Xiaomi Redmi 8 specs and price appear on China Telecom ahead of official reveal

01 October 2019
The phone offers several upgrades over the Redmi 8A - things like a depth sensor and fingerprint reader on the back.

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  • 05 Oct 2019

Krika, 02 Oct 2019Exactly. Chinese vendors just stick with the same formula, ... morethey are following samsung's strategy of flooding the market with ranges upon ranges of devices in hope to stimulate sales.

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    • Su8
    • 02 Oct 2019

    Euhm.. SD425 isn't that an error.

    The redmi 7 has a SDM632 which is much better than the SDM439.

    From the specs alone IMHO the redmi 8a isn't a sufficient upgrade over the 7 and it's even worse compared to this Redmi 8. While between the redmi 7 and 7a is a significant difference (screen size, SoC, camera's)

    The redmi 8 has a worse main camera (coupled with that useless 2mp portrait crap) but a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. Everything else is the same as the 7a (screen size, battery, SoC, comms etc...). Fuck this, that CA73 from the Redmi 7 is much better than these milked-to-bones ridiculous A53's (yet again!!!!).

    For god's sake these goddamn Cortex-ARM53's have been around since late 2012! Can we please STOP using them! Besides despite all these smartphones having (most of) the same internals with regards to SoC you, dumbass manufacturers, don't provide updates beyond 1 year for these "low end" devices anyway! So use the newer 360 silver or 460 silver kryo's instead of this! PLEASE!

    Oh why do I even bother? I might as wel keep using my old Honor 8 which is still significantly faster than any of these!

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      • 02 Oct 2019

      Anonymous, 02 Oct 2019Price (now) is 1290 euros, for month it will be under 100 e... more*120*

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        • 02 Oct 2019

        falcon, 01 Oct 2019The mentioned price may be for 2 pcs...Price (now) is 1290 euros, for month it will be under 100 euros for 3/32.. And for that price who know maybe it will be ok

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          • 02 Oct 2019

          Anonymous, 01 Oct 2019any snapdragon starts with a 4 should not be touched.439 is ok, even today, for basic tasks (or in phones around 100 euros), 439 is similar to 450 or old but gold 625 in cpu and gpu, just made on 12nm

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            • 02 Oct 2019

            Wasper, 02 Oct 2019Sounds more like redmi 8A pro than redmi 8Yes, in India, Global version is Redmi 8

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              • 02 Oct 2019

              Essen, 01 Oct 2019Couldn't they have made this the one under 6-inch phone on ... moreExactly. Chinese vendors just stick with the same formula, and spews out phones with various shitty specs but similar screen sizes. These phones would sell very well in 5.5-5.8' range with a long battery life.

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                • 02 Oct 2019

                Essen, 01 Oct 2019Couldn't they have made this the one under 6-inch phone on ... moreI am too frustrated with all these new phones getting bigger and bigger day by day. Its has become really hard to get hands on compact phones nowadays and all these companies are not listening to the users who still like small or compact size phones. Just hoping if any company changes this ongoing big size phone trend just like they followed the shitty notch creation by Apple.

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                  • 02 Oct 2019

                  Sounds more like redmi 8A pro than redmi 8

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                    • 02 Oct 2019

                    I think it's redmi 8a pro specs not redmi 8's,
                    I really don't think that they use SD439 in redmi even when redmi 7 has SD632.

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                      • 01 Oct 2019

                      AnonD-731363, 01 Oct 2019Would like to know whats makes this phone different from a ... more8A = single rear camera, 2 + 32 , 3 + 32

                      8 = dual cam (wide + depth) , 4 + 64

                      Rest of specs are same.

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                        • 01 Oct 2019

                        tigerbomb1996, 01 Oct 2019better buy redmi note 7 (sd660)Better not buying any.
                        Awful UI, phones with high SAR...
                        Also I do not trust any chinese brand with my data.

                          haha no thanks

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                            • 01 Oct 2019

                            Couldn't they have made this the one under 6-inch phone on their line up? 5.6-5.8 inches? What's the point of releasing a 100 phones every month all of them between 6.2 to 6.5 inches? It's getting annoying to not come across one compact, one-handed phone. Seems like the Galaxy S10e, A20e and A40 are the only ones that come close. The last two are only in limited markets in limited numbers.

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                              • 01 Oct 2019

                              This phone is Redmi 8A Pro not the Redmi 8

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                                • 01 Oct 2019

                                Better to be Snapdragon 660 or 665 or if is Mediatek that must be Helio P60 or 65

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                                  • 01 Oct 2019

                                  Already many SD710's available for less than $200.

                                    Well, as expected
                                    vanilla redmi is well known to have WORST value/price in redmi lineup, A and note usually better

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                                      • 01 Oct 2019

                                      Redmi 8 and redmi 8 pro and redmi note 8 and redmi 8a are diffrent devices

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                                        • 01 Oct 2019

                                        Anonymous, 01 Oct 2019any snapdragon starts with a 4 should not be touched.Hahahahahahhh