HIGHLIGHTS
- The Redmi K50 series will be available in China on February 16th.
- The Redmi K50 series might have four devices.
- The Redmi K50 Mercedes F1 smartphone might be under development.
Redmi General Manager Lu Weibing confirmed the battery and charging specifications of the upcoming Redmi K50 Gaming Edition via a post on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo. As previously stated, the Redmi gaming smartphone will have a 4,700mAh battery and will support 120W fast charging. The smartphone can be charged completely (from zero to 100 percent) in about 17 minutes. The Redmi K50 Gaming Edition, according to Weibing, is the fastest-charging smartphone powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC.
However, the post also mentions that the 17-minute charge time is achieved when the device's fast-charging acceleration mode is manually activated.
Redmi announced a cooperation with multiple-time F1 World Championship-winning team Mercedes-AMG Petronas in a Weibo post. However, the article did not go into much information regarding the collaboration, but it did imply that a special Redmi K50 Mercedes F1 smartphone may be in the pipeline.
The Redmi K50 series will be available in China on February 16. The Redmi K50 series is stated to include the standard Redmi K50, the Redmi K50 Pro, the Redmi K50 Pro+, and the Redmi K50 Gaming Edition. At this time, it is unknown which smartphones will be unveiled at Redmi's launch event later this week. Based on the photographs revealed in the teaser teasers, it is suspected that one of the gadgets may be the Redmi K50 Gaming Edition smartphone.
