Redmi will launch the ‘lightest and thinnest’ gaming phone this month
- The Redmi gaming phone is slated to hit the market later this month.
- The company says it will be the lightest, thinnest flagship of hardcore gaming.
- It will also be affordable when compared to existing gaming phones in the market.
The Xiaomi sub-brand Redmi has been testing its first gaming smartphones since the beginning of the year. The company has now announced via Weibo that the Redmi gaming phone will hit the market in late April.
The company’s general manager, Lu Weibing, also shared the reasons for introducing the gaming device in a machine-translated post on Weibo, and gave us some pointers on what to expect from it.
According to Weibing, gaming and e-sports are the company’s next major focus. He said that 70% of Redmi users are young and spend a lot of time playing games. That’s why the company decided to bring together a number of its product managers and engineers who love gaming to create the dedicated Redmi gaming phone.
Weibing also noted that most of the flagship gaming devices are expensive, unusual in appearance, and bulky. They have always targeted a niche category of geek gamers. According to him, many use existing gaming phones as a replacement handset rather than a daily driver.
The Redmi gaming phone will solve all these problems and be a “normal” mobile phone. According to Weibing, in addition to keeping the device user-friendly on a day-to-day basis, the company also made it a game-centric phone. The phone apparently went through a lot of design changes during its development cycle. Weibing claims it will be “the lightest, thinnest flagship hardcore gaming” out there.
Redmi has also promised to keep its brand value for money. Weibing confirmed that the upcoming phone will be affordable so more people can experience it compared to current gaming phones.
The device is most likely powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 1200 processor, as previously tested by the company. The chipset offers software-controlled ray tracing and support for the refresh rate of 168 Hz. However, the GPU comes from last year’s SoC flagship.
There is no word on whether or not the Redmi gaming phone will have physical inputs. However, Weibing said in his post that the company focused on “performance, display and control”.
