Poco X8 leak points to a 9,000mAh battery

Poco may not have shelved the standard X8 after all. Leaker Kacper Skrzypek says he found references to the phone in HyperOS code, even though many had assumed the base model was canceled after the launch of the Poco X8 Pro and X8 Pro Max.

The headline detail is the battery. If the Poco X8 is indeed a rebadged Redmi Note 17 Pro, one version could ship with a 9,000mAh cell. According to the leak, the phone would also feature a 50MP main camera and a 2MP secondary sensor, matching the Chinese Redmi Note 17 Pro.

That would fit Poco’s long-running strategy of rebranding Redmi devices while tweaking a few details such as the camera setup, battery size, and target markets. If this leak is accurate, India could get a 9,000mAh Poco X8 based on the Chinese Redmi model, while the global version may use a smaller 8,340mAh battery.

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Even that lower figure would still be unusually large for the midrange segment. Many gaming phones in recent years have shipped with 6,000mAh to 7,000mAh batteries, suggesting the X8 would be positioned around endurance rather than photography.

Most of the remaining specs are also expected to carry over from the Redmi Note 17 Pro, including:

• a 6.83-inch AMOLED display
• 1.5K resolution
• 120Hz refresh rate
• Snapdragon 6s Gen 4
• 67W charging
• 22.5W reverse charging
• an 8MP front camera

The camera setup is where things get a little odd. Skrzypek says the global Redmi Note 17 Pro 5G could use an 8MP ultrawide instead of the 2MP secondary sensor, which would make the Poco version slightly less capable than its Redmi counterpart.

The leak surfaced shortly after reports about the Poco M8 Power, which is also said to be a renamed Redmi Note 17 for markets outside China. That would be familiar territory for Xiaomi, which routinely ships near-identical phones under the Redmi and Poco brands, then adjusts the battery, cameras, and naming by region.

There is still no launch date for the Poco X8. Whether the “canceled” model really returns should become clearer after the global debut of the Redmi Note 17 Pro, which is expected in the coming days.