Xiaomi’s Redmi K30 Pro brings Snapdragon 865 phones down to $425

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  The Xiaomi Redmi K30 Pro. [credit: Xiaomi ]

Chinese OEM Xiaomi is gunning for the price/performance crown with the newly announced Redmi K30 Pro. This phone features Qualcomm's flagship Snapdragon 865-normally found in $1,000 smartphones-at a price point that has been massaged all the way down to CNY 2,999 ($425).

The phone has a 6.67-inch 2400i-1080 OLED display at a regular-old 60Hz. The base model gets 6GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 128GB of UFS3.0 storage, and there's a bigger, faster tier with 8GB of faster LPDDR5 memory and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage, which ups the price to CNY 3,399 ($481). The phone has a 4700mAh battery, 33w fast charging, an in-screen fingerprint reader, and a not-great dust and water resistance rating of IP53 (it will probably survive rain, but it's not submergible).

The front design looks incredible for this price point, thanks to the pop-up 20MP front camera. There's no notch, hole punch, or any other screen blemishes, just an all-screen design. There's a headphone jack on the top edge, NFC, Wi-Fi 6 compatibility, and even an IR port. Thanks to the Snapdragon 865, there is sub-6GHz (but not mmWave) 5G compatibility.

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