Poco will reveal the M8 Power in India on August 4, arming a budget phone with an 8,000mAh battery and a 50MP main camera. It goes on sale exclusively through Flipkart, teased so far only in a bold orange finish with a textured rear panel.
The phone is widely expected to be a rebadged Redmi Note 17, which already sells in China with a battery the same size. That lineage fits a broader pattern: budget phones across Xiaomi’s family of brands are racing each other on battery capacity faster than on chips or cameras.
Poco Locks in an August 4 Reveal on Flipkart
Poco confirmed the date through a post on X, saying the M8 Power will break cover in India at 12 pm local time on August 4. The teaser image accompanying the post showed the phone’s orange rear panel, flat side edges and a large square camera module, with 50MP text etched near the lens.
Alongside the date, Poco confirmed a short list of hard specs:
- An 8,000mAh battery, which Poco says is good for up to three days of use between charges
- An AMOLED display paired with a 50MP main rear camera
- Up to 45W wired fast charging
- An orange colorway with a textured rear panel and flat side edges
Poco paired the reveal with a campaign line for the launch.
More Power, More Entertainment, More Binge
The tagline ran across the promotional render Poco posted on X ahead of the event, next to the phone’s orange finish. Everything else, including the chipset, exact display size and price, remains officially unconfirmed until August 4.
How Much of This Is the Redmi Note 17?
Poco has not called the M8 Power a rebadge, but the specs line up too closely to ignore. Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 17 already sells in China with a 7-inch OLED display running at 120Hz, a Snapdragon 4 Gen 4 chipset, an 8,000mAh battery, a 50MP Light Fusion 400 main camera and an 8MP front camera.
The pattern is familiar. Poco’s India lineup routinely starts life as Redmi or Xiaomi hardware wearing new software and marketing names, and the phones tend to surface the same way before launch: references to the M8 Power turned up inside Xiaomi’s HyperOS firmware weeks before Poco said anything in public, the same route through which a separate, still-unnamed vanilla Poco X8 leaked out earlier this year.
What We Know
- An 8,000mAh battery, a 50MP main camera and 45W wired charging, all confirmed by Poco directly
- An orange colorway with a textured rear panel, flat edges and a large camera module
- An August 4 reveal at 12 pm local time, with sales handled exclusively by Flipkart
What’s Unconfirmed
- A Snapdragon 4 Gen 4 chipset and 7-inch OLED display, both expected but not stated by Poco
- An 8MP front camera, carried over from rumors about the Redmi Note 17
- Pricing, which Poco has not discussed in any form
- Whether the 8,000mAh cell uses silicon-carbon chemistry, as some of Poco’s other recent phones do
Three Phones, One Growing Battery Number
Poco’s own back catalogue makes the trend easy to track. The M7 5G, a pure entry-level phone, shipped with a 5,160mAh battery and a Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 chip at a starting price of ₹9,999. Its step-up sibling, the M7 Plus, jumped to a 7,000mAh silicon-carbon battery and a Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 chip at ₹13,999 (about $160) when it launched in India last August, a battery chemistry GSMArena confirmed at the time. The M8 Power now picks up where that left off, adding another 1,000mAh a year later.
| Phone | Battery | Chipset | Starting Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poco M7 5G | 5,160mAh | Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 | ₹9,999 |
| Poco M7 Plus 5G | 7,000mAh (silicon-carbon) | Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 | ₹13,999 |
| Redmi Note 17 (China) | 8,000mAh | Snapdragon 4 Gen 4 | CNY 1,299 (around ₹18,000) |
| Poco M8 Power (India) | 8,000mAh | Snapdragon 4 Gen 4 (expected) | Not yet announced |
Xiaomi’s China listing prices the Redmi Note 17 at that CNY 1,299 base figure, though Poco’s Indian versions of shared hardware typically launch well under Xiaomi’s home market pricing once the phones are localized.
Silicon Carbon Is Doing the Heavy Lifting
The capacity race extends well past Poco’s own lineup. Global average smartphone battery capacity reached 5,291mAh in January 2026, up roughly 400mAh from a year earlier, the steepest annual jump since December 2021.
Silicon-carbon chemistry is doing most of that work. Six of January’s ten largest smartphone batteries used silicon-carbon cells, according to Counterpoint Research, a material that packs roughly 20% more capacity into the same physical space as older lithium-ion designs. Poco’s own X8 Pro Max already carries an 8,500mAh silicon-carbon cell in a body just 8.2mm thick, released in India earlier this year. Whether the M8 Power’s 8,000mAh battery uses that same chemistry is one of the details Poco still has not confirmed.
The Race Reaches Well Beyond Budget Phones
Flagship phones are chasing the same number, just from a lower starting point. Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro Max jumped to a 5,425mAh cell this generation, a large increase by the company’s own recent history, even though it still trails Poco’s cheapest phones by thousands of milliamp-hours.
Chinese flagship makers have moved faster still. OnePlus, Xiaomi, Honor, Oppo and Vivo have all shipped numbered flagship phones with silicon-carbon batteries this year, most landing between 6,000mAh and 7,300mAh, well above the 4,500mAh to 5,000mAh that used to define the top tier. The Redmi Note 17 Pro sold in China goes further still, packing a 9,000mAh battery, a size the standard M8 Power is not expected to match since its specs trace back to the base Note 17 instead.
Redmi Hasn’t Even Confirmed Its Own India Date
Redmi has not confirmed an India date of its own for the Note 17, the phone Poco’s version is expected to mirror. Pricing for the India model is still circulating only as a leak, according to Times Bull’s reporting, raising the odd possibility that Poco’s rebadged version reaches Flipkart before Xiaomi’s own Redmi brand brings the original phone to Indian shelves.
It would not be the first time Xiaomi’s sister brands have overlapped this year. The company recently reshaped its flagship tier too, ditching the Ultra name for a rationed Pro Max lineup in India, and the same layering now plays out at the budget end, where Poco and Redmi effectively sell close variations of the same phone to the same shoppers.
Poco has confirmed the date, the battery, the camera and the retailer. Everything else, including the price that will decide whether this counts as a good deal, arrives August 4.
Frequently Asked Questions
When Will the Poco M8 Power Go on Sale in India?
Poco reveals the phone on August 4 at 12 pm local time, with sales handled exclusively through Flipkart. Poco’s M7 Plus went on sale about a week after its India debut last year, so a similar short gap between the reveal and the first Flipkart sale is possible here too.
How Much Will the Poco M8 Power Cost?
Poco has not announced pricing. Its predecessor, the M7 Plus, launched at ₹13,999 for the base configuration last year, and a 1,000mAh larger battery plus a newer chipset make a similar or slightly higher starting price likely for the M8 Power.
Is the Poco M8 Power a 5G Phone?
Yes. Coverage of the confirmed launch refers to it as the Poco M8 Power 5G, consistent with Poco’s recent M-series phones, which have shipped with 5G radios even at entry-level prices.
What Color Options Does the Poco M8 Power Have?
Only orange has been shown so far, in the teaser image Poco posted ahead of the August 4 event, featuring a textured rear panel and flat side edges. Poco typically adds one or two darker colorways at the actual launch event, though none are confirmed yet.
Does the Poco M8 Power Match the Redmi Note 17 Pro?
No. The Redmi Note 17 Pro, sold in China, carries a larger 9,000mAh battery, a step up the standard M8 Power is not expected to match since its specs are believed to trace back to the base Redmi Note 17 and its 8,000mAh cell instead.
