Xiaomi Redmi K50 Gaming

Xiaomi Redmi K50 Gaming
Brand: Xiaomi
Category: Mobiles
  • SoC: Qualcomm SM8450 Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (4 nm)
  • RAM: 8GB/ 12GB RAM
  • Storage: 128 GB/ 256GB
  • Display: OLED
  • Camera: 20 MP/ 64 MP (wide), 8 MP (ultrawide), 2 MP (macro)
  • OS: Android 12

Our Rating

The overall rating is based on review by our experts

8.4 4.2 1
  • Performance 8 / 10
  • Display 8 / 10
  • Design 9 / 10
  • Software 8 / 10
  • Camera 8 / 10
  • Battery 9 / 10
  • Value For Money 9 / 10

Recently, Xiaomi launched its flagship device with the name Xiaomi Redmi K50 Gaming in the gadget industry which arrives with amazing features and specs. The handset is available in China country only with different colors such as Shadow, Silver Wing, Ice Chop, and AMG F1 Champion Edition colors. The expected price for the Redmi K50 handset is about 460 EUR, (3899 Yuan) in China (Rs. 39,254 in Indian Rupees).

Specs of Xiaomi Redmi K50 Gaming in detail:

As we already know that Xiaomi built plenty of big changes in their coming handsets which include the design, displays, software of gadgets, and so on. The device comes with a magnificent 6.67 inches, 107.4 cm2 with OLED flexible straight screen AI display which gives you a crisp and clear picture quality, reduces smear, and offers sunshine screen, and eye protection. It supports up to 120Hz refresh rate, 1B colors with an HD+ display. It has a display resolution of 1080 x 2400 pixels, a 20:9 aspect ratio with a pixel density of 395 ppi.

The dimension of the phone measures 162.5 x 76.7 x 8.5 mm (6.40 x 3.02 x 0.33 in) and weight 210 g (7.41 oz). Moreover, it supports dual-SIM (GSM and GSM) mobile that accepts Nano-SIM and Nano-SIM cards. Not only this, the handset is protected with Corning Gorilla Glass from the front side with an aluminum frame and covered with plastic at the back also.

The Xiaomi Redmi K50 Gaming device runs on the  MIUI 13 user interface based on Android 12. It is powered by Qualcomm SM8450 Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (4 nm) chipset coupling an Octa-core (1×3.00 GHz Cortex-X2 & 3×2.50 GHz Cortex-A710 & 4×1.80 GHz Cortex-A510) processor. It runs Adreno 730 GPU. The phone is available in two storage patterns including 128 GB with UFS 3.1 internal storage with 8 GB RAM/ 12 GB RAM LPDDR5 (6400Mbps), and 256 GB with UFS 3.1 internal storage with 12 GB RAM LPDDR5 (6400Mbps) only.

Coming to the camera part, the Redmi K50 Gaming phone packs with triple cameras module consisting primary camera of 64 MP (wide) with f/1.7 aperture, 8 MP with f/2.2 aperture (ultrawide), and 2 MP (telephoto) with f/2.4 aperture depth shooter lens. Furthermore, the primary camera is capable of 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/120fps, 720p@960fps, HDR videos.

The device setup has Dual-LED flash, HDR, support hardware Remosaic, flicker sensor, panorama, super night scene, cine mode, cine filters, super image stabilization, focus peaking, exposure feedback, voice control photography, timer continuous shooting, magic clone long exposure, voice to subtitles, dynamic photos, VLO, AI watermark, AI camera, portrait beauty, face recognition, video beauty, kaleidoscope, pro-RAW format, video tags, video blur, and PDAF features.

Another side, the selfie camera module has a 20 MP Sony IMX596 HD. I supports 1080p@30/60fps, 720p@120fps, HDR video capability. The Redmi K50 device battery built-in lithium-ion polymer equivalent 4700mAh (Typ) capacity long-lasting non-removable battery. The phone has a fast-charging 120W immortal second charge which charges 100% battery in just 17 min (advertised). Even more, it supports Power Delivery 3.0 and Quick Charge 3+ feature which is quite superb.

Sensors on the phone have included:

  • Fingerprint (side-mounted),
  • Gyroscope Sensor,
  • Accelerometer sensor,
  • Proximity sensor,
  • Electronic Compass sensor,
  • Ultrasonic Distance Sensor,
  • 360° Ambient Light Sensor,
  • Ambient Color Temperature Sensor, and
  • Infrared Remote Control.

Connectivity options include:

  • Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6e, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot,
  • Bluetooth- 5.2, A2DP, LE, aptX HD, aptX Adaptive,
  • GPS – Yes, with A-GPS. Up to tri-band: GLONASS (1), BDS (3), GALILEO (2), QZSS (2), NavIC,
  • NFC,
  • Infrared Port,
  • Loudspeaker – Yes, with stereo speakers (4 speakers)
  • FM Radio – No
  • USB- USB Type-C 2.0, USB On-The-Go.

Xiaomi Redmi K50 Gaming - Specs

Network

  • 5G Network
  • 4G Network
  • 3G Network
  • 2G Network

Design

  • Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones.
    Bar
  • Build
    OLED
  • Dimensions
    162.5 x 76.7 x 8.5 mm (6.40 x 3.02 x 0.33 in)
  • Weight
    210 g (7.41 oz)
  • Colors
    Shadow, Silver Wing, Ice Chop, and AMG F1 Champion Edition
  • SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages.
    Standard SIM

Display

  • Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor)
    OLED
  • Size
    6.67 inches, 107.4 cm2
  • Resolution
    1080 x 2400 pixels
  • Display Colors Display Colors is refers to the number of different shades of colors that the screen is capable of displaying => 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors, Obviously 16M is highest available range of colors and better than others.
    1B colors
  • Pixel Density Pixel Density (PPI) is refers to the concentration of pixels on a particular display, measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixel density is calculated by dividing the diagonal pixel resolution of a display by its diagonal size, higher pixel density better display quality.
    395 ppi
  • Touch Screen
    Yes, up to 10 fingers
  • Display Protection Display Protection => Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use, It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind.
    Corning Gorilla Glass Victus
  • Features
    120Hz refresh rate, HDR10+, AI display, crisp and clear picture quality, reduces smear and offers sunshine screen, and eye protection.

Software

  • Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device.
    Android 12
  • Skin UI or user interface of a device is the look and feel of the on-screen menu system. How it works, its color scheme, how it responds to button presses, all of these things are part of the user interface.
    MIUI 13

Hardware

  • Chipset Chipset is a group of integrated circuits designed to perform one or a more dedicated functions, often with real time computing constraints, Popular smartphones are equipped with more advanced embedded chipsets that can do many different tasks depending on their programming.
    Qualcomm SM8450 Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (4 nm)
  • CPU CPU (Central Processing Unit) mostly known as processors, CPU processes instructions in order to carry out certain functions that make your device operate properly. Processors are often described as the brain of computers, smartphones and tablets, Smartphones and tablets rely on processors to carry out their every task, Processors are an incredibly important factor in selecting any type of computing device, including your smartphone.
    Octa-core (1x3.00 GHz Cortex-X2 & 3x2.50 GHz Cortex-A710 & 4x1.80 GHz Cortex-A510)
  • GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion.
    Adreno 730
  • RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices.
    8 GB/ 12GB
  • Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored.
    128GB/ 256GB
  • Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device.
    Fingerprint (side-mounted),
    Gyroscope Sensor,
    Accelerometer sensor,

    Proximity sensor,
    Electronic Compass sensor,
    Ultrasonic Distance Sensor,
    360° Ambient Light Sensor,
    Ambient Color Temperature Sensor, and
    Infrared Remote Control.

Camera

  • Primary Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality.
    64 MP
  • Ultrawide
    8 MP
  • Depth
    2 MP
  • Video
    4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/120fps, 720p@960fps, HDR
  • Camera Features
    Super Night Scene|Cine Mode|Cine Filters|Super Image Stabilization|Focus Peaking|Exposure Feedback|Voice Control Photography|Timer Continuous Shooting|Magic Clone Long Exposure|Voice to Subtitles|Dynamic Photos|VLOG|AI Watermark|AI Camera|Portrait Beauty|Face Recognition|Video Beauty|Kaleidoscope|Pro RAW Format|Video Tags|Video Blur
  • Selfie Camera
    20MP

Battery

  • Battery Type Battery Type => Cell phones run on various kinds of batteries depending on the manufacturer, phone size or shape and features. There are basically four types of cell phone batteries => Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium.
    Li-Poly (Lithium Polymer)
  • Capacity Battery Capacity is a measure (typically in Amp-hr) of the charge stored by the battery, and is determined by the mass of active material contained in the battery. The battery capacity represents the maximum amount of energy that can be extracted from the battery under certain conditions.
    4700 mAh
  • Fast Charging
    120W wired fast charging

Connectivity

  • Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, computers and other network devices over short distances without wires, Bluetooth technology was primarily designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices.
    5.2, A2DP, LE, aptX HD, aptX Adaptive
  • Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world.
    Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
  • Infrared Infrared connectivity is an old wireless technology used to connect two electronic devices. It uses a beam of infrared light to transmit information and so requires direct line of sight and operates only at close range.
  • USB
    USB Type-C 2.0
  • GPS GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky.
    Yes, with A-GPS. Up to tri-band: GLONASS (1), BDS (3), GALILEO (2), QZSS (2), NavIC
  • NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches.
  • Headphone Jack