#Xiaomi Poco F2 Launch

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Do you know about POCO F2 (Yes, it was a thing) ?

This was my first ever thread in POCO Community India in 2021, when I had joined as one of the beta testers, so data you would be reading are of 2 years old, now as the old website for POCO Community India is dead, I wanted to preserve my work on my Tumblr blog like this. Hope that you guys would still find it interesting :)

POCO F2 was really desinged by Xiaomi (as POCO was still Xiaomi's Sub-Brand in 2019)

Recently, everyone on Internet was shocked to see the prototype images of POCO F2 on Internet.So, what the phone had ?

Specs (as per the materials I have with me):-

Redmi K20S was designed to be made available as POCO F2 for Global market, it was under Project Davinci.

It had Snapdragon 855, front shooter was desined at the left corner & had Triple camera at backside (Resolutions of these cameras & all the details relevant to this are unknown), it had FHD+ Amoled Display & fingerprint sensor at the back. The prototype had Black and Green Colour & Glass Back.

It was running on Engineering Rom (AOSP), probably the MIUI build was never built.

Overall, It was a good update over POCO F1 in tems of 2019 standards.

I don't have any information why the project was cancelled from my level

POCO had brought POCO F2 Pro (Redmi K30 Pro Global version) for Global market, they had the plans of bringing back or creating new "F2" atlest for the Indian markets, but due to Pandemic situation in 2020

F2 never appeared for Indian market/Globally.

In 2021, POCO Launched POCO F3 (Redmi K40 aka. Mi 11X for India) Globally & POCO F3 GT (Redmi K40 Gaming Edition) exclusively for India & brought back the "F" series for Indian market.

In an episode of POCO AMA, Mr. Anuj Sharma (EX Country Director - POCO India) had said that he wants to use Snapdragon 888 in POCO F3 Pro, so we can expect more from POCO in future.

All the material provied in this post are taken from Xiaomiui Prototypes Telegram Channel, you check their channel for all the released/unreleased prototypes of Xiaomi Phones etc.

Signing off,

More interesting blogs are coming next, stay tuned :)

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Poco Teases Launch of New Device in India 'Soon'

Poco Teases Launch of New Device in India ‘Soon’

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Poco appears to be working on a new device, likely to be a phone, for Indian consumers. The Xiaomi sub-brand in a video on Twitter has highlighted that the new device will launch “soon,” however, its name remains a mystery. The video also shows the brand’s apparent dedication towards the ‘Make in India’ initiative, especially amid rising anti-China sentiments in the country. More…

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Poco Teases Launch of New Device in India 'Soon'

Poco Teases Launch of New Device in India ‘Soon’

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Poco appears to be working on a new device, likely to be a phone, for Indian consumers. The Xiaomi sub-brand in a video on Twitter has highlighted that the new device will launch “soon,” however, its name remains a mystery. The video also shows the brand’s apparent dedication towards the ‘Make in India’ initiative, especially amid rising anti-China sentiments in the country. More…

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Poco Teases Launch of New Device in India 'Soon'

Poco Teases Launch of New Device in India ‘Soon’

Poco appears to be working on a new device, likely to be a phone, for Indian consumers. The Xiaomi sub-brand in a video on Twitter has highlighted that the new device will launch “soon,” however, its name remains a mystery. The video also shows the brand’s apparent dedication towards the ‘Make in India’ initiative, especially amid rising anti-China sentiments in the country. More details about…

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Poco F2 Pro आज होगा लॉन्च, ऐसे देखें लाइव स्ट्रीम नई दिल्ली स्मार्टफोन कंपनी Poco आज भारत में अपनी एफ-सीरीज का लेटेस्ट स्मार्टफोन Poco F2 Pro…

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Poco F2 Launch Expected on May 12 as Company Sends Out Invites: Report

Poco F2 Launch Expected on May 12 as Company Sends Out Invites: Report

Poco is expected to launch the follow-up to its Poco F1 smartphone that came out in 2018, this year. While there is no concrete information on the Poco F2, there have been some leaks about the existence of a Poco F2 Pro, as well as a Poco M2 Pro. Now, Xiaomi’s Spanish PR agency has reportedly sent out virtual invites to a Poco event scheduled for May 12. Poco’s Twitter account also shared a…

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रेडमी K30 प्रो से अलग होगा Poco F2, जानें डीटेल

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नई दिल्ली रेडमी K30 प्रो (Redmi K30 Pro) के चीन में लॉन्च होने के बाद फोन के इंडिया लॉन्च के बारे में चर्चाएं चल रही हैं। हाल ही में ऐसी खबरें आईं थी कि भारत में यह Poco F2के तौर पर लॉन्च किया जा सकता है। अब Poco के GM सी. मनमोहन ने अब यह साफ कर दिया है कि Poco F2 स्मार्टफोन रेडमी K30 प्रो से अलग होगा। यानी कंपनी रेडमी K30 की रिब्रैंडिंग करके Poco F2 नाम से भारत में नहीं उतारेगी।…

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What happened to Redmi K series in India & POCO F Series??

This blog was originally available on Revue (by Twitter) & was written back in June, 2022 before the launch of Redmi K50i,

As the Revue is getting discontinued, I am making this interesting thread available on Tumblr,

I have tried some alternative platforms to continue my blogs & finally decided to do that on Tumblr. This will be the place, where I will share the details which I can't share on any Community

My Twitter handle will be my primary platform to communicate with everyone & everything that I would do in other platforms will be shared to there.

Many of you must be wondering what Redmi is doing like literally after Redmi K20 Series launch in 2019, they are going to bring back Redmi K series as Redmi K50i in 2022 in India (it’s the renamed version of Redmi Note 11T Pro for India) & why POCO is rebranding original Redmi K phones under POCO F series, right?

Give me a chance, I am explaining what has actually happened in past few years. If you found this article useful, informative & interesting then please share to your friends & family members who might be interested in this.

Why this has happened?

Xiaomi's thinking of flagship market in India: -

Redmi in India always had the plans to bring the successor of Redmi K20 Pro in India, as POCO had for POCO F1’s successor as in form of POCO F2 originally in 2019 (yes, you read it right) In Q1, 2020, we had the Covid outbreak throughout the country. Redmi K30 4G was introduced to India as POCO X2 for POCO’s comeback.

POCO F2 was originally planned

Long before, people had asked the Xiaomi team to bring flagships to Indian market. This had happened till Mi 5. But Xiaomi India wanted to focus on majority share of Indian Smartphone market which is in budget segment (>₹5k - ₹15k), so they established the identity of “M-I” as budget friendly brand & missed the great opportunity for flagship competition with OnePlus in India. 

Observing people’s request for flagships priced at aggressive pricing Mi MIX 2 was introduced. But this didn’t set that great impact on the Indian industry. And for this Xiaomi India didn’t bring that much flagships till 2018, later in 2020 with the introduction of Mi 10 in Indian market, this thing got changed.

In 2018, to change the scenario POCO brand was introduced. F1 did that what we all know. Looking at the success of POCO F1, Xiaomi decided to do the same on with Redmi. So, they introduced Redmi as their 2nd sub brand after POCO during the launch event of Redmi Note 7 series in Q1 2019. (Source)

POCO was the reason for the birth of Redmi K

Redmi K series was introduced to walk on the same path of POCO F1. Few guys still don’t know that how “K20” word came up. This actually made up from “Flagship Killer 2.0”. 

POCO's point of view on this: -

Many people must not know that POCO F2 was a thing. Yes, it was planned to be launched back in 2019 in its original form. This was scheduled to happen just after Redmi K20 series India launch/ Mi 9T series global launch. After this device got launched to Global markets, few days later this was planned to be launched as Redmi K20S for Chinese market. But, very sadly this plan was cancelled. If this had happened, we shouldn’t be seeing POCO to be called as “rebranding brand”. We may have seen the alter reality.

I have covered POCO F2 in POCO Community India (Here’s the link of that thread, I have shared the details in here), and after getting the invitation for the beta testing of it, my first ever thread was on POCO F2 (by this I think you guys can get an idea how I am emotionally attached to POCO, I even had made this silly Tweet once, now don’t take this Tweet seriously 🙈🙈)

POCO F2 Black variant Prototype

POCO F2 Green Variant Prototype

POCO was also determined to re-enter the Indian & Global smartphone market.

Redmi in India always had the plans to bring the successor of Redmi K20 Pro in India. In Q1, 2020, we had the Covid outbreak throughout the country. Redmi K30 4G was introduced to India as POCO X2 for POCO’s comeback. 

You guys must know that Redmi K30 Pro came to global markets as the POCO F2 Pro. But this wasn’t planned for Indian market. C Manmohan had said POCO F2 Pro won’t be coming to India & this won’t be POCO F1’s successor. (This is the source article confirming my statement. In this article you will see that C Manmohan had addressed this on an interview with Amit Bhawani.)

During a fan meet-up at this same time, Manu Kumar Jain had said that Redmi K30 Pro was coming to India as Redmi K30 Pro only. The source of this statement is from Techno Ruhez’s Tech news (at that time I didn’t know about Mi FCs & that the people in these FCs get chance to meet/ talk with Xiaomi officials, so after knowing this I joined the Mi FC Kolkata Telegram group actually🙈🙈. And during this time like a normal fellow, I used to watch Tech Youtuber’s contents daily)

Redmi K30 Pro was coming to India as Redmi K30 Pro only

But, as the Covid situations got worse & the lockdowns got extended, launching a ₹40K phone right after Mi 10 was big gamble for them.

In an online meeting on Zoom, Manu Kumar Jain was talking about Redmi K30 Pro (Screenshot taken from YouTube)

At this time, many people came to online (who weren’t that much active on internet before), online classes, job meetings, more OTT contents consumption happened like never before. So, people preferred budget smartphones for this & it’s the same reason why Android Tablets are back again in the market.

So, observing the industry needs of that, Redmi K30 Pro was dropped for Indian market. Maybe Redmi K30 5G/ Redmi K30i could have been in their plans to bring as non pro version of Redmi K30 Pro in India, I don’t know about this.

Redmi K30 Series was planned to be launched for India

Even Mi Note 10, Note 10 Lite were in their plans for bringing in the Indian market, but this decision was also dropped.

They focused on budget Redmi 9 series & Note 9 series for the demand of public back in that time (and Mi Community India ban also happened by this).

Later Mi 10T series was brought to Indian market as to provide the essence of budget flagship (but it lacked Amoled for which it didn’t receive well response)

In the meantime, POCO originally had the plans to bring F1’s successor to India, introduce M series right after X2’s launch. But, Covid + Lockdown hit their plans. It’s believed that they had the plans for recreating POCO F2 for India. Redmi K30 Ultra was planned to be brought as the “POCO F2”.

But after observing the situation which wasn’t right in that moment, the plan was again dropped. Their main focus was to work on their biggest product for 2020 “POCO X3”. This is why C series was introduced. As the C series was introduced in the 3rd Generation, that’s why it has “POCO C3” naming. (If you guys follow me on Twitter, then you guys should have seen that I have explained their nomenclature & recently discussed about the updated naming scheme in their 4th Generation, I’m sharing the link of that Twitter thread)

C series wasn’t planned in the first place

The things we started seeing from 2021: -

In early February 2021, Redmi K40 series was launched in mainland China. In March 2021, Redmi India introduced Redmi Note 10 Series Globally.

In this year, Xiaomi India had planned to differentiate their products in Xiaomi & Redmi brands.

I can still remember that we had been invited in the “Redmi Note 10 Series Indian launch Event Watch Party” which was happening on over a Zoom Call arranged by Gitansh Anand Sir.

After the Launch Event was done & all of us went wild after watching the prices of Redmi Note 10, Note 10 Pro, Note 10 Pro Max, a Q&A Session on these products was arranged with Raghu Reddy Sir (Ex CBO, Xiaomi India). In that session we were given a hint that “Redmi K40 Series was coming to India”.

Later you all know that Redmi K40 became POCO F3 for Global & Mi 11X for Indian market and Redmi K40 Pro+ became Mi 11i for Global & Mi 11X Pro for Indian market.

Finally, Redmi K40 Gaming got launched in Chinese market & this came to Indian market as POCO F3 GT.

Why rebranding happened?

From 4th generation of K series, Redmi made it as budget flagship with aggressive price point. Since in global markets the og “Xiaomi�� phones & various accessories do sell well, that’s why og Xiaomi products work in global markets.

POCO Global introduced F3 as almost at the same price of Pocophone F1, they were able to utilise that opportunity. And POCO India had brought POCO X3 Pro as the successor to POCO F1, but to redefine POCO F, they needed to go with K40G as POCO F3 GT.

In other hand, Indian smartphone Industry has the mammoth share of market in “₹7k - ₹15K”, the >₹20K market has slightly evolved & people who were buying flagships were directly preferring phones >₹40K. Phones at ~₹50k were placed as flagships by Oneplus (iQOO wasn’t in the competition before this). If one was going up >₹55K, then people were preferring Samsung Galaxy S in Android & Apple iphones.

So, bringing actual Xiaomi branded Mi 11, Mi 11 Pro was like a gamble which Xiaomi India understood with Mi 10. So, budget flagships with aggressive pricing were their choice to go with. That’s why, Mi 11X series happened.

This is why we are watching og Redmi products in Indian market with either Xiaomi or POCO branding nowadays.

And for Global markets POCO is launching the Redmi Products with their customizations to bring in aggressive pricing.

POCO-Redmi was planned with POCO F2 - Redmi K20S from 2019

This is why we have now POCO F4 series.

Return of Redmi K in India: -

I have said in this blog that, Redmi India has always tried to bring the K series back to Indian market. But since, Redmi K series is flagship offering from “Redmi” brand, now Redmi in India can’t put the K in their desirable price point, this can become too much expensive & a crazy gamble in 2021 right after lockdowns of 2020.

So, finally in 2022 the Redmi K is coming back to India in the form of “Redmi K5Oi”. Here “i” stands for “India”, i.e., “i = For India”.

Well, this is an unreleased product at the time of my writing, so I should not be talking about it that much, but I can assure that in that price segment where it’s coming in, will be the “most powerfull smartphone” and gamer’s delight. For your kind information Redmi Note 11T Pro which is launched in Global markets as POCO X4 GT & this is coming as Redmi K50i in India.

This was also planned to be launched as POCO X4 GT in India as the successor to POCO X3 Pro’s performance icon, but Redmi needed this device to reboot K series for India.

Hope that you guys liked my blog & understand what has happened in past 3-4 years with POCO F & Redmi K. I also hope that you have understood why this happened. I tried my best to make this in simple language with interesting & informative presentation.

I have one request, if you guys liked & found this blog as helpful, please share this to your friends & family members who are also interested in Xiaomi & POCO.

I personally want all Xiaomi & POCO Fans to know about this Globally. I have explained those topics which used to be unknown/ not understandable to most of the people. Hope that everyone read this blog.

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Redmi K30 Pro Could Possibly Launch in India as the Poco F2 Ever since the Redmi K30 Pro launched in China, there are rumours that the handset will launch in India as the Poco F2.

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Redmi K20 Leaks: Everything we know so far

Redmi K20 Leaks: Everything we know so far

Xiaomi Redmi K20 is launching next week and its information is coming out before it. A new picture has surfaced in which its design can be seen. (more…)

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Xiaomi Poco F2 launch with dual selfie camera, in display fingarprint

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Poco X3 Launch date, Specifications, Price, Detail Review

Poco X3 Launch date : The price of Poco X3 in India is expected to start at Rs 16,999. It is planned that the smartphone will be launched on 08 September 2020. As for the specs, the Poco X3 is rumored to have a 4700 mAh battery, 64 GB storage, 6 GB RAM and a 765 g Snapdragon processor. 

According to our legal source, the Chinese company has launched a new update to the Xiaomi Poco X series smartphone. The name of which is Xiaomi Poco X3.    

Poco X3 Launch date, Detail Review

Key Specs

Poco X3 Launch Date : 08 September, 2020 (Unofficial)

Price : Rs. 16,999

Ram : 6 GB

Internal Memory : 64 GB

Front Camera : 20 MP + 2 MP

Rear Camera : 64 MP + 8 MP + 2 MP + 2 MP

Battery : 5160 mAh

Display : 6.67 inch

Processor : Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G

Colors : Blue, Purple and Red colours

This Xiaomi Poco X3 smartphone comes with a large battery pack and a great optical device. If you’re going to get the next smartphone news. Nonetheless, you may still be able to read this full article and get a better picture of this smartphone. Xiaomi New Cell Phone.

Poco X3 Display and Processor

As for the specification, the tipster leaks that the Poco X3 has a 6.67-inch 120Hz display with 240Hz touch latency. The device will be launched at the end of this month and would have a 120Hz OLED display. The phone has been reported to be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 732 SoC.

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As mentioned, the Poco X3 is tilted to a 64-megapixel quad camera setup. Up front, the handset is expected to have a 20-megapixel front sensor.

The phone is equipped with a 64 MP main camera with a circular rear camera design similar to that of the Poco X2 and Poco F2 Pro. The device also made a trip for certification with the “M2007J20CG” and “M2007J20CT” model numbers.

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The listing shows that the phone will offer 5160 mAh of battery and 33 W of high-speed charging. Poco X3 was also spotted inside the official TUV Rheinland database by the tech guy (posted via Twitter). The unit will be backed with support for 33W fast charging technology, according to the listing.

There is a centered punch-hole cutout on the front, accommodating a selfie camera and a small bezel.

There’s no other official information available, but as suggested in our coverage below, the Poco X3 is expected to land in just a few day.

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Poco f2 launching on 12 may 2020 .Many rumers were spreaded about the xiaomi poco f2 , a lot of evidence has mounted to confirm that Poco F2 Pro will be a rebranded version of xiaomi Redmi K30 Pro. But the Redmi K30 Pro is restricted to China market, Poco F2 looks to be a global device.

It is estimated  that Poco F2 Pro will be priced at around Rs 46,900. The price is based as ,the base model with the 128GB storage.