Xiaomi’s 15 and 15 Pro will be the world’s first smartphones to use the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset from Qualcomm, and they’re expected to become official in October. Even though we’re still many months away, they’ve already been in the rumors quite a lot, and now some new purported spec sheets for both have been outed in China. So let’s dive in.
The Xiaomi 15 is said to come with a 6.36-inch “1.5K” touchscreen with 120 Hz refresh rate and 1,400-nit brightness in High Brightness Mode, up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM, up to 1TB of UFS 4.0 storage, and a 4,800-4,900 mAh battery with support for 100W wired and 50W wireless charging.
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It will be IP68 certified for dust and water ingress. On the rear there will be three cameras, all with 50 MP resolution: a 1/1.31″ main using the OmniVision OV50H sensor, while both the ultrawide and the 3x zoom snappers will employ Samsung’s ISOCELL JN1 (1/2.76″). The front camera will be 32 MP.
The Xiaomi 15 Pro will have the same ingress protection, selfie camera, maximum RAM and storage amounts, a 6.73-inch “2K” screen with 120 Hz refresh rate and 1,400-nit brightness in High Brightness Mode, and a 5,400 mAh battery with support for 120W wired and 80W wireless charging.
Its camera system will comprise of the 50 MP OmniVision OV50N sensor for the main snapper (1/1.3″, f/1.4 aperture), the 50 MP Samsung JN1 for the ultrawide, and an unnamed 50 MP 1/1.95″ sensor for the 3x optical zoom periscope telephoto (1/1.95″).
The Xiaomi 15 is said to start at CNY 4,599 ($632) with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage and go up to CNY 5,499 ($756) with 16GB/1TB, while the Pro will start at CNY 5,299-5,499 ($728-756) and go up to CNY 6,299-6,499 ($866-894) in the same RAM/storage combos, respectively.
