Xiaomi Announces Global Availability of Its New Flagship Line

During its pre-MWC25 event, Xiaomi announced the global availability of its latest flagship smartphone series, the Xiaomi 15. The line-up was released in China in October 2024, with the global launch a day ahead of the official start of MWC25.

In Europe, the standard handset is priced at around €1,000 while the 15 Ultra begins at almost €1,500. The Xiaomi 15 and Xiaomi 15 Ultra are both powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Mobile Platform, which includes its Orion CPUs said to improve performance by 45% and power efficiency by over 40% compared to predecessors.

Xiaomi’s HyperAI feature set, which is part of its Android-15-based HyperOS 2, also makes its debut outside China across the 15 lineup and Pad 7 tablet series. TJ Walton, senior product market manager at Xiaomi, put HyperAI through its paces during the launch event, which included showing how it can improve productivity through text, speech, search, and image.

HyperAI features also include AI sound recognition for transcribing and identifying speaker-specific audio in calls, recordings, or meeting apps, and AI subtitles for providing real-time translations. The Xiaomi 15 series comes with a three-month trial of the Google One AI Premium plan, including Gemini Advanced and two terabytes of storage for photos and documents.