MIUI Camera code suggests the Redmi K30 Pro may launch in India under the POCO brand

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Xiaomi originally spun off Redmi as an independent brand to focus on the budget segment. However, they are already vying for a share in the flagship segment, thanks to the recently launched Redmi K30 Pro (code-name “lmi”) and Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Edition (code-name “lmipro”). We even stumbled upon the names of the phone duo quite a while before the official launch event in China. We have now discovered evidence that the Redmi K30 Pro will launch in India, possibly under the POCO brand. We still don’t know if it’ll be called the POCO F2 necessarily, but since the Redmi K30 Pro is a flagship smartphone with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, it’s a likely possibility.

Thanks to XDA Junior Member kacskrz for first finding these hints in the MIUI 11 code. He shared his findings with us and we confirmed that all of the code and files he found are indeed present in the latest MIUI Camera app. Note that the MIUI Camera app is fairly obfuscated, so the method names we will mention below are likely not the true names of the methods.

It all started with decompiling the latest version of the MIUI Camera app in the latest MIUI 11 beta. We discovered a new method called Bi that returns true if b.kb and Build.IS_INTERNATIONAL_BUILD return true.

Digging a bit into b.kb, we have found that it returns true if the model name matches either “lmi” or “lmiin.”

“lmi’, as mentioned previously, is the code-name for the Redmi K30 Pro. Presumably, “lmiin” will be the code-name for the Indian variant of the Redmi K30 Pro, as “in” at the end of Xiaomi’s device code-names tend to signify this.

The method Bi is called in another method called getCustomWatermarkDefault, where the string identified by the hexadecimal value 0x7F1000FF is also called.

0x7F1000FF corresponds to a constant named device_poco_watermark_default_text, which contains the string “SHOT ON POCO Phone”.

Thus, the device code-named “lmiin”, which we anticipate to be the Indian version of the Redmi K30 Pro, is expected to display the watermark “SHOT ON POCO PHONE”. This tells us the Redmi K30 Pro may have POCO-branding when it is sold in India. This is ultimately not surprising since the Redmi K30 4G was rebranded as the POCO X2 in India. We would hope that the true successor to the legendary POCO F1 (review) will feature a flagship SoC from Qualcomm, and it looks like that is about to happen.

Here are the specifications of the Chinese Redmi K30 Pro in case you’re wondering what to expect from the POCO F2:

Redmi K30 Pro Specifications Specification Redmi K30 Pro Dimensions and Weight 163.3 x 75.4 x 8.9 mm

218 g Display 6.67″ FHD+ AMOLED

180Hz touch response rate

Max brightness of 800 nits and peak brightness of 1200 nits

HDR10+ support

Notchless display with pop-up camera

Corning Gorilla Glass 5 on front and back SoC Qualcomm Snapdragon 865: 1x Kryo 585 (ARM Cortex-A77-based) Prime core @ 2.84GHz

3x Kryo 585 (ARM Cortex-A77-based) Performance core @ 2.4GHz

4x Kryo 385 (ARM Cortex A55-based) Efficiency cores @ 1.8GHz Adreno 650 RAM and Storage Redmi K30 Pro: 6GB LPDDR4X + 128GB UFS 3.0 8GB LPDDR5 + 128GB UFS 3.1 8GB + 256GB

Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Edition: 8GB + 128GB 8GB + 256GB

Battery & Charging 4,700 mAh battery

33W fast charging Rear Camera Photo: Primary: 64MP Sony IMX686 sensor, 1/1.7” sensor, 0.8μm pixels, EIS, OIS

64MP Sony IMX686 sensor, 1/1.7” sensor, 0.8μm pixels, EIS, OIS Secondary: 5MP, Macro Zoom Edition: 8MP, telephoto, 3x optical zoom, 30x digital zoom, support 50mm macro, OIS, EIS, four-axis image stabilization

5MP, Macro Tertiary: 13MP, Wide-Angle Camera, 123°

13MP, Wide-Angle Camera, 123° Quaternary: 2MP, depth sensor Video: 8K video recording (resolution of 7680 × 4320) Front Camera 20MP Other Features 3.5mm headphone jack

Wi-Fi 6

Bluetooth 5.1

IP53 water and dust resistance

5G Multi-link

Game Turbo 3.0 with voice changer

Multi-function NFC

IR Blaster Android Version MIUI 11 based on Android 10

Thanks to PNF Software for providing us a license to use JEB Decompiler, a professional-grade reverse engineering tool for Android applications.