Redmi M100 Launches With Massive 7,900mAh Battery

Xiaomi just launched the Redmi M100 in China, quietly, no big event, and it’s the first phone in a brand new Redmi M series. The pitch is simple: forget flagship cameras or top-tier performance, this thing is built around one number, a 7,900mAh battery, which is genuinely huge for a budget phone.

Battery and Charging

That battery pairs with 45W wired charging and 22.5W reverse wired charging, so you can actually use the M100 to top off another device in a pinch. For context, most phones in this price range are still sitting somewhere around 5,000mAh, so Xiaomi’s pushing well past what buyers usually expect at this tier.

Chipset and Performance

Powering it is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 4 Gen 5, a 4nm chip with 5G support, paired with LPDDR4X RAM and UFS 2.2 storage. Configurations run from 6GB/256GB up to 8GB/256GB, all solidly budget-tier hardware rather than anything trying to compete on raw speed.

Display

The display is a 6.9-inch LCD panel running at 120Hz with up to 240Hz touch sampling, brightness reaching 825 nits at peak. Here’s the catch, though: resolution is only 720×1600, which is a clear compromise Xiaomi made to hit this price point. You get a smooth, responsive screen, just not a sharp one.

Cameras

Cameras are basic and Xiaomi isn’t pretending otherwise. A 13MP main shooter on the back, 5MP up front, both with the usual portrait and night mode software tricks, but nothing here suggests camera performance was a priority.

Senior Care Mode

One feature stands out from the usual budget-phone playbook: Senior Care Mode. It bumps up icon and font sizes, lets media volume go up to 300%, and blocks unwanted calls, clearly aimed at older users rather than the typical spec-chasing crowd this segment usually targets. That’s a genuinely different audience signal than most budget Android phones send.

Design and Build

Build-wise, the M100 is chunky by necessity, 232 grams and 8.8mm thick, which makes sense once you remember it’s hauling a battery nearly 60% bigger than average. It’s rated IP64 for dust and splash resistance, keeps a side-mounted fingerprint sensor, and, notably, still has a 3.5mm headphone jack, something plenty of pricier phones dropped years ago.

Pricing and Availability

Pricing in China starts at CNY 1,799 for the base 8GB/128GB model, roughly $267, scaling up to CNY 2,199 for 8GB/256GB. There’s no international launch confirmed yet, and while some are speculating this could eventually show up rebranded as a POCO device, that’s not official.

If you’re the kind of buyer who charges once and forgets about your phone for two days, the M100 is doing something most budget phones don’t bother with anymore, actually treating battery life as the headline feature instead of an afterthought.

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