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Xiaomi’s new Redmi phone lasts for three days on a single charge
The 9,210m Ah silicon-carbon battery fits into a phone that’s thinner and lighter than an i Phone 17 Pro Max.
The 9,210m Ah silicon-carbon battery fits into a phone that’s thinner and lighter than an i Phone 17 Pro Max.
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The Note 17 Pro Max also has a photochromic design, which is revealed by sunlight.
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The 9,210m Ah dual-cell battery in the new Redmi Note 17 Pro Max is the biggest that Xiaomi has fit in any phone it’s sold in Europe — and remarkably, in some other markets the phone comes with an even larger 10,000m Ah single-cell design.
As you can probably guess, this is a silicon-carbon battery either way, one with a high 16 percent silicon content, meaning it’s more energy-dense than most. It’s allowed Xiaomi to fit this huge battery into a phone that’s basically the same size as an i Phone 17 Pro Max, but 8g lighter and fractionally thinner too.
Xiaomi says the Redmi Note 17 Pro Max should give you “worry-free use” for up to three days, or up to 37 hours of continuous video playback. I haven’t been able to put the phone’s battery to the test just yet, but based on the battery life I’ve seen on other recent Android phones, I believe it.
Silicon-carbon cells come with some longevity worries, but the company says this battery should retain 80 percent of its capacity over 1600 charging cycles, which it estimates to be around six years of use. The 100W wired charging should take just over an hour to top the phone up to full, or 20 minutes to get about a day’s worth of power.
The camera specs are basic, easily the least impressive part of the phone.
It ships running Android 16, with a “6-year like-new software experience,” though no confirmed number of Android version updates.
Elsewhere, the specs are a mixed bag: a basic Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 chipset, up to 12GB of RAM and 256GB storage, a 6.83-inch OLED display protected by Gorilla Glass Victus 2, and an IP69K rating. As with many Redmi phones, the cameras are the main compromise: a 50-megapixel main with a relatively small sensor, plus an 8-megapixel ultrawide and 32-megapixel selfie camera.
The Note 17 Pro Max is going on sale in Europe, Australia, Latin America, and other global markets, though not the US, at the local equivalent of
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