Xiaomi presents 130 euro smartphone with 48-megapixel camera

Xiaomi has presented the Redmi Note 7, a smartphone that currently costs about 127 euros. The phone has a 48-megapixel rear camera. It is probably the previously announced Sony IMX586.

The Redmi Note 7’s camera sensor has a size of about 1/2″, while the pixels themselves are 0.8 microns in size. By default, it can combine the information of four pixels in the quadbayer layout; instead of alternating between pixels with different color filters, the sensor has clusters of four pixels with the same color filter. The software can combine them into a 12-megapixel photo. Huawei applies that technique to last year’s P20 Pro and Mate 20 Pro. sits a 5-megapixel sensor to estimate depth and blur the background.

The LCD has a diagonal of 6.3″, an area of ​​about 97 square centimeters and a resolution of 2340×1080 pixels. It has a round notch for the front camera. The phone measures 159x75mm and 8.1mm thick. In that glass housing. The back has a 4000mAh battery, the top has a 3.5mm jack, and the bottom has a USB-C port with Qualcomm Quick Charge 4. The soc is a Snapdragon 660, also from Qualcomm.

The cheapest configuration, which costs 999 yuan or around 127 euros, has 3GB lpddr3 memory and 32GB emmc storage. The most expensive version has 6GB and 64GB and costs converted at 180 euros. The phone comes out next week. Nothing is known about a release in the Benelux. The Note 7 is the first smartphone that Xiaomi releases under the name of sub-brand Redmi. Xiaomi has had a series of budget phones called Redmi for years, but that is now a separate brand that is prominently on the back.