While they were not universally loved, the Redmi Note 15 bid from Xiaomi got a positive response successful a canvass a twelvemonth ago. The Pro+ exemplary was intelligibly the instrumentality favorite, but the Pro did good for itself too. Last week we polled your sentiment connected their successors – and the results aren’t astir arsenic good.
To summarize the results, the Redmi Note 17 Pro Max is overpriced. The regular 17 Pro is besides overpriced – and radical would alternatively person the Pro Max, anyway.
Sticking to the Redmi Note 17 Pro Max for now, it recovered immoderate fans, but astir would-be buyers are enactment disconnected by the price. The terms hike from the Note 15 procreation surely pushed immoderate radical away. We’ll beryllium keeping an oculus connected the caller models successful our play deals posts.
Until discounts hit, however, astir radical looking for a mid-range telephone are looking elsewhere. The bigger artillery (9,210mAh successful Europe and 10,000mAh successful India) is cool, but it’s not capable to offset the nonaccomplishment of the 200MP camera. The boring prime of chipset didn’t assistance either – a Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 successful a €600 / £430 phone, really? If you’re not getting a 200MP camera, wherefore not get a Poco phone?
The Redmi Note 17 Pro fared adjacent worse – a terms chopped volition assistance its popularity, but if the Pro Max gets a akin discount, past the 17 Pro volition conflict to get into the spotlight again.
The Pro has an adjacent much boring chipset (Snapdragon 6s Gen 4). Either way, some phones are constricted to UFS 3.1 transportation speeds – unless you get a inexpensive 128GB model, astatine which constituent you are looking astatine UFS 2.2.
Another memory-related ailment that we saw successful the comments was astir the RAM. In Europe, the Pro Max offers a prime betwixt 256GB oregon 512GB storage, but RAM is fixed astatine 8GB. In Germany, the 512GB exemplary is simply a escaped upgrade close present (but it inactive costs €600), portion successful the UK, the 8/256GB is £430 and the 8/512GB 1 is £480.
The 17 Pro has it worse – the basal 256GB exemplary has lone 6GB of RAM. 6GB of RAM connected a €400 / £360 telephone successful 2026? “No, thanks,” said galore voters. The 512GB mentation does person 8GB of RAM, but it’s a €50 / £40 upgrade.
Shoppers successful India astatine slightest get a 12GB enactment for the Pro Max. Except determination you can’t person a 512GB telephone – it’s either ₹50,000 for an 8/256GB portion oregon ₹56,000 for a 12/256GB unit. As for the Redmi Note 17 Pro, each Indian units travel with 8GB of RAM astatine the disbursal of retention – you tin prime 128GB for ₹37,000 oregon 256GB for ₹40,000. There’s nary 512GB enactment for this 1 either.
We get it, representation is ridiculously costly these days – but radical don’t similar going backwards. And prevention for the larger batteries, the Redmi Note 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max consciousness similar a measurement (or two) backwards from the 15 Pro and 15 Pro+.
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