Redmi will be launching its first gaming smartphone by the end of April, the company has announced via a Weibo post. Redmi, the affordable brand of Xiaomi, added that the smartphone will offer a flagship-level, hardcore gaming experience and will be a cost-effective offering. The company has also stressed that it aims to create a gaming flagship for more players.

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Redmi General Manager Lu Weibing offered more details in a related post, elaborating on why the company was venturing into this space. Redmi has partnered with Call of Duty: Mobile to optimise the game experience through continuous improvements.

Weibing said that the reason for venturing into gaming space is to provide “the ultimate price-performance ratio”, according to the report.

Since Redmi smartphones have a huge demand among young users, a “generous price” point will “benefit the masses”, Weibing said. He also said that the Redmi gaming phone would disrupt the “gaming mobile phone industry with a more hardcore gaming experience and a more extreme flagship price-performance”. The executive highlighted that this handset would be the “lightest and thinnest hardcore gaming flagship” on the market.

On a previous occasion, Tipster Digital Chat Station had hinted of a probability that Redmi's first gaming smartphone would be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 1200 SoC. At that time Lu Weibing hinted that the company would stop the Redmi K30 Extreme smartphone production and launch a successor with a newly-debuted SoC.

The smartphone is speculated to be flaunting Samsung E4 AMOLED screen featuring a 144Hz refresh rate, apart from a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, and a 5,000mAh battery with 65W fast charging support, according to a report from FoneArena.