Weekly poll results: the Redmi Note 17 Pro and Note 17 Pro Max feel like a step back

While they were not universally loved, the Redmi Note 15 series from Xiaomi got apositive responsein a poll a year ago. The Pro+ model was clearly the fan favorite, but the Pro did well for itself too.Last weekwe polled your opinion on their successors – and the results aren’t nearly as good. To summarize the results, theRedmi Note 17 Pro Maxis overpriced. The regular 17 Pro is also overpriced – and people would rather have the Pro Max, anyway.

The Pro has an even more boring chipset (Snapdragon 6s Gen 4). Either way, both phones are limited to UFS 3.1 transfer speeds – unless you get a cheap 128GB model, at which point you are looking at UFS 2.2. The 17 Pro has it worse – the base 256GB model has only 6GB of RAM. 6GB of RAM on a €400 / £360 phone in 2026? “No, thanks,” said many voters. The 512GB version does have 8GB of RAM, but it’s a €50 / £40 upgrade.

Shoppers in India at least get a 12GB option for the Pro Max. Except there you can’t have a 512GB phone – it’s either ₹50,000 for an 8/256GB unit or ₹56,000 for a 12/256GB unit. As for the Redmi Note 17 Pro, all Indian units come with 8GB of RAM at the expense of storage – you can pick 128GB for ₹37,000 or 256GB for ₹40,000. There’s no 512GB option for this one either. We get it, memory is ridiculously expensive these days – but people don’t like going backwards. And save for the larger batteries, the Redmi Note 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max feel like a step (or two) backwards from the 15 Pro and 15 Pro+.