Xiaomi seems that for this 2018 is ready to give a hard time on every price range with its smartphones, starting from the medium range with its Redmi Note 5 and the top devices like the Mi Mix 2S and the future Mi 7 expected for the end of the month. The company does not even save itself with entry level devices like the Redmi S2 of which we will attend the presentation on May 10, but all this does not make Lei Jun's OEM desist propose further news like the alleged smartphone with the code name VALENTINO, which will be based on the processor Snapdragon 638, a somewhat enhanced version of the 636 SD.
The name could be a tribute to the designer or the fact that the device may be an Italian preview, given the recent official news about theopening of the first Mi Store in Milan, scheduled for May 24. But as always in these circumstances it is a benchmark appeared in the Geekbench database to provide us with the first rumors about the device, which equipped with SoC Snapdragon 638 octacore clocked to 1,44 GHz will be accompanied by 6 GB of RAM and OS 8.1 Oreo Android system, totalizes 1485 points in the single core test and 5440 in the multi core test. Values that in itself may not indicate much, but translated into performance mean that the new chipset will be more powerful than the Snapdragon 650 and slightly lower than the 820 SD. The new CPU equipped with Adreno 509, if all was confirmed, will be mounted for the first time on a Xiaomi device which in turn will hold the record of the world's first smartphone with such CPU, a bit like the Redmi Note 5 Pro with the 636 SD.
Xiaomi VAENTINO is the company's new smartphone with Snapdragon 638 CPU
Someone speculates that the codename Valentino refers to the awaited phablet Xiaomi Mi Max 3, but without a doubt the new device will belong to the middle of the market, albeit at the current state of things, the difference in the range between a smartphone and another at home Xiaomi is really thin. Surely soon also the mystery that surrounds the device VALENTINO will be solved and we will not fail to provide you with all the details.
I am waiting for the max3 to retire my op3. But if they do not put at least one s660, I'm disappointed (I was hoping for s670). For now only rumors, we'll see