No matter how many high-end phones Xiaomi releases and no matter how good, the truth is the star of its catalog remains in the mid and economic range. This is where we see the latest terminals such as the Redmi Note 12, Redmi Note 12 Pro and Redmi Note 12 Pro+ appear, and they may soon have a lower-ranking sibling without the ‘Note’ surname added.

This is Redmi 12, a The economical range terminal that Xiaomi itself accidentally revealed. Or at least we can sense this when we see the brand appear on the website in Portugal for a few minutes and then get deleted. Luckily, we were able to recover it with the Web Archive.

Redmi 12 is official. Or not. Or maybe just half

Redmi 12 filtered on the Portuguese Xiaomi website

Just because a company doesn’t promote a device through an event or press release doesn’t mean it can’t be official. In fact, sometimes it’s enough for them to show up in their store, and more when they’re lower-level terminals. So we do not know if Xiaomi will make some kind of special presentation, but the appearance of the Redmi 12 with all its specs on an official website gives it these official implications.

As we mentioned earlier, it was deleted after a few minutes. For this reason It cannot be purchased and there is no confirmation that the mobile phone will be as it is.. The fact that the brand has already prepared the web indicates that there should not be any change, but without a word on this, we cannot rule out that there is some data that has really changed (albeit slightly).

Considering the good stuff on this page, the most relevant is this: Starting from 209.99 euros, price which may be similar if it comes to Spain. It is unknown what price the rest of the versions will come in, but with this start, it sits in the middle ground that exists between the entry range and the mid-range, something that is confirmed by the majority of its specs. .

It starts because it’s a mediatek brain, more specifically the Helio G88. This is an octa-core 4G chip that includes two Cortex A76 clocked at 2GHz and we’ve seen in terminals like the Redmi 10 Prime 2022 or more recently the Realme C55. Accompanies the configurations 4 and 8GB of RAM. Two storage options are also specified for storage. 128 and 256GB. Of course, it is not clear whether there will be compatibility with MicroSD cards.

In terms of battery, it doesn’t particularly stand out when betting on an already very standardized capacity. 5,000mAh. Add maximum charging power 18W although it’s not bad and needs to be proven, perhaps it seems a bit inadequate for such a capacity.

An 8-megapixel front camera for photography and Main up to 50 megapixels. While the other two cameras of 8 and 2 megapixels, respectively, are specified, the lens type is not mentioned. We can sense that these correspond to a depth sensor and macro lens, although we insist that they are not specified on the web.

Now that’s all that’s left It was made official by Xiaomi.. We think there’s probably not much left, but there’s no information about it, so it could be in the next few hours or days.

Technical page of Xiaomi Redmi 12 (filtered)

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