New Delhi: In some recent reports, it has been reported that an Android brand is skipping an entire generation just to rival the newly introduced iPhone 17 lineup. This Android brand is none other than Xiaomi smartphone, they have recently decided that they are going to unveils the flagship smartphone series will introduced this month, or in upcoming months, but there’s one thing that many users don’t know, that is they are going to skip their Xiaomi 16 series, and they are directly going to jump on Xiaomi 17 series, just to beat the Apple’s latest iPhone 17 series. If you know this skipping series thing, we have noticed somewhere else also, yes, I’m talking about the OnePlus and iQOO, they have officially stopped working on their 14 series, and they have started working on their 15 series. They have skipped the 14 series, because in Chinese culture, 4 is known as an unlucky number for the company.
Xiaomi’s president, Lu Weibing, has announced on Weibo that the company is going to skip the whole generation of flagship phones to better compete with the iPhone 17 series. Instead, the company will launch the Xiaomi 17 series in the next few weeks, positioning it as a direct competitor to Apple’s latest iPhones. According to the President, the Xiaomi 17 lineup marks the most important milestone yet in the company’s five-year push into the premium smartphone market. He also stated that since the latest series represents such a major generational leap, it didn’t make sense to call it the 6 series. The president also admitted that the decision to skip a generation was made to place its latest flagships alongside the iPhone 17 series.
In this latest Xiaomi 17 series, users are going to get Xiaomi 17, Xiaomi 17 Pro, and Xiaomi 17 Pro Max, which are pretty similar to the iPhone 17 series, and it will also be the first smartphones which are going to be powered by Qualcomm’s newly announced Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor. Weibing also pointed out that Xiaomi has spent the last five years refining its premium strategy, with heavy investments in R&D, which is also doubled in the next five years. He also added that the 17 Pro Max will be Xiaomi’s most powerful flagship yet. In short, Xiaomi’s president has directly given a competition and statement that the Xiaomi 17 series will be the most powerful series compared to the iPhone 17 series.
