{"id":519781,"date":"2026-03-07T06:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519781\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T06:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:11:09","slug":"poco-x8-pro-and-poco-x8-pro-max-launch-date-tipped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519781\/","title":{"rendered":"Poco X8 Pro and Poco X8 Pro Max launch date tipped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/xiaomi_poco_x8_pro_5g-14506.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Poco X8 Pro<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/xiaomi_poco_x8_pro_max_5g-14507.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X8 Pro Max<\/a> are going to become official on March 17, according to a new rumor. These have been leaking a lot lately.<\/p>\n<p>The X8 Pro is rumored to be a rebranded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/xiaomi_redmi_turbo_5_5g-14454.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Redmi Turbo 5<\/a> and the Poco X8 Pro Max a rebranded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/xiaomi_redmi_turbo_5_max_5g-14453.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Redmi Turbo 5 Max<\/a>, but with different battery capacities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"854\" alt=\"Redmi Turbo 5 Max\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772863869_147_gsmarena_001.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nRedmi Turbo 5 Max<\/p>\n<p>Poco has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/poco_confirms_the_chipsets_for_the_upcoming_x8_pro_series-news-71829.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently confirmed<\/a> that the X8 Pro is powered by the Dimensity 8500 SoC and the X8 Pro Max by the Dimensity 9500s &#8211; and, unsurprisingly, those are the exact chipsets used by the aforementioned Redmi devices.<\/p>\n<p>If the March 17 launch date pans out, then expect Poco to start teasing the upcoming duo even more in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartprix.com\/bytes\/exclusive-poco-x8-pro-series-global-launch-set-for-march-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Poco X8 Pro and X8 Pro Max are going to become official on March 17, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-519781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}