Shortly after the release of Redmi's mid-range smartphone, the Redmi Note 7 Pro, rumors surfaced online that the company is preparing to launch a flagship smartphone based on the latest Snapdragon 855 SoC.
The publication of a photo of Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun next to two new unannounced smartphones only added fuel to the fire, as they began to say that one of them is a device based on the Snapdragon 855.
Therefore, the posting of a Redmi Pro 2 render with a Snapdragon 855 on board and a retractable camera by one of the users on the Weibo social network was received with interest. However, as it turned out, this was only the result of research by one of the designers, and not by the company. This is how the vice president of Xiaomi Group and general manager of the Redmi brand, Lu Weibing, spoke about the render.
We add that a day earlier, Weibing denied rumors that the new flagship will have a retractable camera. βThis will not happen,β the head of the brand briefly commented on the rumors. Indeed, reports of the intention to equip the new model with a retractable camera from the very beginning seemed implausible, since Xiaomi had not used such a design in its devices before.
Source: 3dnews.ru