A few days back, Redmi officially announced the release date of the Redmi K50 series. Now, as it turns out, the March 17 event will also see the launch of multiple other products, with company GM Lu Weibing saying that it’s “Redmi’s most important launch of the year.”

According to the GM, the Redmi brand’s entire lineup will undergo a complete refresh this year. Several of these products will see their newer iterations on March 17 alone, but it seems that Redmi will be keeping other major events throughout the year.

A teaser image shared with the announcement shows the silhouette of multiple other products along with the Redmi K50 such as a router, a TV, and a laptop.

Speaking of laptops, the RedmiBook Pro 15 was spotted on Geekbench a couple of days back with the Intel Core i7-12650 processor. The processor has 10 cores, 16 threads, and up to 24MB cache, which have helped it achieve an impressive multi-core score of 11,872. This laptop is expected to launch alongside the Redmi K50 series.

The Redmi K50 series will be the most extensive flagship lineup from Redmi ever and will be powered by processors from both Qualcomm and MediaTek. It comprises the Redmi K50 Pro+ with its Dimensity 9000, the Redmi K50 Gaming with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, the Redmi K50 Pro with the Dimensity 8100, and the Redmi K50 with the Snapdragon 870.

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Xiaomi had just launched the Redmi K50G smartphone in China. It is the company’s latest gaming flagship handset in the market. But during its launch event, the brand also launched another product. It is the new Redmi Router AX5400, which is the company’s first gaming router.

According to official notes, the Chinese smartphone maker launched the Router AX5400 to “provide the best gaming experience, whether PC or mobile gaming.” The new router will offer flagship level 2.5G Ethernet port that can be used specifically for gaming or for external NAS device plug ins. Furthermore, the newly launched router is also capable of adapting to operator’s gigabit fiber speed as well. It is designed with gaming in mind, so it also features an aesthetic fitting of this term.

Looking at the router, it sports RGB lighting that offers 16 million colors along with game acceration plug in support. Furthermore, it is a Wi-Fi 6 enabled router and supports hybrid Mesh network compatible with all of the other Xiaomi Wi-Fi 6 routers. In other words, it supports full coverage for your homes if you’re running multiple routers. Under the hood, the Router AX5400 is powered by a Qualcomm chipset.

This chipset is a dual core 64 bit chipset that has a 1.0GHz CPU alongside an independent 1.0GHz NPU. The router is also equipped with 6 independent high performance FEMs, which are basically signal amplifiers. Interestingly, it can also automatically recognize compatible Xiaomi and Redmi smartphones to enable reduction of delay by up to 20 percent. The Router A5400 will be available in China for 599 Yuan (roughly 95 US Dollars), and will be available for a discounted price of 549 Yuan (roughly 86 US Dollars) during its first launch.

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Redmi has launched a new router in China called ‘Redmi Router AX1800’. Although the product is new in the brand’s home country, it’s not in international markets. That’s because, earlier this year, Xiaomi had already released this router with Mi branding, a Qualcomm chipset, and more RAM in select countries.

The Redmi Router AX1800 is priced at ¥229 ($36) in China. As part of the pre-order offer, the product is currently being offered at ¥209 ($33). 

Talking about features, the new Redmi-branded router offers WiFi 6 connectivity with OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access). It has 4 external 5 dBi high-gain omnidirectional antennas. These antennas support LDPC error correction algorithms to improve anti-interference capabilities and signal coverage for data transmission.

It houses an unnamed dual-core 880Mhz CPU paired with 128MB RAM. For those unaware, the global variant of this product with Mi branding uses a 14nm Qualcomm IPQ6000 chipset consisting of a 1.2GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU and a 1.5GHz single-core NPU coupled with 256MB RAM.

Other features of the router include 1 x WAN port, 3 x LAN ports, beamforming, BSS colouring, WPA3, MU-MIMO, IPv6, dual-band integrated into one, mesh network support, OpenWRT operating system, and Xiaomi Easy Connect app support on both Android as well as iOS.

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Earlier today (19th July 2021), Xiaomi officially launched the reservation page of the Redmi AX3000 Router. The registrations for the product are currently live on Tmall, a Chinese e-retailer with its pre orders going live tomorrow (20th July 2021).

The new product from the Chinese tech giant is its latest WiFi router, which supports the latest WiFi 6 standards as well. Under the hood, the new 3000M router is powered by a new generation of Qualcomm chips, paired with four independent signal amplifiers. It also arrives with 256MB of memory along with 160MHz bandwidth support that is compatible with a number of other Xiaomi and Redmi routers that enables it to carry out hybrid mesh networking.

Looking at the router, it arrives with a minimalistic single color body design with four antennas. The router also supports the Xiaomi Easy Connect system as well and is expected to go live for pre orders tomorrow on Tmall at 10 am in China.

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Lu Weibing, Vice President of Xiaomi Group and General Manager for the Redmi brand has now revealed the way forward for the Redmi company in a new interview. He revealed that Xiaomi had proposed dual-engine strategy of smartphones and AIoT earlier.

He adds that the company has adopted “1+4+X” model where “4” refers to four categories of products — Smart TV, Notebooks, Routers, and Smart Speakers. It seems that “1” refers to the primary category for the company which remains smartphones.

Lu Weibing said that the company has also launched Redmi-branded smart TV and laptops in the market and thus, the products next in line includes routers and smart speakers. It has also been confirmed that the devices will get launched next month.

While details about the upcoming router and smart speaker have not been officially revealed yet, Lu Weibing has confirmed that these products will get launched along with Redmi K30 smartphone next month in China.

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Although we are yet to know about the specs and features of the upcoming smart products from the brand, it’s fair to assume that all the devices from the company will adhere to the company’s aim of offering cost-effective products.

Lei Jun, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group had previously said that he foresees that in the future, all the hosehold products/devices will be interconnected and can be operated through voice commands.

He added that most of the devices will be replaced with smart home products and AIoT platform will be established to make the process easy and reliable for the users. Here, AIoT is being referred to Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things.

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