Lu Weibing confirms a new colour option for the Redmi K60 series

Redmi will hold the 2023 New Year Conference on December 27th where it will release the new Redmi K60 series flagship mobile phones. According to Lu Weibing, general manager of the Redmi brand, the Redmi K60 series will have a "Qingxue" color scheme, which is the pure white version. There are many users that are looking forward to this model judging from the comments on the announcement. From recent official teasers, Redmi K60 series will have a plain leather and sunny blue colour options. The latter is made of glass, and the back cover has a texture similar to carbon fibre. The former is made of plain leather with two vertical stitches on the left and right sides.

Earlier today, officials said that the K60 series returns to the hardcore design style, with the concept of "Blade Warrior". According to previous reports, the Redmi K60 series includes three models: Redmi K60E, Redmi K60 and Redmi K60 Pro. These models will use the Dimensity 8200, Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoCs respectively. In terms of screen, the 2K screen of the Redmi K60 Pro will upgrade again. It will support 1400nit high-light peak brightness, 12bit/68.7 billion colours, full-link P3 wide colour gamut, and 1920Hz PWM dimming. This device will support hardware level low blue light.

Redmi K60 series new colour options

This afternoon, a new set of teasers reveal that the Redmi K60 series will have a plain leather and sunny blue options. From the name of the former, we can tell that it will be made of plain leather. However, there are also reports that the sunny blue version will be made of glass. The company officials claim that the new mobile phone "puts the warm and delicate texture of plain leather at the fingertips, with a delicate suture, and the details have a sense of ritual".

Hardcore design

According to reports, the first plain leather body of the Redmi K60 is customized with reference to the interior of a sports car. It uses symmetrical dual embossing and realistic stitching. In another teaser, the new mobile phone will also use a carbon fiber texture back cover. The Redmi official said

"The Redmi K60 series returns to the hardcore design style, the concept: "Blade Warrior...First, it must be hardcore. The performance sports car has a sense of sharpness and ruthlessness; Secondly, it must be refined. Under simplicity, there are many details we consider and at the same time, there are surprises. For the same price segment, there are more fresh and interesting designs".

From the comment, we can see that the design of the Redmi K60 series will be tough. The company claims to have done a lot of upgrades to this series. This is what Redmi calls "violent tuning". According to Lu Weibing, on the basis of violent tuning, all Redmi K60 series have been upgraded to violent engines. The optimization group takes e-sports mobile phones as the benchmark models and optimizes them one by one from the dimensions of data reading and writing, underlying scheduling, touch detection, and network delay. There are also upgrades in the aspects of frame rate, power consumption, temperature, stability, etc.

In terms of heat dissipation, both the Pro and the standard version upgrade with a super large-area giant VC. This as well as a variety of large-area heat dissipation materials constitute the strongest heat dissipation system in Redmi history. In addition, all new phones are equipped with "2K direct screens". The Redmi K60 Pro will come with a 2K high-quality direct screen.

Redmi K60 series starts reservation

At present, the Redmi K60 series is now available on the e-commerce platform and reservations are open. The reservation for these mobile phones will end at 23:00 on December 27, 2022. All three models will come with different chips. The Redmi K60E will use a Dimensity 8200, K60 will come with the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 while the K60 Pro will use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.

In less than a day, more than 160,000 people participated in the reservation of the K60 series. This reveals that this device is very popular. On AnTuTu, this device scores 1.35 million points, this is the score for the top Pro model and the chips are quite decent. Lu Weibing, Redmi's general manager claims that the Redmi K60 series all have massive upgrades. The top model takes up e-sports mobile phones as the benchmark model. In terms of heat dissipation, both the Pro and the standard versions are upgraded with a super large-area giant VC heat sink. This with a variety of large-area heat dissipation materials constitutes the strongest heat dissipation system in Redmi history.

Redmi K60 series charging

Over the past few weeks, many Xiaomi phones have passed the Chinese 3C quality certification. A few days ago, a Xiaomi phone with model number 22122RK93C hit the 3C database. This device supports only 67W fast charge, this is the Redmi K60. Another Xiaomi device that passed through the 3C cert comes with model number 22127RK46C. According to reports, this device is still in the K60 series, the high end model probably. This device has a 120W charge capacity.

The Redmi K60 will come with a built-in 5500 mAh battery. In terms of fast charge, it will support 30W wireless and 67W wired charging. The high end model, Redmi K60 Pro will support 120W wired fast charging and 30W wireless charging. The charging capacity of this device is quite high and should give a full charge in less than 20 minutes.