Across six generations of flagship phones, Xiaomi has quietly shipped smaller batteries to global markets than to Chinese ones — a pattern that has gone unexplained but never unnoticed. The latest leak suggests the Poco F9 Pro will carry a 6,330mAh battery, some 26 percent smaller than its Chinese sibling the Redmi K100 Pro, marking the steepest such reduction in the series' history. What surfaces here is not merely a specification gap, but a window into how multinational technology companies shape different versions of the same product for different corners of the world — and what buyers in t