Xiaomi 15 Ultra review

02 March 2025


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Anonymous, 03 Mar 20251400€ for a phone with 4 years of OS updates, and filled wi... moreTrust Me Mate its not an Normal cheap Xiaomi phone ,, i have 14 ultra
And have used 23 phones in 8 years
So This is one of the Best after Htc M8

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    • 03 Mar 2025

    Anonymous, 03 Mar 20251400€ for a phone with 4 years of OS updates, and filled wi... moreConsidering the standard is 2 years and apple does 5 so no idea what the crack at the software updates is about.

    Xiaomi has as much bloatware as Samsung, pixels and any other android brand so this was just a really bad way to try look funny and "cool" with a terrible false joke, gg.

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      • 03 Mar 2025

      Anonymous, 03 Mar 20251400€ for a phone with 4 years of OS updates, and filled wi... moreTrust Me Mate its not an Normal cheap Xiaomi phone ,, i have 14 ultra
      And have used 23 phones in 8 years
      So This is one of the Best after Htc M8

        Anonymous, 03 Mar 20251400€ for a phone with 4 years of OS updates, and filled wi... moreXiaomi's flagships don't have nearly as much bloat ware as the lower end models and you can easily uninstall most of them of force them to stop. There, problem solved

        And let's be honest, if it wasn't for Samsung and Google introducing 7 years of OS updates, you would've still thought that 4 years is pretty good. Not only that, but literally most people will change their smartphones after 3-4 years.

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          • 03 Mar 2025

          1400€ for a phone with 4 years of OS updates, and filled with bloatware, no thanks

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            • 03 Mar 2025

            Anonymous, 03 Mar 2025Hi. I hear you use the OnePlus 13. How's the 2x zoom a... moreEveryone has different opinions about whether the photos are good or not. For me it may be incredible, for you it may not be.
            The internet is full of comparisons and it's better to draw your own conclusions. For example, I prefer blind tests, like this one:
            https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fjq8xErM3Zk
            Or best of all, try the phone yourself in a store.
            It's a shame that the reviews are made only based on the standard settings of the phones. I would really like to have reviews where photos of Flagships are compared with settings made by professional photographers, so that we can understand the real qualities and capabilities of the phones.

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              • 03 Mar 2025

              kdss, 03 Mar 2025But they can still declare them midrange phones of the year. 🤣Hi. I hear you use the OnePlus 13. How's the 2x zoom and 6x zoom? Are they anything good? Thank you!

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                Anonymous, 03 Mar 2025American centric reviewers are going to have a fit when the... moreBut they can still declare them midrange phones of the year. 🤣

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                  • 03 Mar 2025

                  American centric reviewers are going to have a fit when they can't name iPhone Pro Max or Galaxy S Ultra as phone of the year.

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                    Nick Tegrataker, 03 Mar 2025- Excellent battery life surpassing a lot of other phones w... moreRegarding variable aperture, exactly. The sunstars created, despite being only F4 was beautiful from what I have seen posted on by dpreview forum users.

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                      • 03 Mar 2025

                      I'm not impressed.

                      No sd card slot
                      No fm radio
                      No audio jack
                      No IPS LCD only cheap OLED screen.

                      No buy from me.
                      Xiaomi what are you smoking

                        Avoid the global version
                        Has only 5410mAh
                        Google dialer icon is white instead of green
                        No HyperOS 2.1 pre installed
                        Sets default font to Roboto instead of Mi Sans

                        GET THE CHINA VERSION FOR BETTER SPECS!

                          Anonymous, 02 Mar 2025Rx100 has Type 1.0 as well. Very old sensor by the way . ... moreCanon's ultra-thin FF 28mm F2.8 lens uses moulded plastic aspherical elements to achieve a thin profile. Results? It delivers excellent corner-to-corner sharpness, has no problem with handling flare, and its bokeh looks pleasant enough (at least for what you expect from a wide angle F2.8 lens). It's one of the highest quality pancake lenses available in the market at the moment, and while Sony and Nikon have a similar offering (APS-C 20mm F2.8 for Sony, 26mm F2.8 for Nikon, respectively), they are not even remotely close in terms of the overall image quality.

                          Plastic elements are usually more suitable if you want to bend lights in a complex way in a small package because it's significantly easier to manufacture them. Glass is slightly more transparent, more damage resistant and has a higher refractive index in general. It's nonsensical to compare RX100's lens to smartphone lenses because the former is a zoom while the latter are prime, although I don't really understand where you got the information that RX100's lens is "higher quality" to begin with.

                            Anonymous, 03 Mar 2025how is a 5410 mah battery that bad for you?Because Chinese version has 6000 mAh.

                              jiyen235, 02 Mar 2025Find X6 Pro and Find X7 Ultra did the same thing, 65mm/2.8x... moreIt's not the same though. OPPO on their website and promotional materials for the find X7 ultra clearly state the telephoto as 65mm, not 70mm. Xiaomi states it as 100mm. The customers are told the exact focal length

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                                Aierlan, 03 Mar 2025I tried it indoors and the quality at 200mm was significant... moreThe HP9 is only good for 2x zoom, not 4x.

                                  Anonymous, 02 Mar 2025Gsmarena, you forgot to take 17.2x (8.6*2=17.2) zoom photos... moreI tried it indoors and the quality at 200mm was significantly better than the quality at 400mm. The drop in quality was significant. Maybe it would hold up better outdoors though

                                    - Excellent battery life surpassing a lot of other phones with a larger battery capacity, which is good to see from Xiaomi given that they have been falling behind BBK and Samsung in this regard for many years now.

                                    - It's disappointing that their flagship phone, once again, instead of throttling down the chip to keep it cool, pushes it to the point where it overheats and decides to shut down the benchmark app entirely instead. While I haven't observed a real-life report of recent Xiaomi phones shutting down apps (including games), forcing this kind of behaviour on the OS to make their product look better on review definitely hurts their brand image as a whole. Xiaomi absolutely needs to stop doing this - end of story.

                                    - Compared to its predecessor, I see a substantial upswing in its overall image quality. The details look a lot finer than in the 14 Ultra in all its 4 cameras especially during the day, highlight control is now a tad better in low light, and the larger sensor + lens combo on the telephoto lens is absolutely proving its worth. It easily matches the X100 Ultra in this regard, and that's a great thing.

                                    - The lack of the variable aperture in its main camera this year should have been emphasised 100x more in this review, however. This was what let Xiaomi 14 Ultra stand out so much from the rest: the ability to control depth of field (Crucial for a camera with a type 1 sensor), use slower shutter speed for panning shots, and create nice sunstars for creative effects. Well, they are all gone this year. The UWA camera now became a lot narrower to accommodate a smaller sensor, too. In terms of hardware specs, this is more of a sidegrade, and as a whole I don't really consider this camera setup to be any more attractive than the one on the 14 Ultra.

                                    - I haven't got the exact number for its native field of view (Around 93-95mm equivalent in FF?), but the telephoto lens is definitely cropping in when shooting in binned mode as I can easily see the difference in wideness between the 12.5MP shots and 50MP shots. One thing I can say for sure is that stating this as a "100mm" lens on the spec sheet as well as on the actual camera bump is very deceptive, and I'm in utter disappointment to see Xiaomi going down this path.

                                    - Is there any reason why additional shooting modes (Leica Authentic and other various Leica-branded filters) are not mentioned in this review?

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                                      • 03 Mar 2025

                                      indlvarn, 03 Mar 2025Great phone, but curved screen and 5410mah battery is a no ... morehow is a 5410 mah battery that bad for you?

                                        Great phone, but curved screen and 5410mah battery is a no for me.

                                        I was interested in Oppo Find X8 Ultra, but sadly it won't be available in global version.

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