The Xiaomi 17 Pro Max has landed with two screens and a ridiculously big battery

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The Xiaomi 17 Pro Max has two screens, a 7,500mAh battery, and a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. (Image credit: Xiaomi)

The Xiaomi 17 series has been unveiled, with the Pro models having two screens
The Xiaomi 17 Pro Max has a massive 7,500mAh battery
All three phones have a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset

Hot on the heels of its mid-range Xiaomi 15T and 15T Pro launch, Xiaomi has just announced its new flagships in the form of the Xiaomi 17 series, and these phones have a lot of eye-catching specs.

The Xiaomi 17 Pro Max is the top model, and the most interesting one, with both this and the Xiaomi 17 Pro having a second display on the back, which looks a bit like a smaller version of the cover screen on the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7.

This second screen can be used to frame selfies taken with the rear cameras, display widgets from apps, and even play games – if paired with an official Game Boy-like case.

In the case of the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max this is a 2.9-inch screen, while the Xiaomi 17 Pro has a 2.7-inch one, and they both have a 120Hz refresh rate.

As for their main displays, the Xiaomi 17 Pro has a 6.3-inch one and the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max has a 6.9-inch one, and both again have a 120Hz refresh rate.

A Game Boy-like case for the Xiaomi 17 Pro series

Massive batteries and top-end chipsets

Another highlight of these phones though is their battery capacities, with the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max having a frankly ridiculous 7,500mAh capacity, and the Xiaomi 17 Pro having a 6,300mAh battery. For comparison, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra has just a 5,000mAh battery and the iPhone 17 Pro Max has a 5,088mAh one (or 4,832mAh outside the US).

Both phones charge at 100W – or 50W if using wireless charging, and both have a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, which is Qualcomm’s brand-new flagship chipset, and should make these handsets more powerful than any currently available Android phones.

They also both have a trio of 50MP cameras on the back, including wide, ultra-wide, and 5x telephoto options, along with a 50MP camera on the front. Plus there’s up to 16GB of RAM and up to 1TB of storage in both phones.

The base Xiaomi 17 is a little less interesting as it doesn’t have a second screen, but you still get a 6.3-inch main display, a 50MP triple-lens camera, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, and a huge 7,000mAh battery.

These phones are so far only launching in China, but we’d expect that one or more of them will land in Europe early next year – though a US release is very unlikely, as Xiaomi doesn’t have much of a presence there.

James is a freelance phones, tablets and wearables writer and sub-editor at TechRadar. He has a love for everything ‘smart’, from watches to lights, and can often be found arguing with AI assistants or drowning in the latest apps. James also contributes to 3G.co.uk, 4G.co.uk and 5G.co.uk and has written for T3, Digital Camera World, Clarity Media and others, with work on the web, in print and on TV.

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