Here’s the thing, K110 was apparently on the table at some point. Hu shot it down, saying it “feels a bit odd.” Fair enough, I guess, though I’d argue plenty of naming decisions in this industry feel odd and companies ship them anyway.
K110 feels a bit odd.” — REDMI Product Manager Hu Xinxin, on why the brand’s next flagship almost certainly won’t carry that name.
None of this matters much on its own — it’s a name, not a chipset. But it’s a decent little signal about how these companies think about their own product lines. You spend two or three generations building a number into a brand (the K series has been around for years now), and then the moment it crosses a threshold, the whole thing resets. Makes you wonder how much of this is genuine strategy versus just what looked cleanest in a slide deck.
Add a dedicated antenna, a beefed-up touch controller, and Bose-tuned audio for things like footsteps and gunfire, and it’s clear REDMI wants this to read as a gaming phone first, flagship second.
So yeah, K200 is coming eventually. But K100 hasn’t even had its moment yet. One thing at a time.
