Poco F9 Pro and F9 Ultra launch today with smaller batteries than the Redmi phones they are built from
Poco has launched the F9 Pro and F9 Ultra smartphones, which are global variants of Xiaomi's Redmi K100 series but feature significantly smaller battery capacities. The devices utilize high-end Snapdragon processors, yet the reduction in battery size has drawn criticism compared to their Chinese counterparts.
Why it matters
This highlights the discrepancies in hardware specifications between regional product releases and the ongoing debate over battery efficiency in flagship smartphones.
Update: The POCO F9 Ultra is official.
Poco will later today unveil the F9 Pro and the F9 Ultra. The online event that starts at 20:00 Beijing time, which is 3pm in Nairobi, 1pm in London, 2pm in Central Europe and 5:30pm in India. Xiaomi is streaming it from its own launch page on mi.com.
Poco is a Xiaomi sub-brand. Most Poco phones are Redmi models sold outside China under a different name, and these two follow that pattern. The F9 Pro is the Redmi K100 Pro and the F9 Ultra is the Redmi K100 Pro Max. Xiaomi launched both in China on 11 August. We went through everything Poco had confirmed about the two phones last week.
The battery gap
The Redmi K100 Pro has an 8,580mAh silicon-carbon battery. The Redmi K100 Pro Max has 9,070mAh. Both charge at 100W wired, 50W wireless and 27W reverse wired.
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