Xiaomi’s upcoming 17T series is being positioned as one of its most ambitious mid-range pushes yet, with a focus on battery life and camera upgrades ahead of its China launch.
Both the 17T and 17T Pro were already launched globally on May 28 and are currently rolling out across select markets outside China.
Xiaomi has also started teasing the 17T series for China, highlighting its silicon-carbon battery design and claiming a 16% silicon content, the highest the company has used so far.
Globally, the standard model comes with a 6,500mAh battery, while the Pro variant steps up to 7,000mAh. Xiaomi’s teasers for China also reiterate the 7,000mAh figure for the series. The company claims up to 1.88 days of typical use, along with 100W wired charging and 50W wireless charging on the Pro. It also rates the battery to retain 80% capacity after 1,600 charge cycles.
Design-wise, the phones lean into a cleaner flagship-style look with a curved frame, slim bezels, and a flat display. The 17T Pro runs on MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500 chip, built on a 3nm process, with gains in GPU performance and efficiency over the previous generation.
Camera hardware is again co-developed with Leica. The Pro model is said to include a triple setup led by a 50MP main sensor, a 5x periscope telephoto lens, and an ultra-wide shooter. Zoom support goes up to 120x digitally, with Leica color tuning and multiple shooting modes carried over from earlier collaborations.
The series is scheduled to debut in China on June 8. Xiaomi is positioning the 17T line closer to its flagship tier, mainly on the strength of battery life and imaging upgrades.
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(Source: Lu Weibing on Weibo)
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