This camera is a dream of fulfilled. And I haven’t squeezed even 10%

This phone is going to be simply incredible. I do not usually start my first impressions with such energy, but the Xiaomi 15 ultra is worthy of applause. In a high -end market in which it could practically copy and paste the table of specifications of some models and others, It is more difficult than ever differentiating, and Xiaomi has achieved it.

From a spectacular and differential design to a much deeper mobile photography approach than usual. I have been able to try the Xiaomi 15 Ultra for a few days, and I want to tell you my first impressions with him.

Xiaomi 15 Ultra Technical Card

Design, let’s talk about design

Our Xiaomi 15 Ultra has a very striking, very striking design (if you don’t like inventions, you can always buy it in black or white, but this is a pass). Maybe it is difficult to convey how it feels in photographs, but For photography lovers this is a very sweet toy.

It has a finish that mixes vegan leather with glass alloy, does not pick up just traces, has a very good grip and, despite being a huge telephone of 16 centimeters high, is quite comfortable in hand. They wanted to make a tribute to the Leica cameras and, in my opinion, the play has gone well.

If we turn it, we find the typical Quad-Curve screen that is so fashionable on high-end phones coming from China. Personally, I do not fascinate the curved screens, but I must admit that this format is quite aesthetic at the visual level and that, at least in my experience, It does not bother at all to the touch or suffer from ghost touches.

The maximum brightness is 3,200 Nits (in a 25% portion of the panel in HDR content), and is seen in the sun. The only thing that I miss, taking into account that they have already implemented this technology on one of its tablets, is a matt coating to avoid reflexes. There Xiaomi could have differentiated from the rest of his rivals and compete from you to you with We already know who.

Hyperos takes a step towards AI

The manufacturers are centralizing efforts in the functions of their phones, and last year we saw a somewhat lagging xiaomi in this aspect. In this Xiaomi 15 ultra we find a section dedicated to artificial intelligence, as well as native integration with Gemini. Everything is part of Hyperos 2 based on Android 15, a somewhat more advanced system.

I have to say that I liked integration: it is discreet, The system does not give grilled with messages “I have a lot, you use me”and the few functions that are integrated work native discreetly. Specifically, these are the news in this model:

• Writing with AI
• Gallery editor with AI (edition of photographs with generative image expansion, improvement of clarity, draft, videos created with AI)
• Voice recognition with AI (automatic transcription with distinction between speakers)
• Interpret conversations with the no connection
• Interpreter with Ia
• Subtitles with AI

Yes, they are not the most striking or powerful functions of the moment, but it is a simple and honest integration. About the rest, I will detail in the review, although the summary is that Miui Hyperos remains Miui Hyperos

This mobile is made by and for photographers

I will quickly go through the hardware of this phone, since it is exactly what you are thinking: a Snapdragon 8 Elite16 + 512 GB of memory, 5.430MAH battery and a 6.73 OLED 2K (3,200 x 1,440) screen with a 3,000nits peak brightness and a PWM Dimming of 1,920 Hz, quite high. It is early to give conclusions about autonomy and performance, but I already anticipate that at the hardware level it will be difficult to give it too many ear pulls.

The only one is its battery, of 5.410mah. It is not a bad capacity, but the Chinese model has 6,000Mah. There are several manufacturers that, for some reason, are bringing to Europe telephones with less capacity. Bad news for us.

The key to this phone is the camera, and it is that it opens a brutal Teleobjective with a 200 megapixel sensor And a 1/4 “size. The main sensor, one more year, is Sony Lyt-900, a beast of an inch. The lenses have been redesigned and the coating of them has been improved, promising to avoid reflexes. This according to Xiaomi is especially important in night photographs, where the reflexes can end the photograph.

It is today, The smartphone with the highest hardware potential on camera to date. He is accompanied by an optical teleobjective of three increases of 50 megapixels, a new teleobjective of 200 megapixels with Zoom 4.3x and an ultra wide angle, also of 50 megapixels. But little Chicha is of little if there is no good software to manage it.

Analyzing technology is one of my passions. Professional photography and video is another. And I am tired, very tired of the current interpretation of most manufacturers. They sell us “professional” cameras, with clear overload of artificial intelligence functions (useful on certain occasions, but far removed from the natural result that any professional would look for).

The camera app is the entrance door to the photographs we are going to do with the phone, and what I have seen in this Xiaomi 15 Ultra had not seen it to date. This is, by far, the best camera application that I have ever triedand his rivals will not have it easy to match it.

It allows professional camera functions (even some that cameras of more than 2,000 euros do not have), such as LUTS loading for the preview of Log recording, overexposure and sub -exposition patterns, histogram, focus peaking … the only thing that is missing is the RAW in 200 megapixels, something that allow rivals such as the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultrabut this model does not.

With this app, I feel that there have been engineers who have worried about what really matters to a photographer. They have achieved, in my opinion, a perfect balance between a great experience in manual, and an integration of professional functions (real professionals) practically perfect.

About the results, we will talk in the review. Yes I can advance that I look spectacular, and that it will have it easy to become one of the rivals to beat this 2025. It is not a perfect camera and has some work ahead, but what I have been able to try, at least day and in good light of light, is simply impressive.

This mobile cannot be counted. It must be tested

As much as I try, it is very difficult to transmit this phone. Reason? We are all quite tired of high -clonic mobiles: the best market processor, a good panel and many cameras. Yes, the Xiaomi 15 Ultra is a bit of all this, but its goal is what (for me, as a photography enthusiast) should communicate the rest of the high range: a phone for and for fun taking photos.

Don’t you want to complicate and you just want to shoot automatically? Perfect, you just have to press the shutter. Do you want to play with the manual mode, have a very quick teleobjective focusing, record in Log in H.265 (and not with codecs that occupy gigabytes and gigabytes) and have fun taking photos? Here are one of the best manual experiences.

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