Redmi’s small phone was discontinued two years ago, and now it’s allegedly getting ready again. It should have 6,3 inches like Xiaomi 17

On Saturday, Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station wrote on Weibo that one of the unnamed sub-brands of an unnamed manufacturer is working on a small phone with a 6.3-inch display. He immediately asked his followers whether they like a size like that. The brand was not named, but the Chinese site IT之家, based on his prior leaks, estimates that it will be Redmi. Nothing has been officially confirmed, so take everything below as an early leak.

The post says nothing about the name, chip, battery, or the presentation date. Yet Redmi already prepared a small phone once—and then canceled it. Moreover, the new model’s diagonal would be aimed almost exactly where today’s flagship Xiaomi 17 sits.

What the leaker wrote and what the websites added to it

According to the post, the phone should get a display with 1.5K resolution and LTPO technology, which reduces the refresh rate to a very low value when showing static images and thus saves battery. The panel is said to be encapsulated with LIPO tech, which will make the bezels around the display equally thin on all four sides. By the afternoon, the post had received over 600 comments and more than 2,000 reactions.

The site XimiTime also attributed the new Redmi a resolution of 2,656 × 1,220 pixels, but that number isn’t in the original post. IT之家 used those figures to describe Xiaomi 17’s display, which the new device was only compared against, and when re-reporting, the detail was shifted over to Redmi. The same resolution is also said for the POCO X8s with a 6.35-inch display, so with a 1.5K panel at that size, we wouldn’t be surprised. For now, though, it’s just an estimate.

Xiaomi 17 is similar to the new device also in display technology. It also has 6.3 inches and LTPO with a frequency range from 1 to 120 Hz, brightness up to 3,500 nits, and thanks to LIPO, the bezels are only 1.18 mm thick. If the leak is confirmed, Redmi would get a display very similar to the one from the flagship lineup.

Redmi once prepared a small phone and then canceled it

That same leaker talked about a 6.3-inch Redmi back in October 2024. According to the portal Canaltech, the phone was supposed to get a battery of around 6,000 mAh, but without a telephoto lens and without wireless charging. A week later, Digital Chat Station wrote on the site The Tech Outlook that the evaluation had ended and Redmi’s small phone would not be prepared for now.

This time, he doesn’t write about an evaluation, but about a phone in development. Still, that doesn’t mean a certain premiere, because a project at such a stage can be stopped by the manufacturer. The same source, according to IT之家, recently also mentioned four 7-inch phones with large batteries, including a flagship model with a 2-nanometer chip, which should arrive in the first half of next year. That means Redmi would be selling both small and very large phones at the same time.

There are still few Android small phones

Most of the mid-range today starts at 6.7 inches, and Redmi itself tends to make its phones bigger—for instance, even the base Redmi K100 has a 6.83-inch display. A 6.3-inch diagonal is mainly found in flagship lines, for example in Xiaomi 17 or Samsung Galaxy S26 models. The similarly sized Google Pixel 10a costs, after an October price increase, 649 euros.

From Xiaomi’s lineup today, the closest is POCO X8s, which has a 6.35-inch display and a body width of only 71.8 mm. However, it belongs to the mid-range with the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4, so small Redmi phones with a flagship-style display could fill the gap between it and the more expensive Xiaomi 17. Exactly where it will land will be shown only by the chip and the battery.

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