Xiaomi 15T Pro Review – You’re Getting A Whole Lot Out Of This

Unboxing

Xiaomi’s T series returns with the introduction of Xiaomi 15T series, and here we have the fully decked out version of the Xiaomi 15T Pro with 1TB storage and 12GB RAM onboard. The packaging is not quite as fancy as the flagship Xiaomi 15 series, though it’s the same box just in white color with the Leica badge as usual.

Inside, you’ll find quite a few items as Chinese-based brands usually still prefer to give you plenty of accessories along with the smartphone itself. These include:
– USB-C charging cable
– 90W fast charging adapter (Europlug)
– SIM ejector pin
– Quick start guide & warranty card
– Safety & regulatory information
– Phone case
– Xiaomi 15T Pro main unit

Walkaround

Design-wise, the Xiaomi 15T Pro becomes more rounded over its predecessor, the 14T Pro; the fourth “lens” in the lower-right of the camera housing now hosts various sensors instead (including one IR blaster – rejoice!), moving the LED flash outward. Three sensors are used for this camera system, including the primary 50MP main sensor, 50MP periscope telephoto, and a 12MP ultrawide sensor with a microphone located nearby.

The side profiles reveal quite a number of antenna lines, with two on the top, two on the bottom, one on the left, and three on the right; Xiaomi says this is part of its improved antenna system that features Bluetooth P2P-based communication mode that allows both devices (must be Xiaomi 15T series in this case) to communicate with each other up to 1.9km away from each other assuming both devices get a clear line-of-sight. Other than that, it’s pretty standard, with the dual SIM tray at the bottom and physical buttons on the right.

Specifications

Xiaomi 15T Pro (2506BPN68G, 12GB+1TB)

Full specifications available on product website.

Form Factor & Build	Smartphone (candybar) Corning Gorilla Glass 7i front Fiberglass rear 6M13 aluminum alloy frame (330 N/mm rigidity) 321 N/mm overall rigidity
Chipset	MediaTek Dimensity 9400+ (3nm, TSMC N3E)
CPU	8-core (1X+3P+4E) Prime: 1x Arm Cortex-X925 @ 3.63GHz Performance: 3x Arm Cortex-X4 @ 3.3GHz Efficiency: 4x Arm Cortex-A720 @ 2.4GHz
GPU	Arm Immortalis-G925 MC12
NPU	MediaTek NPU 890
RAM	12GB LPDDR5X
Storage	256GB UFS 4.1 512GB UFS 4.1 1TB UFS 4.1 [As tested] *No microSD expansion support
Display	6.83″ LIPO (Low-injection Pressure Over-molding) AMOLED four-way 1.5mm bezel, 94.5% screen-to-body ratio 2772×1280 (19.5:9) 144Hz refresh rate 480Hz touch sampling rate (2560Hz boost via Game Turbo mode) DC dimming 3200 nits HDR peak brightness @ 25% APL 12-bit (68.7B) color 447 ppi pixel density HDR10+ Dolby Vision TÜV Rheinland Low Blue Light (Hardware Solution) Certified TÜV Rheinland Flicker-Free Certified TÜV Rheinland Circadian Friendly Certified
Audio	Stereo speakers Dolby Atmos, Hi-Res & Hi-Res Wireless certification No headphone jack (USB-C only)
Cameras	Rear: Leica VARIO-SUMMILUX 1:1.62-3.0/15-115 ASPH. triple camera – 50MP Light Fusion 900 (Omnivision OVX9100) sensor (23mm wide, 1/1.31″, f/1.62, PDAF, OIS, 4-in-1) – 50MP Samsung ISOCELL JN5 (S5KJN5) (115mm telephoto, 1/2.76″, f/3.0, PDAF, OIS, 5x optical zoom) – 12MP Omnivision OV13B (15mm ultrawide, 1/3.06″, f/2.2, 120° FOV) Front: Single cut-out camera – 32MP Samsung ISOCELL (S5KKDS) (21mm wide, 1/3.44″, f/2.2, 4-in-1)
Biometric sensors	Fingerprint scanner (under-display optical)
Connectivity	Wi-Fi 7 (tri-band, dual-band MLO, 2×2 MIMO) Bluetooth 6.0 NFC IR blaster USB 2.0 Type-C Xiaomi Offline Communication (P2P) mode
Cellular Networks	Dual-standby 2x Nano-SIM + eSIM *Enabling eSIM disables SIM2 slot. 2G: 850/900/1800/1900MHz 3G*: B1/2/4/5/6/8/19 4G: B1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/13/17/18/19/20/25/26/28/32/38/39/40/41/42/48/66/71 5G Sub6: n1/2/3/5/7/8/12/20/25/26/28/38/40/41/48/66/71/75/77/78 5G mmWave: Not supported *3G network has been phased out in Malaysia.
Operating System	Android 15 (Xiaomi HyperOS 2) *HyperOS 3 update available starting November 2025 4 years OS updates, 6 years security updates
Battery	5,500mAh Li-ion 1,600 charge cycles (≥80% lifespan) 90W USB-C wired charging (36 min. full charge) 50W wireless charging (56 min. full charge)
Ingress Protection	IP68
Colors	Blaack Gray Mocha Gold [As tested]
Dimensions	162.7 x 77.9 x 7.96 mm
Weight	210g

Performance

System

The Xiaomi 15T Pro is among the most powerful smartphones we’ve tested thus far based on AnTuTu scores – it narrowly surpassed Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max, with the UX score being the biggest contributor in terms of the score difference. On the contrary though, MediaTek Dimensity chips don’t perform as well in general under PCMark tests, where Snapdragon-powered smartphones reign supreme.

CPU

Similarly, Geekbench 6 don’t favor MediaTek-based chipsets that much, so the performance numbers trails behind both Snapdragon counterparts as well as Apple’s A18 Pro and A19 Pro chips powering contemporary flagship iPhones. All things considered though, smartphone chipsets have scaled well past the requirements of modern UIs, so no need to worry about lags on the system at least.

GPU

The Xiaomi 15T Pro comes equipped with Arm Immortalis-G925 MC12 GPU, which ranks on the upper part of our 3DMark Mobile charts, although not quite on the same level as HONOR Magic7 Pro, and certainly not Apple’s current flagship smartphone. Still, it matches vivo X200 Pro with the same GPU, and edges out Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra’s Xclipse 950 GPU; more importantly, it is significantly more powerful than the predecessor on the older generation chipset. That being said, the performance degradation did end up performing worse on the newer model, dropping from 70.9% to 59%.

Battery

The 5,500mAh battery inside Xiaomi 15T Pro isn’t big by modern standards, given that other Chinese smartphone makers have gradually pushed beyond 6,000 and even 7,000mAh cells by this point. Still, for its relatively lean capacity, it managed to last 15 hours and 40 minutes on a single charge, which is quite solid. It’s a big jump over the predecessor’s 11 hours 38 minutes, despite only getting a 10% increase in battery capacity.

User Experience

Software

The setup process for the Xiaomi 15T Pro is quite intuitive, although there are still several bloatware that managed to sneak into the smartphone without even asking through the initial setup. Of which, you’re given the option to set up eSIM right away (provided you haven’t inserted the physical SIM card), along with system fonts, launcher style, and navigation mode.

Once complete, you’re brought into the interface that you selected earlier on, and in my case I opted for the Android way of separating apps into a swipe-up app drawer instead. Here, I do appreciate one feature that I haven’t seen from other variations of Android OSes: the categorization tab above. Makes things a lot tidier, so that’s always a plus. For the notification and control panel, Xiaomi continues to use the separated layout which is activated via swiping on either side of the top edge, or swiping left and right once either of which is already pulled downward.

It’s worth pointing out some of the less desirable parts of the Xiaomi HyperOS UI: I’m not sure if the UI designers are aware of this, because having all of the texts on this particular Google notification obscured by text overflow just seems like a design oversight to me. I’m used to old Androids where notification content are properly presented in multiple lines, so hopefully the next iteration is more accommodating to that.

Another aspect of what looks to be form-over-function is the control panel buttons. I highly doubt anyone – even those familiar with Xiaomi UIs – can clearly figure out what each of these buttons do. Aesthetics can be great, but not at the expense of usability; having no easy way of telling what these buttons do kind of defeats the purpose of control panel’s quick-access nature anyway.

Finally, there’s the minor annoyance in the form of ‘Wallpaper Carousel’ appeared when I tried to swipe left activating this dot-looking icon. Let toolboxes be toolboxes without this getting in the way would be great, but I guess you can still get this over with by simply selecting ‘Toolbox’ when prompted.

Camera

Now, most camera viewfinder interface these days don’t look that much apart from each other, but there are some subtle design decisions that I appreciate when it comes to Xiaomi’s (and perhaps Leica’s) implementation. Switching between different camera modes usually involves swiping the screen or the mode strip, but here you get a pulldown menu that reveals everything right away with an inward swipe – great if you frequently switch between shooting modes.

Camera settings, meanwhile are located under the submenu accessible via the arrow on the left; the grid-style presentation mimics that of a real Leica camera interface, although the options isn’t quite as comprehensive right away as, say, Google Pixel 10 Pro XL. Putting some of the Pro mode settings here wouldn’t hurt, in my opinion. Another small detail I like is the zoom level switch when you tap on the preset zoom buttons – i.e. when you tap on 1x button, it’ll switch between 23mm (1.0x), 28mm (1.2x), and 35mm (1.5x) zoom modes; same also applies to the telephoto shooter where it switches between 5x and 10x zoom.

Given that Xiaomi 15T Pro is among the smartphones to get Leica’s blessing, there’s two photo modes that you can choose from: Leica Vibrant and Leica Authentic. The former is the default mode where colors pop better, whereas the latter is designed to mimic real Leica cameras with a more vintage-like color style. We have a few examples above for comparison, and you can see for your eyes to tell apart the difference.

The Xiaomi 15T Pro is also equipped with a periscope zoom lens with 5x optical zoom and a 50MP sensor that can punch in another 2x zoom (for an effective 12.5MP image) for a combined 10x hybrid zoom. On the other end of the spectrum, there’s ultrawide lens that provides 0.6x zoom, so there are plenty of flexibility when it comes to picking the zoom level for the subjects involved. Above are some of the examples.

If you really want to get things really zoomed in, Xiaomi does have digital zoom up to 100x at disposal, along with some help with – you guessed it – AI. Xiaomi calls it “Ultra Zoom”, which activates once you zoom past 30x (though the option is there on the viewfinder to turn it off or let the phone decide automatically if needed). Unlike the Google Pixel 10 Pro XL, Xiaomi 15T Pro’s approach isn’t quite as aggressive, acting mostly as a sharpening tool rather than a near-generative AI style function in Google’s case.

That said, I’ve tried both Samsung and Google’s high-level zoom modes and both features OIS override, since you may end up missing the subject slightly due to extreme zoom levels involved – this is where you can temporarily disable OIS and re-enable once the subject is perfectly positioned. I can’t find such function in Xiaomi 15T Pro, so stabilization is always active, which can cause far objects difficult to position properly; I often have to flick the device slightly to allow the OIS to reposition itself as a workaround. In any case, we have a few examples:

The first example uses 50x zoom (5x optical + 10x digital) on this signboard – here you can see there are some artifacts near the fringe of the text on the original image, where the Ultra Zoom function helped cleaned up in the upscaled sample. You can still see some parts in the background behind the text where the the shapes gets bunched up (such as the spot right below ‘L’ and ‘E’), but it’s all quite subtle. As a matter of fact, AI-upscaled images like this one are labelled accordingly in the app, though you don’t get two copies of the images like you do in Google Pixels.

This example takes it further by using the maximum zoom available, at 100x. Again, Ultra Zoom doesn’t go too aggressive at cleaning up the noises, but as with the limitation of AIs, you can’t really rely on it to fill in all possible blanks. There are still some artifacts on the processed image, where the structures behind the ‘elite’ sign kind of disappeared into nothing.

Night-time tests – using this TERRACE sign to see how the Xiaomi 15T Pro handles high dynamic range scenarios, the first example is a good showing for the primary 50MP ‘Light Fusion 900’ sensor, where there’s no bloom present and closely resembles what a human eye sees (albeit slightly dimmer than it should be). However, in the second example using the 5x zoom lens, we can see there are significant amounts of bloom around the edges, as the sensor seem to struggle to handle this condition.

Here are some other samples we took using the Xiaomi 15T Pro in various conditions.

Gaming

Xiaomi’s Game Turbo feature for gaming isn’t the most well-designed, I’ll say. For starters, there’s no easy way of telling which performance mode the smartphone is currently operating on, nor is there any easy way of monitoring system metrics like resource usage and thermals. You do get some features like Do Not Disturb switch and recording functions, and some of the more advanced settings must be accessed through menus to get there. Definitely warrants improvements for the next iteration.

While I have no complaints as far as gaming performance goes (graphics max out easily with no hiccups), one rather baffling omission is the lack of bypass charging mode. At best, Xiaomi only offers slow charging for gaming use, but that’s still a potential heat source that can get in the way of thermals.

The Good

The highlights of the Xiaomi 15T Pro lies on the cameras – this triple-camera setup offers something that not many smartphones in its price bracket can offer, like the 5x telephoto zoom lens; the main sensor is also plenty capable at dealing with challenging scenarios with little issues. If you’re looking for a scenery shooter for a friendly pricing, this might just be the one you can get your hands on.

Battery life is another aspect that brings surprise, despite its relatively small 5,500mAh battery by modern smartphone standards (especially among Chinese brands). It’s capable of lasting a whole day with some juice to spare, and if you ever need to recharge, there’s 90W wired charging and 50W wireless charging that can get the battery level up in little time. Again, having both wired and wireless charging this capable is not something you can easily get at this price bracket.

The Bad

The flaws of this smartphone mostly pertain to minor features, so let’s present it here. While there is LIPO AMOLED that helps eliminates bezels, there’s no LTPO AMOLED present here that provides wide range of dynamic refresh rate, which is a big factor in power efficiency, although it’s not a deal breaker by any means considering the battery life as it is right now is plenty solid. One genuine lacking aspect though is the speakers, we think – it’s not great at delivering punchy bass (and there’s no native EQ for it), so a decent pair of earbuds is recommended for media consumption.

Gaming features is another aspect that definitely needs improvement. The Game Turbo interface is not quite intuitive to our liking when compared to various implementations out there, and we think it deserves some UI rework to make it easier to operate. Besides that, having a bypass charging mode would be also great, considering that many phones these days include this feature to minimize extra heat generation during long gaming sessions.

Verdict

The Xiaomi 15T Pro is perhaps one of the cheapest flagship-level smartphones you can buy today, and even in our top-spec 1TB+12GB configuration it only costs RM3,499 (the 256GB version is only RM2,699, mind you). For that price you’re getting the level of camera quality, smartphone performance, and the craftsmanship that you likely won’t be getting anywhere else in this segment, so if you’re a big value seeker, this smartphone is simply hard to pass on.

Special thanks to Xiaomi Malaysia for providing the Xiaomi 15T Pro for this review.