The new Xiaomi 17 series has a lot of technology on show, especially as it is the first phone to sport Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor. But what’s caught the eye is another sky-high performance metric — 100W charging.

Ah, I hear you exclaim, 100W charging in a phone is hardly news — proprietary charging standards from China hit that benchmark years ago. But Xiaomi is doing something different this year. It supports this lickety-split power level over the universal USB Power Delivery PPS protocol. That’s the very same protocol used by the far slower Google and Samsung, amongst others, and it’s not just reserved for the Ultra model either.

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