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El Xiaomi 15 es uno de los dos nuevos teléfonos insignia anunciados por el fabricante chino en el Congreso Mundial de Móviles 2025 en Barcelona. Aunque no es tan llamativo visualmente como el Xiaomi 15 Ultra, todavía ofrece muchas características impresionantes. En algunos aspectos, incluso supera a su hermano Ultra.

Este teléfono cuenta con una pantalla grande y brillante, cámaras optimizadas por Leica, una potente batería de 5,240 mAh y el chipset Snapdragon 8 Elite más reciente. Funciona con Android 15 y la capa de personalización HyperOS 2 de Xiaomi, lo que le da un aspecto distintivo que difiere del software estándar de Google.

Como se detalla en nuestra reseña completa del Xiaomi 15, es un dispositivo excelente, incluso sin la insignia Ultra. Sin embargo, su disponibilidad es limitada, especialmente en Estados Unidos y Norteamérica. También nos gustaría que pudiera hacer más para destacarse entre los principales teléfonos Android phones.

Reseña del Xiaomi 15: precio y disponibilidad

The Xiaomi 15 isn’t available in the U.S., as is tradition with Xiaomi handsets. The company hasn’t officially sold any of its previous models in the U.S., and it’s not about to start now. That said the phone is officially on sale in the U.K., and you can buy it right now.

Prices start at £899 for 256GB of storage, while a larger 512GB storage option will cost at least £999. That’s actually slightly more expensive than the Xiaomi 14, which started at £849, and comes in slightly higher than the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S25 and iPhone 16.

However since those phones all feature 128GB in their cheaper base models, the Xiaomi 15 is pretty evenly priced considering the 256GB storage you get.

Reseña del Xiaomi 15: análisis de diseño y pantalla

The Xiaomi 15 has a 6.36-inch AMOLED display offering 1200 x 2670 resolution and a dynamic 1-120Hz refresh rate. Like the Xiaomi 15 Ultra, the screen on this model is rated for up to 3,200 nits of brightness, and includes support for HDR10+ and Dolby Vision. There’s an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor under the bottom of the screen as well.

Sadly, the Xiaomi 15 comes with the first generation Shield Glass, which debuted on the Xiaomi 14 series last year. That means the screen isn’t quite as durable as the Ultra, which offers a newer generation of screen protection. That said the Xiaomi 15 does still come with a High-Strength Aluminum frame and IP68 water and dust resistance.

At 191 grams (6.73 ounces), this model is also noticeably lighter than its 8-ounce Ultra counterpart. The 0.31-inch thickness also makes it slightly slimmer than the Ultra. While not the slimmest phone you can buy, the Xiaomi 15 features the same thickness as the iPhone 16. So clearly Xiaomi must be doing something right.

The screen on the Xiaomi 15 is nice enough, and plenty bright, but it’s not quite as captivating as the one on the Xiaomi 15 Ultra. That said, I have absolutely no complaints about the screen or the viewing experience, especially when streaming movies on Disney Plus.

The design of the Xiaomi 15 isn’t quite as impressive as the Ultra, either. While the matte glass back is very nice in itself, the fact that Xiaomi has the enlarged square camera bump doesn’t look quite as impressive.

I’m glad that the Xiaomi 15's camera array is smaller, and not that much bigger than an iPhone 16 Pro Max’s camera. But the Xiaomi 15 Ultra’s Silver Chrome edition offers a retro-camera-inspired design that makes everything else look poorer by comparison.

Reseña del Xiaomi 15: rendimiento de la cámara

The Xiaomi 15 has three rear cameras, each offering 50MP resolution and tuned with Leica optics. They include a standard main lens, an ultrawide angle shooter and a telephoto lens sporting 2.6x optical magnification. A 32MP selfie camera is up front on the phone.

Specs only tell us so much about what a camera is capable of, though. So to see what the Xiaomi 15 is capable of, I put it head to head against the Google Pixel 9 Pro. While this is one of the best camera phones on sale, it couldn’t quite keep up with the Xiaomi 15 Ultra when shooting photos. So let’s see how the standard model from Xiaomi compares.

Testing the main camera lens, a photo shot by the Xiaomi 15 comes out a lot cooler than the Pixel 9 Pro did — which has a warmer, more orange-like look to it. That said, you can still see the effect of the setting sun in both images. In this instance the Xiaomi photo looks a little more true-to-life, but it does look slightly more washed out in the process.

However, the fact the coloring looks more realistic gives Xiaomi's photo the edge, as does the fact the overall photo is a little crisper than what Google has to offer, so that smaller details appear a little more clearly in the Xiaomi 15 shot.

Taking the action indoors, you can see how much of an impact these cameras have had on my Lego space shuttle. Xiaomi's attempt is brighter and slightly sharper, but it hasn’t quite got the colors of the scene quite right. It’s making the shuttle look a little more yellow than it is, while failing to capture the gloss finish of the parks.

The Pixel 9 Pro not only looks white, you can actually see some semblance of my office windows reflected in the shiny plastic finish. The Pixel even managed to pick up all the stray dust particles as well as the Xiaomi 15 (don’t judge my cleanliness from this), even if the picture is a little blurrier up close.

Both ultrawide lenses produced photos that came out a lot darker than they should have, blanketing the tower in shadow that wasn’t nearly as prominent in real life.

The Xiaomi 15 produced lighter images, which works in its favor here, but not by much, and it’s actually difficult to differentiate between the two shots. That said, zoom in far enough and you can see that the Pixel is significantly blurred and pixelated around the edge of the tower — while the Xiaomi 15 is not.

The telephoto shots don’t look all that dissimilar at first glance, The Pixel’s shot is warmer, once again capturing more of the glow of the setting sun, but not by a whole lot. However it seems that the Xiaomi 15 loses the quality battle this time, and you only need to zoom in a little bit to start seeing evidence of that.

The tracks in the dirt aren’t quite as obvious in Xiaomi's shot, and the tower in the distance is a lot blurrier when you look a little closer. Not that the Pixel’s tower is crystal clear, of course, but it is a little crisper and lets you pick out a few more of the details — especially the surrounding plant life.

Jumping up to 2x magnification, and the story is more of the same. The Pixel’s shot is warmer and brighter, which works out in its favor compared to the gloomier Xiaomi attempt. Once again, the tower in the distance is sharper on the Pixel 9 Pro photo.

The differences are even more apparent when you jump up to 5x magnification. Again, the Pixel 9 Pro’s shot is brighter and clearer, and it’s even possible to start picking out the smaller details in the tower without zooming in first.

But once you do zoom in, the Pixel 9 Pro’s photo looks significantly better than what the Xiaomi 15 produces. You can pick out individual bricks in the tower itself, something the Xiaomi hasn’t managed, while also getting a sharper image of the plants on the very top.

Selfies are something of a mixed bag here. The Xiaomi 15’s photo is brighter, letting you see more of me and minimizing lens flare from the sun behind me. However the image looks incredibly washed out, and doesn’t look all that great.

To top it all off, I feel as though the camera may have smoothed out my skin – not to the same extent as the Xiaomi Mix Fold 4 did, but it’s still rather noticeable.

The Pixel faces different issues. While the coloring looks OK, the whole photo is far too dark, and the sun looks like it’s just gone supernova. Plus, while the camera hasn’t tried to apply any beautifying effects to my face, everything is just a little bit grainy and that’s far from ideal.

A lot of the same issues seem to have happened with Portrait mode. But without the sun at my back, things are a little different. The Pixel 9 Pro portrait photo isn’t nearly as noisy, while the Xiaomi 15’s attempt is more washed out than a hotel room towel.

As for the bokeh effect, results are a little mixed. Xiaomi’s bokeh is certainly more consistent, but I feel as though Google’s might actually look better, aside from the fact the Pixel 9 Pro blurred out the left cuff of my jacket along with the background. Interestingly, both phones seemed to struggle with the material around my right arm, and you can easily see a ripple where it hasn’t quite got the lines right.

The Pixel 9 Pro image is also a little grainier, compared to the sharper quality of the Xiaomi 15 photo. Unfortunately it’s been messing with my complexion again, making me look far pastier than I really am and wiping out the majority of my freckles. Plus in both portrait and regular selfie mode, the Xiaomi 15 decided I have gray eyes, which I do not. What’s that about?

Both phones are fairly evenly matched in the low light department, offering things that the other does not. The Xiaomi 15 shot fails on its daffodil itself, with the yellow flower coming up looking washed out and a little blurrier than the Pixel’s attempt. That said, the Xiaomi camera does seem to have picked up on a lot more of the surrounding details, especially in the background. Unfortunately, the Pixel 9 Pro struggles to pick out some of the finer details in the dark.

Overall the Xiaomi 15 has a solid set of cameras, though the performance isn’t quite as impressive as what I found back when I tested the Xiaomi 15 Ultra. Still, the phone offers great quality photos on its lenses, and despite its faults, the final images do look pretty good.

That said, I wish Xiaomi hadn’t switched on facial smoothing features by default. Not only does it ruin a perfectly good picture, the fact it smoothened out and whitened my complexion was just straight up weird, unnecessary and honestly, a little disturbing.

Reseña del Xiaomi 15: rendimiento y características

El teléfono Xiaomi 15, impulsado por el chipset Snapdragon 8 Elite, ofrece un rendimiento impresionante en varios modelos. Las opciones de almacenamiento varían, con los modelos de 256 GB y algunos de 512 GB con 12 GB de RAM, mientras que las versiones más altas de 512 GB y todas las de 1 TB vienen con 16 GB de RAM. En las pruebas, el modelo de 512 GB con 16 GB de RAM mostró un rendimiento sólido.

El Snapdragon 8 Elite se ha establecido como un líder en rendimiento, y el Xiaomi 15 ofrece excelentes resultados en pruebas de referencia. En las pruebas de Geekbench 6, obtuvo una puntuación ligeramente por debajo de la versión Ultra de gama alta en rendimiento de un solo núcleo, con un promedio de 2,972 puntos, pero lo superó en rendimiento multinúcleo, con 9,330 puntos. Comparado con otros teléfonos insignia como el Samsung Galaxy S25 y el iPhone 16 Pro, el dispositivo de Xiaomi mostró un rendimiento competitivo, con el iPhone destacando en puntuaciones de un solo núcleo y el Galaxy S25 teniendo un buen desempeño en pruebas multinúcleo.

En rendimiento gráfico, el Xiaomi 15 superó las expectativas, superando a la mayoría de los competidores en la prueba Solar Bay Unlimited de 3DMark. Alcanzó una tasa de cuadros promedio de 43.9 fps y la puntuación general más alta entre los teléfonos probados, rivalizando solo con el Galaxy S25, que obtuvo 11,412 puntos con una tasa de cuadros de 43.4 fps.

The Xiaomi 15 also did pretty well in our video transcoding test, which saw the phone convert a 4K video into 1080p in 40 seconds. That's 8 seconds faster than the Xiaomi 15 Ultra required, and noticeably faster than the times for the Galaxy S25 (53 seconds) and the OnePlus 13 (1 minute and 1 second). However this test always seems to do well on Apple Silicon, so the iPhone 16 Pro dwarfed all 4 contenders with a 21 second conversion time.

Mobile gaming was pretty smooth in my testing, even at the highest graphics and frame rate I was able to set. Using the Xiaomi 15, I didn't notice excess heat mid-game, even with brightness turned to maximum.

Most notably, even at a distance, the other characters and motion stayed pretty consistent on screen — something the Xiaomi 15 Ultra did have some issues with. So it seems that extra graphical performance doesn’t just come out in benchmarking tests — it's put to good use in practice on the Xiaomi 15.

Reseña del Xiaomi 15: duración de la batería y funciones de carga rápida

The Xiaomi 15 has a 5,240 mAh battery, a pretty sizable power pack when you consider that a lot of premium flagships top out at 5,000 mAh. Battery capacity is important, but it’s not the only thing that affects battery longevity. Thankfully the Xiaomi 15’s battery does seem to have some considerable staying power.

Our battery test involves playing a YouTube video at 50% brightness and 1080p resolution for 3 hours. At the end of those 3 hours the Xiaomi 15 had lost just 10% of its battery, compared to 11% lost by the Xiaomi 15 Ultra — a phone with a larger battery, but also a larger screen. In comparison, the Xiaomi Mix Fold 4 dropped by 14% in the same test, while Google’s Pixel 9 Pro suffered a 21% loss.

The Xiaomi 15 does support up to 90W wired charging, though you will need one of Xiaomi’s 90W HyperCharge power bricks to reach those speeds. Sadly, the phone does not come with one, and you’ll need to buy it separately. But if my 67W HyperCharge brick is anything to go by, the phone will still deliver some truly incredible recharge times.

The 67W brick managed to restore 46% of the phone’s battery in 15 minutes, and 81% by the 30 minute mark. The battery reached 100% 19 minutes later, with a full 0-100% recharge taking roughly 49 minutes.

Interestingly my USB-C multimeter showed that the charging speed never quite hit 60W, and leveled off at around 35-40W during that first half hour. However, that dropped down to below 20W after the 30-minute-mark, as is always the case with lithium batteries.

Reseña del Xiaomi 15: descripción del software

El Xiaomi 15 funciona con HyperOS 2, la versión personalizada de Android 15 de Xiaomi. Ambos teléfonos de Xiaomi están programados para recibir cuatro actualizaciones principales del sistema Android, extendiendo el soporte hasta Android 19, además de seis años de actualizaciones de seguridad. Aunque algunos dispositivos insignia de otras marcas ofrecen hasta siete años de actualizaciones, Xiaomi brinda un período de soporte generoso en comparación con muchos competidores de Android, donde el soporte suele limitarse a cuatro años.

Si prefieres una experiencia más parecida a iOS en Android, vale la pena explorar HyperOS 2. Aunque está basado en Android, la interfaz incluye funciones sutiles inspiradas en iOS, como el diseño dividido entre la sombra de notificaciones y el clon del Centro de Control de Xiaomi.

Al igual que muchos fabricantes de teléfonos inteligentes, Xiaomi se ha expandido hacia funciones de inteligencia artificial. Algunas son fáciles de encontrar, como las herramientas de edición de fotos con inteligencia artificial, mientras que otras son menos evidentes y requieren un poco de exploración para descubrirlas.

Las funciones de subtítulos en tiempo real y traducción automática son características interesantes para explorar, pero en el Xiaomi 15 y 15 Ultra tuve dificultades para entender cómo usarlas sin ayuda.

Similar al modelo Ultra, descubrí que el intérprete de IA no es significativamente diferente de otras aplicaciones de traducción, hasta el punto en que la participación de la IA no se nota. Aunque mantener la IA funcionando sin problemas en segundo plano puede ser útil, Xiaomi debería considerar ofrecer funciones o mejoras únicas para distinguir su software de traducción de competidores como Google Translate.

La tecnología de subtitulado por IA ha demostrado ser prometedora, especialmente cuando funciona correctamente. Sin embargo, todavía presenta dificultades con ciertos idiomas. Por ejemplo, ver contenido en coreano nativo puede ser complicado, y los subtítulos generados a veces no alcanzan la calidad de los proporcionados por los servicios de streaming. Por otro lado, la traducción automática de transmisiones en vivo en español ha sido impresionante, incluso con discursos rápidos. Las herramientas de edición con IA en el Xiaomi 15 ofrecen funciones útiles, pero pueden ser inconsistentes. La función de borrado con IA, por ejemplo, a veces solo elimina parcialmente los objetos, pero pintar manualmente sobre ellos suele dar mejores resultados, aumentando las probabilidades de una eliminación completa. Squid Game.

La mejora con inteligencia artificial puede ser impresionante, pero la calidad de la imagen final realmente depende de lo que estás intentando mejorar. Por ejemplo, agregar más detalles de fondo a una foto nocturna de un narciso en la hierba suele ser indistinguible del original, haciendo que la participación de la IA pase casi desapercibida. Sin embargo, cuando se intenta ampliar escenas complejas como exhibiciones detalladas de Lego, los resultados tienden a ser mediocres. Mantén tus expectativas realistas, especialmente cuando trabajes con imágenes intrincadas o desafiantes.

Las funciones de edición del cielo en el Xiaomi 15 funcionan de manera impresionante, cambiando eficazmente la apariencia del cielo y eliminando reflejos en las ventanas en las fotos. Estas herramientas incluso ajustan sutilmente el tono general de la imagen para que coincida con el cielo, mejorando el realismo. Aunque algunos de estos cambios no siempre sean perfectos, ayudan a crear fotos con un aspecto más natural. En general, las funciones de edición impulsadas por inteligencia artificial en el Xiaomi 15 funcionan bien, pero encontrarlas y usarlas puede ser complicado, ya que no siempre son fáciles de localizar — un desafío común en muchos teléfonos y sistemas operativos.

Reseña del Xiaomi 15: veredicto y análisis

The Xiaomi 15 is a great phone that’s overshadowed by the far superior Xiaomi 15 Ultra, which offers significantly better looks and performance even if it does cost considerably more. Despite this, there’s certainly nothing wrong with the non-Ultra model, with the Xiaomi 15 offering great battery life, benchmark results and solid camera performance.

The AI features are certainly interesting, though Xiaomi could do with making them a little easier to find — especially for AI that isn’t related to photo editing. Other phones don't make their AI tools easy to find, but it's still something Xiaomi will need to address if it wants users to adopt HyperAI.

The real problem is that the Xiaomi 15 isn’t quite as easy to get hold of compared to other big brands, with no official U.S. availability whatsoever. But if you do manage to get your hands on one, you should have a solid phone that does everything it needs to — and it does those things well.