Final 12 months Poco launched two ‘flagship killers’, the F5 and F5 Professional, and the previous proved to be far more standard owing to its significantly better value to options ratio. This 12 months it looks as if we’ll get a duo as properly, with the F6 Professional already beginning its certifications journey.
A ‘vanilla’ non-Professional F6 can also be coming, and it’ll have its work minimize out because the F5 is a reasonably robust act to observe. Nonetheless, it is going to strive, apparently with the yet-unannounced Qualcomm SM8635, which might be branded Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 or 8s Gen 2 when it lastly will get official on March 18.
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The F6 Professional, alternatively, will make use of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 if it is only a rebranded Redmi K70 as rumors are actually saying. If all of that is correct, will probably be attention-grabbing to see what the efficiency delta between the 2 shall be, because the ‘vanilla’ mannequin may as soon as once more develop into the higher purchase.
The Poco F6 can have the mannequin quantity 24069PC21G internationally, and 24069PC21I in India. Curiously, the upcoming Redmi Word 13 Turbo for the Chinese language market has the mannequin quantity 24069RA21C, which strongly means that the Poco F6 shall be a rebranded Redmi Word 13 Turbo.
Moreover, the Poco F6’s codename is reportedly “Peridot”, which is a yellow ruby, and the codenames of Redmi Word collection gadgets are normally utilizing gemstone names – so this might simply be yet another speculative affirmation of the aforementioned rebranding.
Both approach, we’ll discover out in a couple of weeks, more than likely, as after Qualcomm makes the SM8635 official a bunch of Chinese language smartphone makers will most likely need to shortly announce new gadgets utilizing it. Redmi needs to be amongst them, after which Poco might be taking its mannequin to a global viewers. Keep tuned and we’ll let you recognize once we discover out extra.
