So much discussion on screen, lets discuss the protagonist of today’s evaluation- Xiaomi’s Redmi K30 Pro, the highest-end flagship product of Redmi mobile phones so far. It uses a full-screen design without an edge solution. For one thing, it is worthwhile for us to praise the K30 Pro is not following other brands like sheep. Rather it is focusing on other technical features and creating its own persona. Right now, it takes a certain amount of courage for mobile phone manufacturers to exist while resisting in making flagship mobile phones without a full-screen edge solution.
As for question why this design in Redmi K30 Pro ? because the current full-screen solution without edge basically uses a pop-up front camera, the pop-up front camera has a very high technical and design requirement for the stepper motor and transmission design. The elimination of the failure rate of lifting and landing is an important problem to be considered and solved while adding pop-up front camera in phone. Therefore, only mobile phone manufacturers that have the ultimate pursuit of full-screens will risk huge word of mouth drops and insist on using pop-up cameras to achieve full-screens without edge.
Front design: true full screen in pursuit of the ultimate display field of view
The front of the Redmi K30 Pro body uses a 6.67-inch Samsung AMOLED true full screen. The borders on the four sides of the screen are also very narrow. The pop-up front camera design can bring a large screen field of view with a resolution of 2400×1080 and a screen ratio of 20: 9, support DCI-P3 color gamut display, support HDR10 +. The screen uses the latest E3 material, which can achieve higher brightness, lower power consumption, and effectively reduce the blue light of the screen, which helps in eyes-protection.
The peak brightness of this screen is as high as 1200 nits, and it can exhibit 800 nits of brightness under low light for display. With the new local contrast enhancement algorithm, it can maintain excellent readability and visual perception under low light. In addition, Redmi K30 Pro also passed TÜV Rheinland’s Full Care Display Certification, which not only lowers the screen’s blue light and protects the eyes during use, but also provides high-quality screen display effects in multiple scenes.
Touch Screen for GamingRedmi K30 Pro’s screen touch sampling rate is 180Hz, which can greatly reduce the response delay in the process of mobile phone touch. The controls while playing games is more hands-on and smoother, especially in shooting games such as “PUBG Lite”, the advantage of low touch latency is self-evident, maybe the screen touch response is just a few tenths of a second, it gives you a head start in the game and kills your opponents in seconds.
Fingerprint Lock
Redmi K30 Pro uses an ultra-thin screen optical fingerprint module, which is only about 1/10 of the thickness of an ordinary screen fingerprint module. The ultra-thin screen optical fingerprint used by Redmi K30 Pro is directly stacked between the battery and the screen. The phone has more space to put a larger capacity battery (Redmi K30 Pro has a 4700mAh battery), and at the same time, it is placed in a more comfortable area for thumb to reach, making each unlocking movement smoother and smoother. From the perspective of fingerprint recognition speed and fingerprint pressing pressure, the screen fingerprint recognition of the Redmi K30 Pro is fast, but the button strength is also very light, and it is almost unlocked by smallest touch. Hence can be called as very responsive.
At center of the top of the screen, there is a tiny hidden thin strip handset design. In addition, you can’t see any other elements on the front of the Phone frame. However, there is another mystery under the screen of the Redmi K30 Pro. Two light sensors are hidden under the screen. One is a conventional under-screen light sensor that can detect ambient light + screen light. The other light sensor only receives screen light. Combined calculations can eliminate screen light effects and obtain more accurate ambient light intensity. The light sensor on the back of the phone frame can detect the light source on the back of the phone, so that the phone can get a better display even when it is used in backlight. With the cooperation of three light sensors, the screen brightness can be adjusted more intelligently. The direct benefits of this are clearer screen display and better eye protection.
Back design: Oreo four-shot + hyperboloid curved body
Redmi K30 Pro has four colors: Sky Blue, Moon Moon White, Space Gray and Star Ring Purple. The back adopts ultra-precision machining process, and the Fresnel lens texture is carved by high-precision diamond knife. The light and shadow effects are more gorgeous and the texture is more stereoscopic. Among them, the sky blue and moon white are bright in appearance , while the space gray and star ring purple adopt the light and fog AG appearance. The phone frame uses Corning’s fifth-generation Gorilla Glass, which is more wear-resistant and can effectively reduce the probability of breakage when accidentally dropped.
Whether it is the look or feel, it can be regarded as the best when held in hand or seen from distance. The most prominent on the back is the “Oreo” four-camera combination centered above the back, which is a 64-megapixel Sony IMX686 main camera (supporting OIS optical image stabilization) + 13-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens (with 123 ° super wide field of view) + 800 Megapixel telephoto lens (supports OIS optical image stabilization, supports 3X optical zoom, and up to 30x digital zoom) + 2 million pixel depth of field lens. Below the lens matrix is a flash.
The lower part of the back is the Redmi brand logo. In addition, the back of the phone frame can be said to be very simple and consistent with the design symmetry, in line with the aesthetics of Xiaomi. And it should be noted that the back of the Redmi K30 Pro uses a hyperboloid curved body design. The advantage of this is that it gives the phone a very good grip, and also makes the phone more slim when viewed from the side. . The thickness of the phone’s body of 8.9mm is really not a very thick, and the weight of 218g in the hand is not burdensome.
Middle frame design: 20 million pop-up front lens + colorful breathing light effect
Redmi K30 Pro’s phone frame uses a matte silver metal material, which is more elegant and pure. It is suitable for both boys and girls. It is a color-matched version. The left frame of the phone frame is empty, without any key design. The bezel on the right side of the phone frame is an integrated volume adjustment button. The power button uses a striking red design. The buttons feel crisp and the rebound is moderate.
Six antenna bands are distributed around the middle frame of the phone frame so that you can ensure good signal reception in different mobile phone holding positions. In the center of the bottom frame of the phone frame is the Type-C port. The Redmi K30 Pro is equipped with a 33W wired fast charge, which can be charged to 100% in 63 minutes. The mobile phone uses a charge pump high-efficiency charging scheme, with a conversion rate of more than 97%, which greatly reduces the energy loss in the conversion process and greatly improves the charging efficiency.
In addition, the Redmi K30 Pro uses the new Mi-FC fast charging technology. During the charging process, the cell voltage can be detected in real time. Under the premise of ensuring safety, the charging power of each node during the charging process is dynamically adjusted to increase high power. The duration of charging reduces the duration of inefficient charging in the second half, which in turn reduces the overall charging time.
There is a sim card slot and a speaker next to the Type-C interface. The Redmi K30 Pro uses a 1216 ultra-linear speaker unit this time. For the first time, a flexible dual diaphragm design is used inside the speaker, which can effectively improve the low-frequency and intermediate-frequency performance of the external amplifier.
As a true full-screen flagship phone, the Redmi K30 Pro uses a 20-megapixel pop-up front camera, located on the top bezel of the phone. The stepper motor with a new transmission design can achieve the pop-up or retract of the front lens in 0.58s , Built-in single magnet and 3D Hall sensor, with spring protection mechanism, the lens will automatically retract when accidentally dropped, greatly reducing the risk of accidental damage to the pop-up camera.
According to the official statement, the during design phase of the Redmi K30 Pro front camera has its lifetime usage was tested for 300,000 times, which is enough to ensure stable operation throughout the entire life cycle of phone’s normal use. The Redmi K30 Pro also further enriches the lighting effects of the pop-up lens. From the previous monochrome breathing light, it has been upgraded to a colorful breathing light, which supports color customization and can also set the corresponding animation effects.
Performance: Snapdragon 865 + LPDDR5 + UFS3.1, true flagship.
the Redmi K30 Pro is equipped with a hard-core iron clad luxury configuration such as “Snapdragon 865 + LPDDR5 + UFS3.1”.
Redmi K30 Pro uses the current top Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 mobile processing platform and uses TSMC’s 7nm process. Compared with the Snapdragon 855, the CPU performance is increased by 25%, and the power consumption is reduced by 25%; the GPU performance is increased by 25%, and the power consumption is reduced by 35%. The Snapdragon 865 has a fifth-generation AI Engine heterogeneous computing engine built in. The AI performance of the Redmi K30 Pro is more than twice that of the Snapdragon 855 model.
Redmi K30 Pro is equipped with the latest generation of LPDDR5 memory. As a memory standard in the 5G era, LPDDR5 supports a multi-lane architecture, parallel data paths, and improved data transmission bandwidth. Thanks to the multi-lane mode, the data transmission rate of LPDDR5 is increased to 5500Mbps, and the transmission bandwidth is increased to 44GB / s. This has helped in upgraded Speed leapfrog of up to 50% performance improvement. At the same time, LPDDR5 has a lower operating voltage and further reduces power consumption.
Redmi K30 Pro uses a new UFS 3.1 flash memory, supports Read Write turbo acceleration, and LPDDR5 memory can provide more powerful read and write performance and a faster computing power. In terms of actual performance, Redmi K30 Pro’s AnTuTu comprehensive score is 593076 points, CPU score is 185780 points, GPU score is 220226 points; sequential read speed will reach 1714MB / s, and sequential write speed will reach 756MB / s. The random read speed will reach 212MB / s and the random write speed will reach 230MB / s. This shows that Redmi K30 Pro can easily deal with various daily operations, including downloading, copying, installing, and switching with the support of top-level hardware configuration, Large applications, etc.
In terms of network, Redmi K30 Pro supports SA + NSA dual-mode 5G networking, and supports more than 5G frequency bands such as n1, n3, n41, n78, and n79. Of course, the mobile phone also supports the most advanced Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax standard), and also supports 8×8 Sounding For MU-MIMO. Under the Wi-Fi 6 network connection, the same router can implement 8×8 MU-MIMO networking. This significantly improves upload and download speeds, and reduce network congestion when multiple devices are transmitting in parallel.
In addition, Redmi K30 Pro supports the new MultiLink tri-network concurrency, which can realize the tri-network concurrency of 2.4GHz Wi-Fi + 5GHz Wi-Fi + 5G / 4G mobile network. At the same time connecting 2.4GHz Wi-Fi and 5GHz Wi-Fi, while doubling the network speed, it can also improve the stability of the network connection and avoid network fluctuations caused by poor Wi-Fi signals. In addition, the 5G / 4G mobile data network can also be opened for network acceleration to achieve tri-network concurrency, and ensure a high-speed and stable network connection experience to the greatest extent.
The Redmi K30 Pro uses a Z-axis linear motor, equipped with a gaming-grade 4D game vibration sense, and targeted vibration optimization in different scenarios, supplemented by Game Turbo 3.0. In the video toolbox, game voice changer, and a variety of sound effects scenes and sound video With the blessing of effective, the gaming experience has been greatly improved.
In terms of actual game experience, When used the mobile phone to experience the most popular games “PUBG or Call of Duty”, the intense game lasted nearly 50 minutes. The mobile phone always maintained a “warm” state without feeling hot. This is due to the new layout and many optimizations of the Redmi K30 Pro in terms of heat dissipation: a built-in 7-layer graphite structure, a graphene cooling layer added to the internal motherboard, and a 3435mm² VC heat-dissipating board with a large area, covering SoC and power The management chip and 5G chip area extend to the entire battery compartment, which greatly improves the heat dissipation capacity during high-load computing, fast charging and 5G high-speed download, quickly taking away the core heat and efficient heat dissipation.
Taking a picture: Sony IMX686 four-camera combination + dual OIS optical image stabilization + super night scene 2.0
In terms of taking pictures, the Redmi K30 Pro uses a four-camera combination: a 64-megapixel Sony IMX686 main camera + a 13-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens + an 8-megapixel telephoto lens + a 2-megapixel depth-of-field lens. Although it does not use 100 million pixels, this four-shot combination is also a luxurious configuration.
The main camera of the Redmi K30 Pro uses 64 million pixels of Sony IMX686, a large 1 / 1.7-inch photosensitive element, supports OIS optical image stabilization, and supports Remosaic hardware to give output of 64 million pixel high-definition photos. The details of the screen are still clearly visible after multiple magnifications. Convenient for later cropping and secondary usage in other apps. It also supports the pixel four-in-one technology. At night, a large pixel with a size of 1.6 μm is synthesized. Under dark conditions, it can also take excellent night photos with highlights but with less exposure and more details in the dark.
To Sum up
The Redmi K30 Pro has luxurious hardware configuration, especially the extreme pop-up true full screen, which really surprised the editor. Under the blessing of the price 2,999 yuan (~$424) for the 6GB/128GB model, 3,399 yuan (~$480) for the 8GB/128GB variant, and 3,699 yuan (~$523) for the 8GB/256GB option, we believe that the Redmi K30 Pro will have a very good market performance.