Redmi Note 17 Pro teardown video shows off the phone’s internals | Infinium-tech

Redmi yesterday unveiled the Note 17 Pro alongside the Note 17 for the Chinese market. Now, courtesy of Chinese channel WekiHome, the full disassembly video of the Note 17 Pro is already available. It’s obviously in Chinese, but YouTube’s built-in closed captions are very good at translating what the presenter is saying in our experience, so make sure you have them turned on.

As with many smartphones, to get inside the Redmi Note 17 Pro you first have to remove the back cover, which here is made of plastic. There is a lot of foam inside the back cover to protect it from water and dust.

The NFC coil is on the right side of the camera, and heat dissipation is taken care of by a film extending from the battery to the motherboard. The main camera uses Samsung’s ISOCELL JN5 1/2.76″ type sensor, while the selfie snapper uses the OmniVision OV08F 1/4″ type sensor.

The device uses LPDDR4X RAM and Samsung-made UFS 4.0 storage, but before you get too excited, note that due to limitations in the Snapdragon 6s Gen 4 chipset, the ROM is actually only running at maximum UFS 3.1 speeds. There is a light sensor, but the proximity sensor is ultrasonic. The USB port is USB 2.0 and there are only two microphones to cut costs.

The 9,000 mAh battery has 13% silicon content and is made by Sunvoda. The phone comes with a 67W charger and testing shows a maximum power draw of 54.7W. It takes 84 minutes to charge from 1% to 100%. The maximum brightness in manual mode was measured at 863 nits, while in sunlight mode it reached 968 nits. High brightness mode went up to 1,100 nits, and peak brightness at 10% cover reached over 3,500 nits, while at 1% it reached over 3,800 nits.

Below the screen is a 4,700 square millimeter stainless steel vapor chamber. The outer frame of the device is plastic, while its inner frame is made of HZH5.9 alloy, which has 30% better stiffness than the previous generation.