Xiaomi 15 Professional Preview: One other sturdy Android contender

The general design of the Xiaomi 15 Professional follows so carefully the design of its predecessor that you’d in all probability have a tough time telling which is which. The identical flat sides, flat back and front, glass and steel sandwich design cues are right here for yet one more 12 months, and the identical sq. digicam housing on the again is current as nicely.The scale and weight are virtually the identical as nicely, with only a millimeter distinction right here and there and some grams spared in comparison with the earlier mannequin. One factor to say right here is that the Xiaomi 15 Professional would not have a titanium model, whereas the earlier mannequin supplied such an possibility.

The colours proven in the course of the Chinese language launch had been as follows:

• Brilliant Silver Version
• Rock Grey
• White
• Spruce Inexperienced

Transferring to the show, we discover virtually the identical panel because the one on the earlier mannequin. It is a 6.73-inch 2K OLED curved show with a 3200 x 1440 decision, using TCL CSOT’s M9 luminous supplies. The marketed brightness therefore has been bumped as much as 3,200 nits (peak), and the ability consumption has been lowered by 24% in comparison with the Xiaomi 14 Professional.

Our show benchmarks will put these claims to the take a look at, so keep tuned for some arduous numbers one the telephone lands in our lab.

Disclaimer: We measure smartphone brightness at 100% APL, that means a pure brilliant picture throughout the entire display screen.
Lastly, by way of biometrics, the Xiaomi 15 Professional has one improve up its sleeve. The telephone comes with an ultrasonic under-display fingerprint scanner, a transparent improve over the optical one within the earlier mannequin.

This unusual subheading issues the telephoto digicam, and sure, you have guessed it proper, it is a periscope zoom system now. However let’s not get forward of ourselves. This is the triple digicam system spec-wise:

• 50 MP sensor (most important digicam), f/1.44 aperture lens, 23mm equal focal size, OIS, 2.4μm quad-pixel
• 50 MP sensor (telephoto digicam), f/2.5 aperture, 120mm equal focal size, OIS, 30 cm macro distance
• 50MP sensor (ultra-wide digicam), f/2.2 aperture, 14mm equal focal size, 5 cm macro distance

This will likely look suspiciously much like the Xiaomi 14 Professional, barring the aforementioned periscope zoom lens, and that is as a result of… nicely, it’s just about the identical system.

There are some AI pictures methods marketed, however we’ll should snap some samples to go a last judgment on the Xiaomi 15 Professional and its digicam.

The Xiaomi 15 Professional joins the elite (pun meant) Android membership of telephones outfitted with the a lot anticipated and hyped Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. We noticed many leaked benchmarks, analyses, and specs previous to the official unveiling by Qualcomm, and what can we are saying? The chip seems to be like a beast.

For the primary time in fairly some time (or in all probability the primary time ever), this Qualcomm silicon appears capable of tackle one of the best Apple has to supply. We have to run our personal benchmarks to see if these predictions are true, however issues look promising.

Simply to spice issues up a bit, the worldwide model of the Xiaomi 15 Professional was noticed on Geekbench, managing a single-core efficiency rating of 3180 factors and a multi-core rating of a whopping 10058 factors. So keep tuned for our personal benchmarks and comparisons.

On the RAM and storage entrance, there’s nothing stunning. The bottom configuration options 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, which is fairly customary this 12 months. There is a model with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage if you wish to be future-proof.

We’re beginning to see big battery capacities on not-that-big flagship telephones, and the rationale behind that is known as silicon-carbon battery know-how. We have already defined the tech intimately, however lengthy story quick, by imbuing the anode with silicon, engineers are capable of enhance the capability by round 20% for a similar quantity. Honor was the primary Chinese language firm to convey the know-how globally, and now increasingly manufacturers (utilizing the identical producer) are placing such batteries inside their telephones (OnePlus 13 is a major instance).

The Xiaomi 15 Professional is the most recent to hop on that silicon-carbon practice with an enormous 6,100 mAh cell inside its modern and slender physique, a feat that beforehand required an enormous chunk of telephone, such because the ROG Telephone 7 Final.

The charging can also be fairly quick, a minimum of on paper, however this isn’t a shock—Xiaomi telephones are sturdy at quick charging, boasting wired and wi-fi speeds their western counterparts can solely dream of. The marketed speeds are 90W wired and 50W wi-fi, and we are going to take a look at how briskly the Xiaomi 15 Professional prices (and the way lengthy it lasts) as soon as we lay our fingers on the take a look at pattern.

It is too early to say, however what we will say from the specs and the early previews is that the Xiaomi 15 Professional is a critical Android contender, up there with the OnePlus 13, the Honor Magic 7 Professional, and the upcoming Galaxy S25 collection, as nicely.

The telephone comes with an ideal bundle, now that includes a periscope zoom lens, maintaining the good display screen from its predecessor however using new supplies to make it brighter, and final however not least, that includes one of many largest batteries on a flagship.

The deciding issue right here might be world pricing and availability, so we have to wait a bit extra to stamp our last verdict on this one.