Redmi K30 Launch on December 10; Here's Everything We Know so Far

After weeks of anticipation and teasers, Redmi K30 will finally go official on December ten (tomorrow) as the outset-ever 5G smartphone in the company'south portfolio. Redmi has been pretty active in teasing not only the design but also the hardware specs and features on social media in the days upward to the effect. We already know a whole lot about Redmi K30 prior to its China launch tomorrow, so we decided to gather all of the information in one place. So, here'due south everything we know most the Redmi K30 (both 5G and 4G variant) so far:

Redmi K30 5G: Specs and Features

Design + Brandish

Starting off with the design, Redmi K30 will avowal a glass sandwich build with Corning'due south Gorilla Glass 5 protection on top. It will nonetheless come up in four attractive colour variants – blue, lavender (seen below), white, and a pink gradient (shown in the header). But, the huge difference hither volition be the frosted glass back console – similar to the iPhone 11 Pro, and a sleeky circular camera ring.

Redmi K30 is confirmed to feature a dual-photographic camera dial-pigsty design, which is said to be only 4.38mm in size. Information technology features a 6.67-inch FullHD+ IPS LCD panel with slim bezels, except for a slightly bigger chin. This means it volition avowal a 21:ix attribute ratio and 1080 x 2400 pixels resolution. Some rumors likewise propose that the Redmi K30 display volition also back up a higher 120Hz refresh rate but Redmi itself hasn't talked about it simply yet.

This is a massive step back from the AMOLED panel that comes baked in the Redmi K20. You won't come across the deep blacks and colors pop with an LCD display. Also, there isn't an in-brandish fingerprint sensor onboard. Redmi K30 launches with a side-mounted physical fingerprint sensor – similar to the Milky way S10e and Award V30. Information technology also acts every bit a power button, for those unaware.

Snapdragon 765G

Qualcomm recently announced its first-ever integrated chipset, the Snapdragon 765 and 765G with a built-in 5G modem. The Redmi K30 has been confirmed to exist the first-ever phone to be powered by the Snapdragon 765G chipset. This too makes it Redmi'due south first 5G smartphone. It's based on the 7nm EUV process, packs the new Kryo 475 cores (clocked at up to 2.3GHz), and Adreno 620 GPU.

Snapdragon 765G includes the Snapdragon X52 modem-RF system, which supports dual-mode SA/NSA, mmWave, sub-half-dozen, TDD/FDD frequencies. Yous tin get download and upload speeds up to 3.7Gbps and one.6Gbps respectively.

64MP Quad-Camera

Redmi K30 is confirmed to feature a vertical quad-camera setup sitting within a circular patch (or ring, even so y'all want to refer to information technology. Redmi calls it the Vivid Eye, merely that'southward super cringy and so yeah, we're calling it a circular patch) on the rear. Redmi K30 is the get-go smartphone to include the 64MP Sony IMX686 sensor along with an ultra-wide-bending sensor with a 120-degree field-of-view (FOV), a dedicated macro lens, and depth sensor. You tin read almost the Redmi K30'south camera specs correct here.

As for the dual-camera punch-hole, Redmi K30 is confirmed to feature a 20MP primary sensor for selfies and a secondary depth sensor for crisp portraits on the front. We will surely see a host of photo and video features from Xiaomi broiled into this smartphone.

Battery + Charging

Redmi K30 comes equipped with a 4500mAh battery pack, which should exist enough to concluding you a whole solar day, even with a 120Hz display console. The company is also bumping up the charging speeds with support for 30W fast-charging. We volition have to wait for the official launch to see if we get a 30W adapter bundled in the box or not.

Additional Features

Autonomously from the key specifications, Redmi K30 is likewise confirmed to back up multi-part NFC, a 3.5mm headphone jack with Hullo-Res audio support, dual-frequency GPS, and a 1217 super linear speaker for louder audio output. You can check out the teasers for all these features down below:

At that place'due south a 4G LTE Variant of Redmi K30?

Now, Redmi K30 may be the company's first 5G-enabled smartphone merely it volition have a 4G variant likewise. Redmi GM Lu Weibing himself confirmed the existence of the 4G variant on Weibo saying that (translated from Chinese), "The 5G network has but been rolled out. In add-on, the current 5G data charges of operators are still relatively high. If you recall the package is too expensive, don't worry, [the] Redmi K30 too has a 4G network version to choose from."

A smartphone with model number M1912G7BE/M1912G7BC appeared on TENAA recently and it's rumored to be the Redmi K30 4G variant. The listing suggests that Snapdragon 730G will run the evidence under the hood, coupled with up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Information technology doesn't explicitly list the chipset's proper noun but does state that information technology will be an octa-core chipset clocked at up to 2.2GHz.

So yeah, Redmi K30 will bring some meaningful upgrades over its predecessor including and virtually chiefly 5G support. The LCD display console could be seen as a downgrade over the Redmi K20 and no moving part is a win-win for everyone. What is your opinion towards the Redmi K30? Let us know in the comments beneath.