The Redmi Note 17 bid is going planetary – these phones are somewhat antithetic from the Note 17 models that we saw in China and that volition soon beryllium disposable successful India. Here we volition absorption connected the 2 Pro models, but Xiaomi besides unveiled the Redmi Note 17 5G and 4G. Those volition beryllium covered successful a abstracted post.
Redmi Note 17 Pro and Redmi Note 17 Pro Max
The Redmi Note 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max are the successors to the Redmi Note 15 Pro and 15 Pro+ from precocious past year. Both person 6.83” OLED displays, but this twelvemonth they battalion adjacent bigger batteries with faster charging. Both phones usage Snapdragon 6-series chips. However, the 200MP cameras that person been featured connected the past fewer generations are gone.
The Redmi Note 17 Pro has an 8,340mAh Silicon-Carbon artillery – this is rather the upgrade from the 6,580mAh artillery of the 15 Pro. Xiaomi says that the telephone tin play videos for 28 hours connected a azygous charge. The accrued capableness is paired with a faster 67W HyperCharge strategy (up from 45W), which tin spell up to 50% successful 34 minutes. We volition person artillery beingness and charging results soon, truthful enactment tuned to spot however the artillery upgrades enactment successful existent life. Anyway, the telephone besides does 22.5W reverse charging, truthful that you tin apical up different gadgets and adjacent different phones.
The Pro has a 6.83” OLED show with 1,280 x 2,772px and 120Hz refresh rate. It renders 12-bit colors and tin scope up to 3,500 nits of brightness. It’s protected by Gorilla Glass Victus 2. This is much oregon little the aforesaid show arsenic connected the 15 Pro, but with a tiny bump successful brightness.
The Redmi Note 17 Pro features a 6.83” 12-bit 120Hz OLED display
The telephone is powered by the Snapdragon 6s Gen 4 chipset, which replaces the Dimensity 7400 Ultra of the aged model. It tin beryllium configured with 6GB, 8GB oregon 12GB of RAM (LPDDR4X) and 128GB, 256GB oregon 512GB of storage. Note that this means UFS 3.1 for each but the basal 128GB variant, which uses UFS 2.2.
The Redmi Note 17 Pro Max is the aforesaid size arsenic the Pro – the “Max” present refers to the larger 9,210mAh battery, which has 16% silicon content. The telephone tin play video for 37 hours, crippled for 19 hours oregon grounds video for 13 hours, according to authoritative numbers. It’s a large measurement up from the 6,500mAh artillery of the 15 Pro+.
Speaking of which, the Max has the aforesaid 100W HyperCharge arsenic the 15 Pro+. These higher powerfulness ratings are becoming a necessity with the increasing capacities of Si/C batteries. Xiaomi says that you tin get a day’s worthy of complaint successful 20 minutes. Also, reverse charging is somewhat much almighty astatine 27W.
The Pro Max uses the aforesaid 6.83” OLED show arsenic the Pro. However, it features a newer Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 chipset. This 1 uses a TSMC 4nm node alternatively of a Samsung 4nm node similar the 6s Gen 4. Both chips usage the aforesaid 4x Cortex-A78 + 4x A55 CPU configuration, but the Gen 5 has a tiny timepiece velocity advantage. It besides has a somewhat much almighty GPU, Adreno 812 vs. 710.
Additionally, Xiaomi equipped the 256GB and 512GB variants of the Redmi Note 17 Pro Max with UFS 4.1 chips, which committedness sequential read/write speeds of up to 2,100MB/s. Meanwhile, the 128GB UFS 2.2 variant lone delivers 1,000MB/s. There is an asterisk present that we volition speech astir successful our review. The RAM is either 8GB oregon 12GB of LPDDR4X.
The Pro Max show is besides guarded by Gorilla Glass Victus 2. The 2 phones are rated IP66 (water jets) and IP68 (submersion). There’s nary IP69K standing this clip around, though. Xiaomi is claiming superior submersion resistance, saying that the phones tin walk 72 hours nether 3m of water, compared to 24 hours nether 2m of h2o for the 15 Pro models. Both phones measurement astir the aforesaid – 223g for the Pro and 225g for the Pro Max – contempt the antithetic artillery capacities. They person the aforesaid thickness too, 8.6mm.
The Redmi Note 17 Pro Max weighs astir the aforesaid arsenic the Pro contempt its larger battery
Both phones person stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos. However, the Max is louder with a 400% measurement boost, compared to 300% for the regular Pro. No, determination is nary 3.5mm headphone jack, but determination is Bluetooth 6.0 connected the Pro Max and 5.1 connected the Pro.
The Pro Max has amended connectivity wide with Wi-Fi 6 (vs. Wi-Fi 5 connected the Pro). Both phones enactment NFC and dual-SIM connectivity with an eSIM option.
Another spot wherever the Pro Max has the precocious manus is successful the camera department. Again, the 200MP sensors and their zooming capabilities are gone, which is simply a shame. Instead, some 17 Pro models get 50MP main cameras with OIS and 8MP ultra-wide cameras.
The Pro Max’s vantage lies successful the bigger sensor – it has 0.8µm pixels compared to 0.6µm pixels connected the Pro – and the brighter f/1.5 aperture (vs. f/1.8). It besides has a amended 32MP selfie camera (f/2.2 lens, 4K video) compared to a 16MP (f/2.4) selfie connected the Pro.
Both phones motorboat with Xiaomi’s HyperOS 3 and volition person 6 years of information updates.
We’ll person the Redmi Note 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max pricing and motorboat details shortly.
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