The first smartphone powered by the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 SOC is here & it is the Redmi Note 12 Turbo. For a starting price of ¥1999, this is quite an impressive phone, considering the hardware you are getting. This phone is expected to launch outside China as the Poco F5.
The Redmi Note 12 Turbo has one significant design change compared to the other Note 12 series devices. The Note 12 Turbo does not have a camera island on the rear. So, each sensor is placed in its separate circular housing. The phone has flat sides, a 3.5mm headphone jack on top, stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos, an IR blaster, an X-axis linear motor, and a side-mounted fingerprint sensor.
The display is a 6.67-inch Full-HD+ 12-bit OLED with a 120Hz refresh rate, Dolby Vision, and HDR10+. The bezels are pretty slim, and a 16MP selfie camera is in the hole punch cutout.
The triple-camera setup includes a 64MP primary sensor with OIS, an 8MP ultrawide camera, & a 2MP macro shooter. The phone can shoot 4K videos at up to 30fps. The battery size is 5,000mAh & the charging speed is 67W.
Under the hood, the phone has the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 chipset, which scores over 1 Million points on the AnTuTu benchmark & sits just below the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 in performance. This is a 4nm-based SOC featuring a powerful Cortex-X2 prime core clocked at up to 2.91GHz. The phone has LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage.
Finally, MIUI 14 runs out of the box.
Redmi Note 12 Turbo comes in three colors as standard & here is the pricing –
- 8GB + 256GB – ¥1999 (~$291)
- 12GB + 256GB – ¥2099 (~$305)
- 12GB + 512GB – ¥2299 (~$334)
- 16GB + 1TB – ¥2599 (~$378)
Redmi also launched a special “Harry Potter” Edition of the Redmi Note 12 Turbo with 12GB RAM & 256GB storage. It is priced at ¥2399 (~$349).