Xiaomi 15 Ultra leaks in hands-on image

24 January 2025
The camera island is unsurprisingly huge.

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Anonymous, 25 Jan 2025It's meant to replicate the lens of a DSLR. Xiaomi ha... moreI am not just talking about the Xiaomi 15 Ultra but ALL of the current phones using a round camera island like that. It is abundant in all device classes and often takes up so much space, without even looking good. I see why Ultra devices may use this because their cameras genuinely need that extra space. For budget flagships and anything below, not really.

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    xPandamon, 25 Jan 2025People complain about Samsungs design but is this really be... moreIt's meant to replicate the lens of a DSLR. Xiaomi has accessories that fit on top of the round camera island so you can attach filters like you would with a DSLR.

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      • Anonymous
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      • 25 Jan 2025

      The back looks like fabric rather than glass. But it does look nice.

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        • 25 Jan 2025

        Anonymous, 24 Jan 2025Another front load washing machine. Hard pass 🥱Buy an iphone lol.

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          • 25 Jan 2025

          Is the design department hibernating? Another gigantic cyclops-eye camera island! And that ultra-imaginative color: black! Wow. Why do all phones look the same?? When you put this on your ear you look like Princess Leia.

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            • 25 Jan 2025

            Shout out to

            Dumb comment = No Buy

            Gotta be one of my favourite genders.

              DarlingYuck, 25 Jan 2025No 7 OS upgrades = no buy.No 10-bit panel or better no buy 😉

                DarlingYuck, 25 Jan 2025Another phone with unecessary generic ugly big circle camer... moreNo single cohesive equidepth camera bump, no buy. Also their non-ultras have square camera bumps since 13 series.

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                  • 25 Jan 2025

                  No 7 OS upgrades = no buy.

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                    • DarlingYuck
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                    • 25 Jan 2025

                    Another phone with unecessary generic ugly big circle camera island, that looks like another "chinese phone" from 4 years ago.

                    Looks like Chinese companies are happy with the flop sales of their flagship.

                    Ugly big circle camera island = no buy.

                      AlexandrePG, 25 Jan 2025You don't even have the money to not hard pass it lolAnd my experience on 2.0.2.0 vnaeuxm has been quite different, no introduced bugs, great ui performance, no massive drain, in fact it would be 7,5+ h sot, perhaps even over 8 h in 1440p mode, no big screen-off drain either.

                        Anonymous, 24 Jan 2025Another front load washing machine. Hard pass 🥱You don't even have the money to not hard pass it lol

                          I'd gladly make the phone 50% thicker, or have a huge bump, if I could get a leap up from current-gen cameras. Feels like we're so close to a phone camera that's good enough that I won't want a professional camera too.

                          ...."6,000 mAh battery with support for 90W wired and 50W wireless charging too". Please Samsung :( We will all look past he-who-shall-not-be-named. You can push boundaries with batteries again. We gotta have an option outside of Chinese phones

                            Vale, 24 Jan 2025I own a galaxy z fold 5 and this month I bought a Xiaomi 14... moreI tried a Mi10 Ultra before. Xiaomi's UI is really bad imo.
                            Less funtionality, less polish, bugs and ads.

                              People complain about Samsungs design but is this really better? Even on budget flagship phones and budget phones others have giant islands like this on the back.

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                                • 24 Jan 2025

                                The camera island is great for holding. My index finger right underneath it making holding a phone be very comfort.

                                  execyahweh, 24 Jan 2025Companies: "popup cameras add a lot of weight, so they... moreI'm fine with the bump.

                                  I find it funny when people wants best from the camera and complains about a few additional mm bumps! Go buy yourself a slim phone then if that's what you want.

                                  Having one single island for all lenses brings convenience.

                                  It's really easy to clean the lens, just rubbing it with a soft fiber all around and done. When the phone has individual ones like in Samsung you have to do it one by one to make sure you get a clean shot. I always clean the lenses before taking a shot.


                                  The rest is not an answer to the OP.

                                  I never worried about the size or weight of the phone. I'm sure everyone would want it if they put more battery, better cameras, and more rigid design which can compensate the impacts from the dropping.

                                  I don't know if it gets people's attention but we put the phone inside a protective case anyways. All that glorious shiny back panels, fancy designs, materials are just bullshit. I've seen a rare amount of people who use the device plainly and guess what was common? Broken displays, backpanels. They just keep using the phone broken like this.

                                  Stop this bs and please push the brands to make rigid phone which can bear impacts.

                                  There used to be additional offers like this then they stopped. Why we need to be fancy?

                                  Eventually we all want to avoid that repair cost.

                                  Eventually we all want the device to be running smoothly with no issues.

                                  Eventually we all want to spend less and change the device less and less.

                                  But no there has to be sth each time. Bs design choices, fancy glasses, fancy bs naming colors etc. I've seen 90% of the people using a flagship device with rugged impact resistance case. It doesn't look fancy anymore. You aimed fancy but got bored of your toy, cared about the money in the long term.

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                                    • 24 Jan 2025

                                    Another front load washing machine. Hard pass 🥱

                                      Vale, 24 Jan 2025I own a galaxy z fold 5 and this month I bought a Xiaomi 14... moreit's not the same, Samsung One UI is better polished, less power hungry. I'm using Xiaomi currently btw.

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                                        Gnusmas, 24 Jan 2025no sane person would buy a smartphone with memeUI from XioamiI own a galaxy z fold 5 and this month I bought a Xiaomi 14 Ultra to have as a travel phone for it's cameras. The software on both of them is almost the same, I don't know what your idea of a "memeUI" is when I made them look almost exactly the same and it took me 10 minutes. Gows to show how brainwashed some people are

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