This Pro Max handset carries a 9,070mAh battery and a display that refreshes 185 times per second

Whatever Apple does to the iPhone, other manufacturers follow for their phones. No sooner did Apple say that it was removing the 3.5mm headphone jack for the iPhone 7 than other companies followed suit. These included Google with the Pixel 2 series, the HTC U Ultra, the Xiaomi Mi 6, and after it originally made fun of Apple for removing the headphone jack on the iPhone 7, Samsung subsequently removed the headphone jack with the Galaxy Note 10 series.

Whenever Apple makes a change to the iPhone, other phone manufacturers follow suit

Apple supposedly decided to remove the port in order to create more internal space for the phone so Apple could add optical image stabilization (OIS) to the base iPhone 7 model. By removing the headphone jack, Apple discovered it was easier to install the Taptic engine, the iPhone's haptic engine. It also allowed Apple to put a larger capacity battery in the phone.

Apple eliminated the earphone jack, and took the charger and earpods out of the box

In October 2020, Apple removed the power adapter and EarPods from boxes containing new iPhone models starting with the iPhone 12 line. It was reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo who was the first to say that Apple was going to do this. This allowed Apple to reduce the size of the box, allowing 70% more devices to fit on a shipping pallet.

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In 2022, two years after Apple started shipping the iPhone 12 series (the first to support 5G, by the way) without EarPods and a power adapter, the Daily Mail computed that Apple saved £5 billion ($6.5 billion) by taking the charger and EarPods out of the box. And of course, other phone manufacturers copied Apple right away and took the chargers out of their phone boxes.

Even the Pro Max name was used by other phone makers for their high-end models, copying Apple

When Apple introduced the iPhone 11 line in 2019, it introduced the top-of-the-line Pro Max model. Sure enough, other phone manufacturers now use the Pro Max name for high-end models including Huawei, Oppo, and Xiaomi.

Xiaomi sub-brand Redmi has an upcoming phone that is called the Redmi K100 Pro Max. It is expected to be unveiled in China on August 11, and you should check out these specs. The phone will sport a huge 9,070mAh battery but that's only half the story because the battery will charge wired at 100W and wirelessly at 50W!

Tomorrow, the Redmi K100 Pro Max will be unveiled in China. | Image by Android Headlines

The 6.9-inch OLED panel refreshes 185 times per second

The phone offers 27W wired reverse charging and 22.5W wireless reverse charging for secondary devices. The display features a 6.9-inch OLED panel with a 185Hz refresh rate and 4,500 nits of peak brightness.

The rear camera array includes a 200MP main camera, a periscope telephoto lens with 5x optical zoom, and a 50MP ultra-wide camera. Under the hood is the 3nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, the chip that all of the cool guys will be sporting this year. A D2 graphics co-processor will allow games to run at a higher frame rate with lower latency and a reduced amount of jitter.

Throw in a Bose-tuned speaker system and you have a powerful, packed phone that would make any phone nerd in the US turn green with jealousy. Pricing will be released on Tuesday when the phone is officially unveiled, and the phone's introduction simply confirms that smartphone innovations aren't coming out of Cupertino or Mountain View. They are coming out of China.

This Pro Max phone will not be available from US carriers and retail stores in the US. You could try to have it imported into the States, but such models may not support key US network bands and will not have a US warranty.

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