The first-ever flagship under the Redmi brand, the Redmi K20 Pro, has finally arrived in India a good couple of months after its China launch. It’s a true flagship in every sense, and could also be seen as the much-anticipated Poco F1 successor which we’ve all been waiting for. You’re getting a taller AMOLED screen, a pop-up camera on the front, and a triple camera on the rear, but there are certain Poco F1 features that you will find to be missing on the Redmi K20 Pro. So, let’s check them out right here:
1. IR Face Unlock
Starting off, we all know that Poco F1 featured a massive notch up-top and it housed a variety of sensors necessary for enabling IR Face Unlock. Ya, the Poco F1 came with an infrared light sensor and infrared camera in tow to offer you a more secure and a faster biometric unlocking experience like none other. Face Unlock on Poco F1 worked even in low-light and dark conditions, making it super useful and handy.
One of the more attractive features on the mighty Poco F1 was also the stereo sound experience offered by the company. It included a standard bottom-firing speaker and utilized the earpiece up-top as the secondary speaker to achieve the same. Though the stereo experience on the Poco F1 wasn’t really worth it, the same is now missing on the Redmi K20 Pro.
Yeah, you only get a single bottom-firing speaker on the Redmi K20 Pro and it’s said to have a louder sound output, thanks to the Smart PA audio technology, as well as 0.9cc large sound chamber baked into the device. This isn’t quite a massive downgrade but I believe the experience will be slightly less immersive on the Redmi K20 Pro.
If you’ve ever encountered a Poco F1 user (or fanatic) compare the same with another device, then they would have obviously touted the liquid cooling vapor chamber baked inside for heat dissipation. It was a slim vapor chamber but there was one onboard for improved gaming performance on the Poco F1.
Finally, from the perspective of a user, the biggest downgrade on the Redmi K20 Pro is going to be the lack of a microSD card slot. While it’s true that Xiaomi didn’t launch the 6GB+64GB variant in India and offers its flagship series with at least 128GB storage, I believe Redmi K20 Pro still should have offered support for microSD storage expansion.
