Xiaomi's Newest Phone Sports a Rear Display and Skips a Number to Take Aim at iPhone 17

Sometimes, you person to skip a fig successful the quest for parity — and the Xiaomi 17 bid of phones does precisely that portion bringing a fewer intriguing features to consumers successful the process.

Following the caller announcement of the iPhone 17, Xiaomi has opted to skip the fig 16 altogether successful an effort to support generational parity with its Xiaomi 17 lineup. But the Chinese smartphone manufacturer's caller devices are doing much than simply bucking naming conventions.

The Xiaomi 17 household consists of 3 powerhouse flagships that diagnostic the almighty Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, beefy artillery capableness (more connected that below), and exceedingly constrictive bezels. But it's the Xiaomi 17 Pro and Pro Max that truly basal retired successful a oversea of smartphones that often blur together, mostly acknowledgment to a smaller surface connected the backmost of the instrumentality that the institution calls the Dynamic Back Display.

The Xiaomi 17 Pro and Pro Max aren't the archetypal smartphones to follow a rear display, but they look to genuinely dial successful the unsocial advantages this diagnostic tin offer. The institution promises the Dynamic Back Display tin beryllium utilized for "customizable ticker faces, AI wallpapers, virtual pets, dynamic accusation notifications, sticky notes, and truthful overmuch more." It tin adjacent beryllium utilized to preview selfies oregon beryllium turned into a retro gaming handheld utilizing the Retro Handheld Console Case (sold separately).

The Xiaomi 17 Pro and Pro Max bid besides present the industry's archetypal L-shaped battery, which maximizes the usage of interior abstraction to supply immoderate awesome capacity. The basal exemplary comes packing a 7,000mAh battery, portion the Pro and Pro Max versions battalion 6,300mAh and 7,500mAh batteries, respectively. Sweetening the woody further, the Pro models adjacent let for up to 100W wired charging and 50W wireless charging.

While it's yet to beryllium seen if Xiaomi 17 series' originative plan and naming switcheroo volition assistance it marque further gains connected Apple's iPhone household of smartphones, it's looking to connection rather a dainty for smartphone enthusiasts with an oculus for quirky and absorbing caller tech.

Unfortunately, the Xiaomi 17 lineup is lone disposable successful Chinese markets for now, though a planetary mentation of the telephone is apt to onshore sometime aboriginal adjacent year.