A mystery brand could soon launch a 9,000mAh battery phone

A brand has just finalised a phone with a 9,000mAh single-cell silicon battery, according to tipster Digital Chat Station. It’s also set to support 100W fast charging.

And if that isn’t enough, the same leak mentions a 10,000mAh prototype is already being tested in the lab. This signals a huge leap from the recent wave of phones with 7,000mAh cells.

This thing could end battery anxiety forever

DCS kept the brand’s name secret, but Chinese outlet MyDrivers believes it is Redmi. They are pointing the finger directly at the upcoming Redmi Turbo 5 series.

But this is also where the story gets messy. A different report, also citing DCS from just last week, claimed the Turbo 5 would “only” have a 7,500mAh battery. That’s still huge, but it is not 9,000mAh.

Either way, the massive capacity is made possible by new silicon carbon battery technology, which crams more power into the same space without making the phone a literal brick.

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The current thinking is that the 7,500mAh battery might be for the standard Turbo 5. The 9,000mAh pack could be reserved for a Turbo 5 Pro variant or a completely different Redmi phone we do not even know about yet.

Of course, a large battery means the phone can handle a powerful chipset, too. The standard Redmi Turbo 5 is rumoured to be the debut device for MediaTek’s new Dimensity 8500 chipset.

This 4nm chip is expected to feature an Arm Cortex-A725 CPU running at 3.4GHz. If you need more, the Turbo 5 Pro is tipped to carry either the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 or the new Dimensity 9500e.

The Redmi Turbo 5 series is expected to drop sometime between December and January. An Indian launch should follow not long after.