The Redmi series makes for some of the most popular Xiaomi products in and outside of China. Currently, the series is headed by the Redmi 2 and the Redmi Note, and a successor to the latter is due since a while.
From what it appears right now, Xiaomi is well aware of that and is currently prepping a successor aka the Redmi Note 2. The device — allegedly codenamed Xiaomi H3Y — will allegedly mark the return of MediaTek chipsets on Xiaomi phones, something that the company has shied away from after a fiasco.
Also, it looks like the recent MT67xx series of 64-bit SoCs from MediaTek have played a major role in the Taiwan fabricator a hot favourite. Almost all devices we revired that were powered by the MT6732 and MT6752 have received positive feedback!
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Coming back to the Redmi Note 2, besides sporting a MediaTek chip — allegedly the MT6795 — the phone will also have a 5.5-inch 1080p display, 13 mega-pixel main camera and an 8 mega-pixel/5 mega-pixel front facer. More interestingly, it’ll be, if the leaks turn out to be true, one of the first phones (after the LeTV series) to sport reversible USB connectors — USB Type-C.
Who’s excited about this one?
[ GizChina.it]
Finally… A possible good phone from xiaomi
Very interested. Was waiting for something like this from them.
did xiaomi just released that they not use mediatek for their future device, arent they ?
never say never
They never said that. Mediatek nor Xiaomi have officially stated about not using Mediatek chipsets anymore (or not selling any chipsets to Xiaomi anymore).
That was all internet rumors based off of Xiaomi’s purchase of Leadcore. It will be a few years until Leadcore can catch up with Mtek and Xiaomi can use them exclusively.