports 67W charging. It is fueled by the Dimensity 1200 chipset.

The other features that are available on the device include LPDDR4x RAM, UFS 3.1 storage, JBL powered dual speakers, a massive VC liquid cooling system, an X-linear motor for in-game vibrations, and mechanical gaming shoulder buttons.

Rumors are rife that the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition will be rebranded as the POCO F3 GT in India.

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Redmi is launching the Redmi K40 Game Enhanced Edition in China on April 27. With just 5 days left to launch, the company has been teasing a lot of gaming-focused features on the device. Today, it has revealed its colors, display design while demonstrating the shoulder keys in a video.

Redmi has posted a video on Weibo that demonstrates how the shoulder key buttons work on the Redmi K40 Game version. The video shows that on moving the slider, the mechanical shoulder keys pop up. The slider also has a red color inside when it is open to indicate that the shoulder key is open.

The company says that the keys give a clicky and good feeling and it will make you want to use them repeatedly. Speaking of which, Redmi says that the shoulder keys are durable and work well for more than 1.5 million times.

The shoulder key is said to be mechanically driven and the sound of the button strokes is said to be similar to a mechanical keyboard.

Anyway, in the video, as you can see, the device is shown in three colors- White, Silver, and Grey. We have already seen the Grey one in the official poster before. The Silver and White ones also have the stripes on the side like the Grey model.

We also see the triple-cameras and the layout is a bit different from the other Xiaomi devices let alone the others in the Redmi K40 series. Reports say that the primary sensor would be a 64-megapixel primary Sony IMX686 camera. The LED flash appears in a unique lightning shape as well.

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Also, the display upfront is said to be a centered punch-hole display just like the Redmi K40 standard model. Speaking of the display, it will probably be a 6.67-inch AMOLED Full HD+ screen with a resolution of 2400 x 1080 pixels with a 120Hz or 144Hz refresh rate and 300Hz touch sampling rate.

Under the hood, the Redmi K40 Game Enhanced edition will feature Dimensity 1200 chipset. A suspected Standard version has appeared on Master Lu with Dimensity 1100 but we will have to wait and see if there’s such a variant.

Other expected specs include 8GB of RAM, 256GB storage, and an FHD+ display, TUV Rheinland’s High-Game performance certification for 5G connectivity, and run  MIUI 12.5 based on Android 11 out of the box.

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