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A Xiaomi anunciou dois novos smartphones: o Xiaomi 15 e o Xiaomi 15 Ultra, revelados no Mobile World Congress em Barcelona. Embora esses modelos talvez não estejam disponíveis nos Estados Unidos, eles oferecem recursos impressionantes—especialmente a versão Ultra. Este celular se destaca em quase todos os aspectos.

O Xiaomi 15 Ultra possui especificações impressionantes, incluindo câmeras calibradas pela Leica com uma lente telefoto de 200 MP, uma bateria de grande capacidade e o poderoso chipset Snapdragon 8 Elite. Assim como outros dispositivos da Xiaomi, ele prioriza um software personalizado em vez de uma experiência Android pura.

Conforme detalhado na nossa análise completa do Xiaomi 15 Ultra, esse celular é um destaque. Ele apresenta uma tela deslumbrante, design inovador, câmeras excelentes e uma bateria de longa duração. No geral, é um dispositivo bastante bem-sucedido em todos os aspectos, mesmo que não esteja amplamente disponível em todos os lugares.

review do Xiaomi 15 Ultra: preço e disponibilidade

Xiaomi has confirmed that the Xiaomi 14 Ultra will be released on March 4, but it’s safe to say that it won’t be officially coming to the U.S. There’s no reason why Xiaomi would start now. That said the phone will be coming to Europe, and presumably the U.K. as well. Prices will start at $1,499 ($1,599), the same as the Xiaomi 14 Ultra. While Xiaomi hasn’t confirmed, we assume this means the £1,299 starting price will be sticking around in the U.K. as well.

Análise do Xiaomi 15 Ultra: design e tela

The Xiaomi 15 Ultra apresenta uma impressionante tela AMOLED de 6,73 polegadas com resolução QHD+ nítida e uma taxa de atualização adaptável de 1 a 120Hz, alimentada pela tecnologia LTPO. Ele suporta HDR10+ e Dolby Vision para visuais vibrantes e de alto contraste, com níveis de brilho que atingem até 3.200 nits. Um sensor de impressão digital ultrassônico sob a tela aprimora a segurança.

A tela é protegida pela segunda geração do Shield Glass da Xiaomi, oferecendo uma durabilidade significativamente aprimorada — afirmam ser até 16 vezes mais resistente a quedas do que o modelo Xiaomi 13 Ultra anterior. Recursos adicionais de durabilidade incluem resistência à água e poeira IP68, uma estrutura de alumínio de alta resistência e uma placa traseira de fibra de vidro de grau aeroespacial, todos projetados para tornar o telefone robusto sem adicionar peso excessivo.

O dispositivo pesa entre 226 e 229 gramas, semelhante a outros smartphones topo de linha, como o Xiaomi 13 Ultra, e mais pesado do que modelos como o Xiaomi 14 Ultra e o iPhone 16 Pro Max. Embora tenha uma sensação de peso mais sólido na mão, continua confortável para a maioria dos usuários. Sua espessura de 0,37 polegadas significa que não é o telefone mais fino do mercado, mas essa é uma troca pequena pelo seu acabamento premium.

Testei a edição Silver Chrome, que possui um visual inspirado em câmeras vintage. Diferente das grandes saliências de câmera típicas da Xiaomi, esta versão apresenta uma aparência mais refinada, reminiscentes das câmeras Leica clássicas, com acabamento em couro falso. No entanto, achei o design da tela curva menos atraente, mas, no geral, a estética é bastante marcante.

That particular display design has fallen out of favor with most major flagships, but it seems to be flourishing in China. To make matters worse, while some phone makers have utilized curbed displays to reduce the bezel, the Xiaomi 15 Ultra does have a relatively thick bar around its edges. Just slightly thicker than the already-chunky bezels on my Pixel 9 Pro — especially around the corners.

The screen does look very nice during use, and that is immediately apparent. Even if you’re just scrolling through apps and Google Play, the on-screen experience is surprisingly enjoyable. Naturally watching movies on Disney Plus is an experience I have no complaints about. The picture and colors are great, though the usual pitfall of excessive black space does irritate me. Sadly that’s just the downside of watching movies on your phone.

You do have to make sure you have the right viewing angle, though. As bright as the Xiaomi 15 Ultra is, catching it from a side-angle in sufficiently bright conditions turns it into a slightly-effective mirror. Looking at the screen more or less head-on is usually OK though.

Análise do Xiaomi 15 Ultra: Desempenho da câmera

The Xiaomi 15 Ultra packs in four rear cameras, alongside the usual hole-punch-style selfie camera at the front. That rear camera setup features a trio of 50MP lenses with the main, ultrawide and “floating” telephoto lenses (3x optical zoom) all offering the same level of resolution. Meanwhile, the periscope telephoto lens boosts that figure up to 200MP (plus 4.3x optical zoom), with the selfie camera offering a pretty standard 32MP sensor.

All four rear cameras offer Leica optics, though this privilege apparently hasn’t been afforded to the selfie camera — for reasons unknown. However specs are only able to go so far, and to see what the Xiaomi 15 Ultra is capable of we put it head to head against the Google Pixel 9 Pro — one of the best Android camera phones on sale.

Here you can see the main lens in action, with a photo of a sculpture down by the Barcelona beachfront. The most obvious difference is that the Xiaomi’s photo is much darker than Google’s, albeit with a slightly wider field of view. See past that and the quality isn’t immediately different, but zoom in and you’ll find that the 15 Ultra does a much better job of the smaller details.

Whether we’re talking human faces, the texture of the wooden panelling, or just the text on the side of the bar, Google’s image comes off much blurrier and lacks the same detail as Xiaomi.

Take the cameras indoors and the opposite is true. The Xiaomi 15 Ultra is brighter and a little hazier than the Pixel 9 Pro -- especially in the background. That also makes it harder to see the reflection in the can, though the can itself looks surprisingly crisp compared to the Pixel, especially when you zoom in.

There isn’t much of a difference with the lighting on this ultrawide shot, of the W Barcelona hotel, although the color of sky on the Pixel 9 Pro seems a little more muted than Xiaomi - truer to the actual conditions when this photo was taken. Once again, though, the image is much crisper with the Xiaomi 15 Ultra, with the phone able to pick up a lot more detail without the increasing levels of haze as you zoom in. Sadly Google can’t say the same.

Testing the telephoto lens at standard magnification, and the Xiaomi 15 Ultra produces a much darker photo once again. Significantly darker than the Pixel 9 Pro, though while Google's camera is brighter the hotel itself is quite overexposed. The quality is also nowhere near as good as the Xiaomi 15 Ultra, though that isn’t saying much. Xiaomi’s camera may pick up more details with the telephoto lens, but it still doesn’t look all that great either.

Up the magnification to 2x and things haven’t really changed. The Xiaomi’s photo remains quite dark, and lacks a lot of details that I’d have liked to see. That said the Pixel 9 Pro seemingly does a worse job, with less clarity and the same overexposure on the hotel building.

Boosting the magnification to 5x and the overall quality photo looks significantly better on both devices. The Xiaomi 15 Ultra is still quite dark, but not as much as it was at lower magnifications. The coloring seems to be a lot better than the Pixels 9 Pro’s too, which retains some of that hazy overexposure that affected the other telephoto shots.

As for quality, it’s much harder to say. But I feel it will have to go to the Xiaomi 15 Ultra, on account of the fact you can pick out the seagulls flying around almost immediately. The Google Pixel 9 Pro still managed to pick them up, but they’re not nearly as noticeable - with many of them almost simply blending into the background.

Xiaomi’s selfie capabilities aren’t bad, and the colors come out with quite warm coloring compared to the Pixel 9 Pro. The images are also a lot crisper, with finer details like hair strands standing out more on their own. The Pixel 9 Pro does seem to have picked up a much better image of what I actually look like, though, picking out more freckles and pores than seem to appear on the Xiaomi image. It even captured my pasty complexion in a more true-to-life way.

In terms of Portrait mode, both phones came out more or less equal. The Xiaomi 15 Ultra offered a warmer image again, but it also failed to pick up some of the finer skin details that the Pixel 9 Pro has. The bokeh effect also neatly cuts me out away from the background, with no major issues to be seen. Though the Pixel does seem to blur the background a little more, if that’s something you actually care about.

The low light photography is fairly evenly-matched on both phones, with the Xiaomi again darkening up the colors a bit more than the Pixel 9 Pro. That said the image itself is still plenty bright, and the automatic nighttime mode kicked in wonderfully. Look closer, though, and the Pixel seems to have picked up a better quality photo - with the graffiti on the pillar coming out much sharper than the Xiaomi managed.

It’s more than fair to say that the Xiaomi 15 Ultra has an excellent set of cameras, not just in terms of the overall quality but in a lot of cases offering warmer and more true-to-life colors. At the same time it avoids some of the pitfalls I found with the Xiaomi Mix Fold 4 last year -- which seemingly used post-shot processing to try and make up for its weak camera, to limited success.

I don’t like the fact that the images produced by the 15 Ultra are quite dark, and I feel like the telephoto lens could have performed a lot better. Especially considering it's running on a 200MP sensor. But, overall, I wouldn’t be disappointed to have the Xiaomi 15 Ultra as my main camera phone.

Análise do Xiaomi 15 Ultra: desempenho e recursos

O Xiaomi 15 Ultra, assim como muitos smartphones topo de linha Android lançados neste ano, é equipado com o chipset Snapdragon 8 Elite e 16 GB de RAM. Este processador de alto desempenho demonstrou resultados sólidos, especialmente nos testes de multi-core e gráficos. Mas como o Xiaomi 15 Ultra se sai nos benchmarks do mundo real?

Nos testes de núcleo único, o 15 Ultra alcança cerca de 2.986 pontos, uma média em comparação com outros celulares premium. Para comparação, o Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra marca 3.031 pontos, enquanto o OnePlus 13’s registra 2.893. O iPhone 16 Pro Max, com seu chip A18 Pro, supera todos com uma pontuação de 3.386.

O desempenho em multi-core conta uma história diferente. O Xiaomi 15 Ultra pontua 9.064 pontos, próximo aos 9.058 do OnePlus 13. No entanto, fica atrás do Galaxy S25 Ultra, que alcança 9.829 pontos, provavelmente devido ao seu chipset Snapdragon 8 Elite para Galaxy mais potente. A pontuação em multi-core do iPhone 16 Pro Max, de 8.306, é significativamente menor do que a de todos os três celulares Android.

No desempenho gráfico, com o Snapdragon 8 Elite, os resultados ficam um pouco abaixo dos outros smartphones topo de linha. Em um benchmark popular do 3DMark, o Xiaomi 15 Ultra marcou 10.100 pontos, inferior aos 11.140 do Galaxy S25 Ultra e aos 10.741 do OnePlus 13. A taxa média de quadros também foi menor, com 38,4 fps, contra 42,4 fps do Galaxy e 40,84 fps do OnePlus 13. Apesar disso, o Xiaomi 15 Ultra superou o iPhone 16 Pro Max, que obteve 7.396 pontos e uma média de 28,1 fps.

Nos testes de transcodificação de vídeo, o Xiaomi 15 Ultra apresentou desempenho forte, convertendo um vídeo 4K para 1080p em 48 segundos — mais rápido que o Galaxy S25 Ultra, que levou 52 segundos, e o OnePlus 13, que completou em 61 segundos. Ainda assim, ficou atrás do iPhone 16 Pro Max, que realizou a tarefa em apenas 21 segundos.

Durante jogos, o Xiaomi 15 Ultra foi fluido e sem travamentos. Enquanto os personagens se moviam de forma suave, jogadores distantes pareciam um pouco trepidantes e menos fluidos. O dispositivo não esquentou de forma perceptível durante sessões prolongadas de jogo.

Análise do Xiaomi 15 Ultra: desempenho da bateria

Xiaomi has a 5,410 mAh battery hiding inside, which is quite a long power reserve — even among premium flagship phones. But having a large battery is one thing, what matters the most is whether that battery will be able to last a long time between charges, and it seems as though the Xiaomi 15 Ultra is capable of that.

Our battery test involves playing a YouTube video at 1080p resolution for three hours with the phone set to 50% brightness. At the end of those three hours, the Xiaomi 15 Ultra had lost just 11% of its battery, compared to 14% loss experienced by the Xiaomi Mix Fold 4 and 21% experienced by Google’s Pixel 9 Pro. Clearly the big battery and the more power-efficient Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset are working together quite nicely.

Should you ever need to recharge, the 15 Ultra supports 90W wired and 80W wireless charging thanks to Xiaomi’s HyperCharge technology — assuming you have the appropriate first party chargers. While I didn’t have a 90W charging brick, I did have a 67W Hypercharge brick to hand, which managed to restore 46% of the battery in just 15 minutes. That figure jumped up to 81% after half an hour.

According to my USB-C multimeter the charging speed topped out at around 61.9W. But for the majority of testing those speeds fluctuated between 25W and 40W. As impressive as these figures are, I would guess anyone with a faster Hypercharge brick would see considerably faster recharge times. Which is impressive, considering how speedy the 67W brick is. Sadly the charging brick was not included in the box, so you’ll have to source one by yourself.

Análise do Xiaomi 15 Ultra: recursos de software e desempenho

The Xiaomi 15 Ultra roda com o HyperOS 2, baseado no Android 15. A Xiaomi promete quatro gerações de atualizações do Android e seis anos de patches de segurança. Embora isso seja um pouco menos do que o suporte de sete anos oferecido por algumas marcas, ainda supera muitos outros fabricantes de celulares Android.

O HyperOS 2 se assemelha bastante ao iOS da Apple, com recursos como menus de notificações divididos semelhantes ao Centro de Controle do iOS. Essa escolha de design faz com que a interface pareça mais familiar para os usuários de iOS. No entanto, o sistema operacional mantém suas raízes no Android, incorporando elementos conhecidos como o feed Discover e o layout típico de configurações. Apesar dessas semelhanças, o HyperOS 2 oferece uma experiência distinta em comparação com o Pixel Launcher do Google ou a One UI da Samsung, com seus próprios toques únicos na interface. Para entender mais sobre o que Google e Samsung estão oferecendo, confira o que Google e Samsung estão oferecendo.

Xiaomi continua avançando com inteligência artificial, apresentando o smartphone 15 Ultra equipado com um conjunto completo de recursos proprietários chamados HyperAI. Ele também inclui funcionalidades populares de IA do Google, como o assistente Gemini e o Circle to Search. Além disso, a Xiaomi oferece uma avaliação gratuita de três meses do Gemini Advanced junto com o 15 Ultra.

Embora esses recursos sejam comparáveis aos encontrados em outros dispositivos Android, a extensa lista do HyperAI pode parecer semelhante à primeira vista, levantando questões sobre o que realmente diferencia a Xiaomi.

Um desafio comum com smartphones alimentados por IA como este é a facilidade de descoberta. Muitas funcionalidades estão escondidas em menus diferentes, dificultando que os usuários as encontrem e utilizem de forma eficaz. Por exemplo, legendas com IA, que fazem parte das opções do Centro de Controle, não são imediatamente evidentes e requerem alguma pesquisa online para localizá-las.

AI Subtitles were somewhat inconsistent in my experience. Sometimes the subtitling would work really well, like translating French to English. However other times it only picked up a handful of words here and there, like when I was trying to watch the Korean dub of Squid Game. While this could prove particularly useful, temper your expectations a little bit. And be prepared to read fast, because the window isn’t very big.

AI Image editing features are much easier to find, though they’re not too dissimilar to the kind of things you’d find in Google Photos or on Samsung Galaxy phones. Generally, these features are quite good. Image expansion isn’t perfect, but it created a pretty strong recreation of my current desk setup. Image erasure is another matter since it doesn’t actually erase objects in frame - it simply transforms them into something else.

So the Android figurine on my desk was turned into a green teapot, while the drinks cans sitting next to my laptop were shrunk down into little metal pucks. Which is far from ideal. When you’re offering an object erasure feature, the least it can do is actually erase the objects. The Magic Sky feature could have a little trouble detecting the sky as well, which is a rather big problem for a feature called "Magic Sky".

The AI Writing tools function more or less the way you’d expect. You can summon a chatbar from the keyboard app, and type in your prompts on what you’d like the AI to do for you. I had it create me a shopping list so I could cook lasagne, then asked HyperAI to give me a recipe -- because I don’t mind if it thinks I’m a dummy that can’t cook lasagne. Other additional features include changing the tone of your written work, summarizing, proofreading and expanding on something you’ve already written.

So if you plan on using AI on a Xiaomi 15 Ultra, be sure to temper your expectations. But if all else fails at least you have Gemini and Circle to Search to fall back on.

Análise e avaliação do Xiaomi 15 Ultra

Overall the Xiaomi 15 Ultra is a great phone with all the qualities you’d expect from a premium-priced smartphone. The camera quality is excellent all round, and doesn’t fall into the trap of utilizing too much AI or post-image processing in a way that spoils the final image. Battery life is similarly good, and you shouldn’t have issues running out of power in the middle of your normal day.

The thing I like the most about the Xiaomi 15 Ultra is the design of the Silver Chrome edition. I’ve made no secret of my dislike for large camera bumps on phones, so the fact Xiaomi has adopted that shape to emphasize the retro camera design is pretty marvelous. I hope that’s a trend that continues, especially if Xiaomi continues its partnership with Leica in the future.

There are some issues I have with the 15 Ultra, though. AI features are, at best, basic without any real unique selling points. At worst they just don’t work the way you’d expect, and that means the company is falling behind rivals like Google and Apple. The iPhone-inspired software design isn’t to my taste either, though I could see how that might appeal to others.

If you can get over the fact that HyperOS is very different to other varieties of Android, like the Stock or Pixel launcher, then this should prove to be an excellent choice in phone. Assuming you’re able to buy one, that is.