Today in China, Redmi officially introduced the new flagship Redmi K70 Pro. This is the brand’s first smartphone based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 single-chip system.

Accordingly, this is the most powerful Redmi in history. In AnTuTu, Redmi K70 Pro scores 2.247 million points – on par with Xiaomi 14 and other flagships on Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (except for Red Magic 9 Pro). A very large vapor chamber is responsible for cooling the SoC and components.

The temperature of the components is monitored by 9 sensors, and they are located not only in the area of ​​the SoC and battery, but also in the main camera modules. Data from these sensors is analyzed by AI. In general, AI is used almost everywhere in the Redmi K70 Pro (this also applies to scenarios for using the smartphone by the user, and analysis of shooting conditions, and optimization of performance in games), so it can well be called an AI smartphone. Sorry, Samsung.

The OLED C8 screen, jointly developed by TCL and Redmi, is characterized by a diagonal of 6.67 inches and a resolution of 2K. An important feature of the display is ultra-high brightness of 4000 cd/sq.m. In terms of peak brightness, Redmi K70 Pro has surpassed all smartphones currently on the market. But OnePlus 12 will have higher peak brightness.

The main sensor of the Redmi K70 Pro main camera is a 50-megapixel Light and Shadow Hunter 800 optical format 1/1.55 ​​inches with large pixels measuring 2 microns. The module with it includes a wide-angle lens with an F/1.6 aperture and an optical image stabilization system.

The module with a telephoto lens (it provides 2x optical zoom) uses a 50-megapixel sensor, and the third module uses a 12-megapixel sensor and an ultra-wide-angle lens with a viewing angle of 120°.

The Redmi K70 Pro battery capacity is 5000 mAh and supports 120 W charging. Redmi K70 Pro is the brand’s first model with HyperOS based on Android 14 out of the box.

Prices for the version with 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of flash memory are $460. Redmi K70 Pro has become the most affordable smartphone with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3; other flagships are about $100 more expensive.

Hana Securities shared sales statistics for Samsung smartphones this year. It turned out that during the period from January to September, Samsung sold 25.06 million smartphones of the flagship Galaxy S23 line – 23% more than the Galaxy S22 was sold during the same period.

The Galaxy S23 Ultra leads the sales structure: 11.63 million devices were sold in 9 months. In second place is the base Galaxy S23 with a result of 8.91 million, and the Galaxy S23 Plus is in the least demand – 4.52 million units were sold.

But Samsung’s line of folding flagships of the new generation is not much more popular than its predecessors: 4.86 million devices of the Galaxy Z5 line were sold in 3 months – only 4% more than in 2022, devices of the Galaxy Z4 series were sold during the same period. The most popular is the Galaxy Z Flip5, with 3.08 million units sold. Sales of Galaxy Z Fold5 amounted to 1.79 million units.

While Samsung is only promoting its 200-megapixel sensors as “telephotos,” Honor is preparing the world’s first smartphone with such a 160-megapixel camera.

The carrier of such a camera will be Magic6 Pro. It will have a 160-megapixel sensor, but there are no details here. Perhaps physically it will still be a sensor with a resolution of 200 megapixels, but Honor will limit its working area in such a way that only 160 megapixels will be active.

The main camera of the new product will be based on the Omnivision OV50K sensor. This is not an inch sensor, but quite large – 1/1.3-inch optical format. Interestingly, the Honor Magic5 Pro has a larger main camera sensor – 1/1.12 inches.

Insider Digital Chat Station, who shared the information, was previously the first to accurately report the characteristics and release dates of Redmi K30, K40, Xiaomi Mi 10 and Mi 11.