Teardown experts have already got their hands on the Xiaomi Redmi Note 17 Pro just a day after launch in China. A video was made with all its internals exposed. The whole disassembly can now be seen on WekiHome’s YouTube channel. The narrator spoke Chinese. But the English captions helped with the translation.
The teardown was pretty basic. It’s only a matter of peeling off the backplate. And the rest boils down to unscrewing and disassembling all the components like LEGO pieces. But the narrator gave us a tour of every nook and cranny of the Redmi Note 17 Pro’s internal circuitry.
An expanding foam adhesive is used to glue the backplate to the frame. That’s exactly what keeps the water out and provides the Xiaomi new Note model with an IP69K rating. The video showed where each component is placed in the phone, which was the whole point of this showcase.
There’s an NFC coil next to the camera. A sheet of heat-absorbent metal spreads over the whole motherboard and the battery. The attention is drawn to the motherboard when you reach a certain point in the video. We see separate modules for SoC and RAM/Storage.
The storage module is inscribed as UFS 4.0. But sadly, this newcomer has to kneecap that speed to UFS 3.1 because its Snapdragon 6S Gen4 SoC can’t handle anything above that. The light sensor is actually separate from the proximity sensor. It’s ultrasonic.
It also has dual mics. The USB will only allow Type-C 2.0 data speeds. That’s definitely where they save the manufacturing costs. Sunwoda is the company that designed Note 17 Pro’s Si/C battery. The total capacity of its cell is 9000mAh. And the actual Si/C content is 13%. 67W charging is supported on the Pro, by the way.
The screen’s manual brightness could only scale up to 863 nits. But the sunlight mode drove it to 968 nits. Only 1% of the screen area actually hit 3800 nits peak brightness at a time in short bursts. And deeper teardown has exposed a 4,700 mm2 stainless steel vapor chamber that’s right under the screen.
