Xiaomi had just launched its flagship Mi 10 series a few weeks prior. The smartphone arrived with top notch specs and features, including the new LPDDR5 memory. Recently, this has been the staple in recent premium smartphone releases. And now, a poll from a Redmi senior official reveals that the newer memory generation might be a popular choice for the company’s upcoming flagship, Redmi K30 Pro.

Lu Weibing, General Manager of Redmi, had previously conducted a poll online on the Chinese microblogging website, Weibo. In the poll, the senior executive asked Weibo users to choose between the 12GB of LPDR4X RAM or 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM for the same price. The same price is important considering the memory offering is more generous in the last generation in comparison to the newer one.

So is 8GB of LPDDR5 really better than 12GB of LPDDR4X RAM? Well, the answer requires a bit of explanation. While the higher memory offering is great positive and may have uses in certain scenarios and future proof one’s smartphone, the newer generations arrive with improvements to overall performance and efficiency.

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The LPDDR5 memory has a transmission rate of 6.4Gbps, which is almost twice as fast as LPDDR4 and more than 20% faster than LPDDR4X. In terms of power efficiency, the newer generation consumer lesser power whilst offering faster performance. So, the performance value the new generation provides is a more viable option instead of just raw memory size.

In the poll, a majority of the users chose the LPDDR5 RAM, considering it is also one of the latest trends on premium flagships. In the poll, nearly 75% of the votes were for the 8GB of LPPRD5 RAM in comparison to just 25% for the 12GB of LPDDR4X memory. 61,000 votes on the former and 20,000 votes on the latter to be precise. So, the Redmi K30 Pro is likely to feature the LPDDR5 memory.

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Seems it’s a season of opinion polls for Chinese innovative tech company Xiaomi. In addition to the on-going poll as regards the Mi logo which was absent on the front screen of the Mi 5S and 5S Plus, Xiaomi is sampling opinions about its fans’ take on the 4-inch Xiaomi phone which leaked some time back.

In case you forgot, a 4-inch Xiaomi phone thought to be a smaller version of the Mi 5S made an appearance on Weibo a few weeks back, before the launch of the Mi 5S. No tangible details were leaked alongside the render of the device except that the phone will feature NFC and will support Xiaomi Mi Pay, which was announced about a month back. Now Xiaomi’s spokesman has taken to his official Weibo account to find out from fans what they think about a 4-inch Xiaomi phone. No doubt the company is thinking about the idea of a 4-incher under its kitty but they have tied the fact whether the phone gets out to the outcome of the polls, according to the statement by the spokesman. Already the result is still too close to call even though majority of respondents so far prefer a big display device instead.

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The only device expected from Xiaomi this year is perhaps the Mi Note 2 according to the company’s CEO Lei Jun. The Xiaomi CEO also disclosed that he is personally monitoring the design of the Mi Note 2 and that the device will come out with lots of surprises. But from this recent poll, coupled with the earlier leaked render of the 4-inch phone identified as Xiaomi Small, it is likely that the Mi Note 2 isn’t going to be the only surprise we should be expecting from the innovative company. We may be seeing a Xiaomi smartphone with a 4-inch display as well. For the avoidance of doubt, Xiaomi’s current smallest displays are those of the Redmi 1 and Redmi 2 which come in at 4.7 inches.

Of course, you can hop into the Weibo poll and get your opinion to count on this one.

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