Xiaomi 15 Ultra review

02 March 2025


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Who makes the screen on this 15 ultra??

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    • 09 Mar 2025

    Anonymous, 08 Mar 2025No audio jack = no buyNo $ 200 phone = no buy

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      • sxr
      • 09 Mar 2025

      xiaomi 15 ultra never got top 20th on the dxomark smartphones rankings

        Anonymous, 08 Mar 2025Thank god 1 inch sensor will be thing of the past soon. Eve... moreLol, expect more of them, like ov50x

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          • 08 Mar 2025

          No audio jack = no buy

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            • Sc$
            • 08 Mar 2025

            No SD card reader = no buy

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              • JHd
              • 08 Mar 2025

              Hi GSMArena-Team and everybody else.

              Thank you for years of many many diverse, beautyful, creative and informative pictures in the camera-section of your smartphone-reviews.

              Sadly, lately one of their great, but perhaps less obvious, characteristics starts missing.

              Among the many pictures, you consistently presented shots of 2 or 3 identical "standard-scenes" (same object, same distance to it, same perspective, comparable lighting etc.) for each camera of (nearly) every smartphone tested. This was true for daytime as well as nighttime shots, from the main(back)-cameras at least. Scenes were e.g. the view from the park to the corner of Vitosha Park Hotel, the snail near Vitosha Park Hotel's entrance, the mural with clock on the "golden castle's" front.

              Looking at these "standard- scenes", GSM-Arena's readers could easily compare not only the output of each camera of the same device for a particular scene, BUT ALSO THE OUTPUT OF WIDE(NORMAL)-, ULTRAWIDE- AND ZOOM-CAMERAS OF DIFFERENT DEVICES, NEW ONES AS WELL AS OLDER ONES, FOR THAT SCENE. That was a great feature unique to GSM-Arena's reviews. But... not any more.

              Since GSM-Arena moved to it's new location, the daytime-shots are nearly exclusively taken around this location and are incomparable with shots from the former locations of past reviews. That robs readers the possibility to compare the daytime picture-quality of newer devices with that of many others only some month old. This even applies to phones mentioned in the 'Competition, verdict, pros and cons'- section of newer reviews. Example: Xiaomi 15 ultra (shots at new location) and Xiaomi 14 ultra (shots at old location). And many others.

              Furthermore, GSM-Arena's choice of daytime-scenes at their new location is less diverse and more inconsistent than before: mostly buildings and hardly one scene is identical across all cameras and all devices.

              Luckily, nighttime-shots however are still from the same locations as before and preserve their comparability.

              So, GSM-Arena, please consider to continue shooting some "standard-scenes" again, as before. Either preferably continue with the 'old' standard-scenes or mix old and new ones (as in the Vivo X200 Pro Global's review), but at least develop new "standard-scenes" at your new location to revive that marvelous comparability across cameras and devices.

              For the reviewers, shooting "standard-scenes" again and again may be a bit boring over time, but ... wouldn't it be worth it?

              Kind Regards

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                Anonymous, 08 Mar 2025What makes ColorOS and OriginOS stand out as the best Andro... morecustomisation + stability. Not even OneUI is stable, no matter how or what fanboys say, phone OSs suck and are mostly unstable and i've used an S22 Ultra for 2.5 years, i know exactly what im talking about. Apparently other UIs are even more unstable but i dont really see that. I try another Samsung phone for 2 mins and get the same mid experience as i did on mine.

                Anyways, Origin OS and Color OS seem to be more stable or at the very least as stable as OneUI. Additionally I think their customisation features are some of the best in the industry if not the best. For Samsung you need to download Goodlock for great customisation and if you're gonna have to install a separate app anyways you can just install any app for any android phone. So yeah.

                Finally, HyperOS is the buggiest/least stable top tier OS. Not to mention the lack of proper updates after 6-8 months. Overall it's the weakest I'd say. But by the weakest i mean it's a 6.5/10 experience. Not a bad experience at all. I've seen Chinese reviewers compare OSs and HyperOS has consistently come up with the most issues. For example Xiaobai's test on YT. Moreover, Xiaomi does lots of tricks for gaming and other stuff that leads to poorer experience than other OSs, like thermal throttling/specific scenario based chipset boosting (for example benchmarks).

                Just go look at any ColorOS animation test and just the general feature set, it's extremely good. Imo the best. OriginOS is a close second. Funtouch, OneUI, Pixel UI and HyperOS are third, fourth and joint fifth imo. I dont really see the specialness of the Pixel's UI, it's basic, does it's job but has no comprehensive customisation suite and isn't the most stable. (based on pixel 6/7 experiences at least). The only good thing is the animation and the general style which i'd say is nearly best in class, if not best in class and the niche features which some will be diehard fans of and others won't really care about.

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                  • 08 Mar 2025

                  Anonymous, 06 Mar 2025Vivo is uninteresting this year, because no 1 inch sensorThank god 1 inch sensor will be thing of the past soon. Every company will be ditching it next year. To weak to perform

                    Anonymous, 08 Mar 2025What makes ColorOS and OriginOS stand out as the best Andro... moreColorOS is very stable in general and has an excellent UI fluidity. HyperOS is pretty fluid too, but there are a few minor quirks that bother some people (such as how you need to go through settings to let the app notification come through first).

                      Anonymous, 08 Mar 2025What makes ColorOS and OriginOS stand out as the best Andro... morei ain't reading alldat but ColorOS 15 is definitely peak and leagues above hos

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                        • 08 Mar 2025

                        jiyen235, 02 Mar 2025I said better than the Redmi Note/Poco phones. You can'... moreWhat makes ColorOS and OriginOS stand out as the best Android operating systems? Additionally, why is HyperOS not considered among the best?

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                          • 08 Mar 2025

                          Waza, 08 Mar 2025Well, don't mention the foldable screens because they ... moreUsing battery saver on my xiaomi with hyper os sends it into bootloop. Not a bug insight my a$$

                            Can we shoot photos in 10 bit on xiaomi 15 ultra like we can on flagship OnePlus devices?

                              I know, 07 Mar 2025You buy a phone for innovation or experience? No wonder you... moreCope. Samsung 3x camera is dogwater and hasn't been upgraded in 5 years.

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                                • 08 Mar 2025

                                I know, 07 Mar 2025You buy a phone for innovation or experience? No wonder you... moreWell, don't mention the foldable screens because they are not used in the Galaxy S, and here is another one who thinks that HyperOS still has bugs, it is obvious that you are the one who does not have either of them, and the cameras are really much better from the Chinese, and the AI is nothing special.

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                                  • 07 Mar 2025

                                  Legend007, 06 Mar 2025By default its optimised, if you enable fast charging then ... moreYou buy a phone for innovation or experience? No wonder you guys are never happy and as far as innovation goes, the 200 MP tele shooter by samsung was made for the sole purpose of using it in long range tele lenses..Samsung is just beta testing it on the chinese phones and meanwhile is improving the sensor to use it on the S26 Ultra. Also as far as innovation goes, the 1 inch sensor was 1st used in Sony (hell it is a sony sensor), Now definately imho Xiaomi did better use of the 1 inch sensor than sony but sensor size is not everything. And on the note of innovation, Foldable displays are also given by samsung, curved edges? Samsung (It was and still is shit imo but some people liked it and chinese phones can't go over it yet). Also, use OneUI once..There may be better camera phones than the Galaxy S series..but know what? Hate or whatever, Galaxy S series and Apple iPhoned are the only consistent camera systems out there..they don't perform the best at anything per say but don't suck at anything either and samsung controls the dynamic range the best imo. (If you think Xiaomi is way better, you have never actually touched both the phones, you are just a spec geek then who probably uses a budget or mid range phone cuz all flagships are hell close to each other and still behind dslrs let alone mirrorless). But OneUI is the best android UI period. What does Xiaomi has for it? Its shitty buggy HyperOS shit?
                                  Specs are not everything kid. Your whining won't change the fact that 90% of android flagships sold are Galaxies (and let me tell you that android folks are not ignorant like apple users, they will use whatever they find good and yet they buy samsung.) Why? Because unlike you they have actually used flagships and know that even if samsung may be laid back and all atleast it doesn't wanna make you throw the phone by annoying the shit out of you. Just cuz they don't improve their hardware year after year, doesn't mean they are not innovating in the long run. Galaxy AI is so well executed! Can your Xiaomi do that? And well unlike xiaomi's 95 mm tele lens, Samsung is gonna come up with an improved sensor and a real 5x tele camera..let us see what happens then..Even in low light man, chinese phones are overrated. The difference is just not as sygnificant as the people are trying to highlight!

                                    Aierlan, 07 Mar 2025Gsmarena didn't point it out in the review either. I t... morei think they just don't know lol, they're not thorough.

                                      Obliterates Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra! No brainer for 1100€ (pre-order promos) with the Photo Pack!

                                        jiyen235, 02 Mar 2025Find X6 Pro and Find X7 Ultra did the same thing, 65mm/2.8x... moreGsmarena didn't point it out in the review either. I think the magic 7 pro might have done something similar but gsmarena highlighted that in the review whereas they didn't for the Xiaomi 15 ultra or also didn't for any of Xiaomi's previous phones e.g. the Xiaomi 14 which has a 2.6x telephoto that is listed as a 3.2x. Either they don't notice it (which means they haven't tested it properly) or they don't mention it on purpose

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