Xiaomi unveils REDMI 15 with Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 silicon, 7000mAh battery in India

The new Android phone is available in three colours-- midnight black, frosted white and sandy purple-- with prices starting at Rs 14,999 in India.

As Xiaomi marks its 15th anniversary, on Tuesday (August 19) it launched the new budget REDMI 15 series in India.

The latest Android phone sports a massive 6.9-inch full HD+ full HD+ (2340 x 1080p) LCD screen with 144Hz adaptive refresh rate, and supports 700nits peak brightness. It also comes with an IP64 dust-and-water-splash-resistant rating.

It also features a hybrid dual-SIM tray (nano SIM-1 + nano SIM-2 or microSD card), a side-mounted fingerprint sensor, an infrared sensor, a Type-C USB port, loud loudspeaker tuned with Dolby audio system, Wi-Fi 6 802.11 ac (dual-band: 2.4GHz + 5GHz) and Bluetooth 5.1.

Inside, the Xiaomi phone is powered by a 6nm class Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 octa-core processor with 900MHz Adreno 619 GPU. It can clock a peak CPU speed of 2.3GHz, which is more than enough to run most of the popular battle royale genre gaming titles.

The device runs Android 15-based HyperOS and comes with 6GB / 8GB LPDDR4X RAM, 128GB / 256GB UFS 2.2 storage (expandable up to 1TB) and a massive 7000mAh (typical) battery with 33W fast charging, and 18W reverse wired charging.

Xiaomi REDMI 15 series.

The phone also flaunts a dual-camera module -- a main 50MP (f/1.75) camera with secondary sensors with LED flash. On the front, it houses an 8MP (f/2.0) front camera for selfies and video calling with f/2.0 aperture.

Xiaomi REDMI 15 series.

The device is available in three colours-- midnight black, frosted white and sandy purple. It comes in three variants-- 6GB RAM + 128GB storage, 8GB RAM + 128GB storage and 8GB RAM + 256GB storage-- for Rs 14,999, Rs 15,999 and Rs 16,999, respectively, from August 24 onwards in India.

REDMI 15 vs competitors

The new Xiaomi will be up against CMF Phone 2 Pro, OnePlus Nord CE Lite 4 (review), iQOO Z10x (review), Motorola Moto G96 5G (review), among others.

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