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 like we’ll get a duo as properly, with the F6 Professional already beginning its certifications journey.
A ‘vanilla’ non-Professional F6 can be coming, and it’ll have its work lower out for the reason that F5 is a fairly robust act to observe. Nonetheless, it should strive, apparently with the yet-unannounced Qualcomm SM8635, which could possibly be branded Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 or 8s Gen 2 when it lastly will get official on March 18.
Poco F5
The F6 Professional, however, will make use of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 if it is only a rebranded Redmi K70 as rumors at the moment are saying. If all of that is correct, it will likely be fascinating to see what the efficiency delta between the 2 might be, for the reason that ‘vanilla’ mannequin might as soon as once more change into the higher purchase.
The Poco F6 can have the mannequin quantity 24069PC21G internationally, and 24069PC21I in India. Curiously, the upcoming Redmi Be aware 13 Turbo for the Chinese language market has the mannequin quantity 24069RA21C, which strongly means that the Poco F6 might be a rebranded Redmi Be aware 13 Turbo.
Moreover, the Poco F6’s codename is reportedly “Peridot”, which is a yellow ruby, and the codenames of Redmi Be aware sequence units are often utilizing gemstone names – so this might simply be yet another speculative affirmation of the aforementioned rebranding.
Both means, we’ll discover out in a number of weeks, almost definitely, as after Qualcomm makes the SM8635 official a bunch of Chinese language smartphone makers will in all probability wish to rapidly announce new units utilizing it. Redmi ought to be amongst them, after which Poco could possibly be taking its mannequin to a world viewers. Keep tuned and we’ll let you recognize once we discover out extra.
