Redmi X - Competition to the RealMe X

Redmi X is not the name of Redmi Flagship, confirms General Manager Lu Weibing 

Redmi X

When Xiaomi initially launched Redmi series smartphones in the Indian market, it created a furor in the Indian market providing crazy value for money smartphones at that time in the market. But as time passed on, Chinese rivals like Oppo and Honor also launched their sub-brands like RealMe and Huawei providing premium mid-range and low budget phones at a great value. All this led to stiff competition between these companies for budget smartphones.

Redmi phone with Snapdragon 855 known as 'Redmi flagship' has been rumored for quite a while in the market to take on its Chinese counterpart RealMe X by Oppo which is also a flagship phone in RealMe smartphone series.

Redmi Flagship phone is yet to launch but many leaks and renders have been showing up on the internet from few weeks and are expected to launch on May 14. Although the company hasn't made any official confirmation on the launch date of the phone. But if the phone does launch on May 14, it will collide with the launch of OnePlus 7 series smartphones.

Also, GM Lu Weibing wrote (translated), "Not called Redmi X, there will be a better name. Good night."

Redmi X may have another name with something better fitting. And the company recently teased the Redmi Flagship phone. Also, Redmi X or Redmi Flagship phone is rumored to know as Redmi K20 Pro. And there is a probability Redmi X could be a completely different device with different specifications.

Although rumored Redmi Flagship phone is tipped to have punch hole display and a triple rear camera set up at the back. Specifications are tipped to include Snapdragon 855 processor along with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage on board. The triple rear camera set up on the back comes with a 48-megapixel primary sensor, 8-megapixel secondary sensor and a 13-megapixel sensor. And the recent leaks suggest that the phone will sport a 32-megapixel front shooter for selfies. The phone will likely run on MIUI 10 on top of Android Pie. One last thing to note is that the launch of Redmi flagship will be followed by the launch of Realme X.

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Samsung Galaxy A80 Launched

Samsung launched 'A' series flagship - Galaxy A80 with rotating camera

Samsung supressed by the chinese tech giants dominating in India because of the value for money phones and steep competition amongst them. Also recently Dj Koh, global president of IT and mobile communications division of the company said in a statement "If we take a nap, we will die. I don't want to die," with a smile on his face.

Samsung Galaxy A80 

Now talking about the smartphone, Samsung Galaxy A80 was launched on Wednesday at an event in Thailand. Galaxy A80 is currently the flagship phone amongst Galaxy A series.

Specifications -

Design and Display - 

Samsung Galaxy A80 features a 6.7-inch FullHD+ (1080x2400 pixels) Super AMOLED infinity display with an aspect ratio of 20:9 and no notch. The phone has a glass sandwich design with aluminum on the sides of the phones.

Camera and Hardware - 

The smartphone is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 730G octa-core processor with (Kyro 470 cores) two cores clocked at 2.2Ghz and six cores clocked at 1.7Ghz And paired with 8GB of RAM. For graphics-intensive duties, it comes with Adreno 618 GPU.

Now, the main highlight of this phone is the camera and this smartphone features a triple rotating camera setup on the top and hence no notch. The phone comes with a primary 48-megapixel camera with f/2.0 aperture. The secondary camera is an 8-megapixel ultrawide lens with a field of view of 123 degrees and f/2.2 aperture. The third camera is a 3d depth-sensing camera. For selfies, all three cameras on the phone automatically pop-up and rotate to the front. Since the camera is rotating, it makes the rear camera rotatable for selfies with high-resolution rear camera usable for selfies. And the rotating camera also enables the phone to have a notchless display.

Software, battery, and features - 

On the software side, the phone comes with Android 9 pie out of the box on top of Samsung experience 10.0 user interface. The phones come with an inbuilt 128GB of onboard storage which isn't expandable via microSD. The smartphone comes with a 3,700 mAh battery and supports 25w fast charging. And comes with all the basic connectivity options.

It comes with features like Dolby Atmos for improved sound output with headphones or Bluetooth speakers. It also comes with super steady video mode and an intelligent performance enhancer that uses AI for performance optimizations. 

That's all for Galaxy A80 and it has been priced at 649 EUR ( Roughly 730 USD )

 Considering the price at which it has been launched this phone seems no value for money but Samsung always prices its phone better for Asian markets like India. But those rotating cameras do not seem to be as reliable as on a normal smartphone and not even as much durable when compared to normal smartphone cameras.

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