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Sami here.
In this video, we are going to take a quick look at the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition,
the first gaming phone from Xiaomi.
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into English.
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understanding it.
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The box comes with a 67w fast charger, a USB type-C cable, the K40 gaming phone, and a
transparent case.
As for the gaming phone, the most important thing of course is the gaming test, so we
went straight to testing it for 4 hours!
And we recorded all the data including the thermals, battery consumption, graphics
settings and frame rate for each game etc.
And here is our first impression.
So firstly, we are all impressed by the large 5,065mAh battery capacity considering how
slim the phone body is.
Then for the Dimensity 1200 chipset, we think it’s good enough to handle most of the games.
During our 4-hour game playing, we test the Genshin Impact for about 3 hours
and 1 hour for the Honour of Kings.
Of course, you got to know that the Genshin Impact is a super demanding game, so first
we choose the medium graphics setting and a 60 frames per second rate instead of choosing
the highest one directly.
Because if we choose that, the phone reminds us it’s high-loaded.
So for the Genshin Impact game, the frame rate maintains at 50 frames per second.
For thermals, it’s around 40 degrees Celsius, sometimes it reaches 41.
As for the battery it consumes about 15% after about 1 hour of game testing.
But later we choose the highest graphics setting, we just want to know how it performs under
the high-loaded condition.
To my surprise, it still has smooth performance, most of the time maintains at 50 frames per second as well.
But for some complicated situations like furious fighting scenes, it even drops to 41, 42,
or 43 FPS.
But overall, it’s smooth.
However, we do find one problem for the high graphics setting testing, which is the overheating issue.
It even reaches 44.5 degrees Celsius, and yeah it’s super-hot, especially the part
around the camera module.
Your left hand will be roasted like barbecue.
We do hope Redmi can somehow optimize this thermal issue a little bit instead of boasting
how good the heat dissipation the phone has.
As it has an overall good performance for the Genshin Impact, you wouldn’t be surprised
that it handles other games like Honour of Kings decently.
We just set to the highest graphics and frame rate, it always maintains at the highest 90FPS
during the whole game testing, only very few times drop to 88 or 87 FPS.
And now to the shoulder keys, this is a big help when you are playing shooting games like
PUBG.
It lets you pressing the physical keys to kill your enemies instead of using your thumbs
to touch the screen.
This is good for accurate shooting as no fingers will block your view on the screen.
And it also vibrates!
Good, isn’t it?
For the sound, it is delivered by JBL-tuned stereo speakers on the top and bottom of the
Redmi K40 Gaming Edition.
Alright, that’s a really quick hands-on of the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition phone.
I know we have left so many things in this video, like the camera performance, the sound,
the 10-bit-color AMOLED display, and also the design those.
No worries, I will do a detailed one tomorrow when I get my hands on one of these phones
in off-line Xiaomi shop, just like I always do.
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I’m Sami and I will see you in the next one.