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- Hey!

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Finally, my order 
of Xiaomi 15 Ultra has arrived.

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This is the most premium smartphone
for 2025 from Xiaomi.

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And personally,
my daily driver

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is the Xiaomi 14 Ultra.

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And probably I might be able
to tell you the differences

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and the improvements
from its predecessor.

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Powered by the Qualcomm
Snapdragon 8 Elite,

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together with a 6,000mAh
of battery,

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a big 200MP periscope
telephoto lens,

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and Bluetooth 6 capability.

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More details 
after this quick intro.

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(introduction music)

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This Xiaomi 15 Ultra
that has 12GB of RAM

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and 256GB of storage
is currently priced

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at around Php59,000
that you can buy

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in UKDB Gadgets
which I'll link

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on the description box below.

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But if you're looking
for an online shop,

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I'll also post it 
on the description box below.

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Honestly, my first impression
is that its camera

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has become larger.

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Its size has increased compared
to the Xiaomi 14 Ultra.

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But one thing to like here
is that its two-tone color

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looks really nice and refreshing.

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The other two colors
that are available

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are only black and white
which I think are kind of boring.

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This is the only color
that's better since I think

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it's being inspired
by the Leica Camera.

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You'll see the Ultra logo here
which is something new

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that's not present
in the 14 Ultra.

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And this time around,
PU leather finish on one side

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and I believe that this is 
a plastic finish

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on the other side.

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They're both not
a fingerprint magnet

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so it's okay for me.

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It also has side aluminum frames
and a lot of antenna bands

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all over the phone.

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The protection of its front glass
is a Xiaomi Shield Glass 2.0

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which is tougher than ever
compared to its predecessor

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which is the Shield 1.

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And this is also an IP68
dust and water resistant

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which I think is kind
of lacking compared

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to other flagship IP69-rated.

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But of course, I always say
don't try to dunk it

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to the water
if you don't need it,

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because the worst thing
that can happen to your happen

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once you dunk it on water
is that there might be fog

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present on the camera lenses
which there are many

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who complained about it
on the Redmi Note 13

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and even on the Xiaomi 14 Ultra.

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You can also buy a camera kit
for the Xiaomi 15 Ultra,

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but for me, I don't really find
any practical usage

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for me, personally,
on my daily usage.

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It has really great capabilities
if you'll be able

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to get the most out of it
as a photographer

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but I have an alternative way
that I'll teach you.

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Take a look.

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Personally, I didn't buy
the camera kit

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of the Xiaomi 15 Ultra. Why?

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Because I don't really find
any day-to-day real life usage

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that'll be practical for it.

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For the 14 Ultra,
I bought a camera kit

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and well, honestly,
I just used it twice

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for the span of two months.

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So you won't really bring it.

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So I found some alternatives
that you can use

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for the 15 Ultra.

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If you're not the type of guy
who'll always use

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the camera kit,
you can consider this option.

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So I bought this from China.

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It's a case where you can attach
your filters on

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which comes in really handy.

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I'm not sure when it's going
to be available

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in the Philippines.

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But if there's already one,
I'll just pop it

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on the description box.

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What this does is that
you can attach your filters

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like what I bought from SmallRig.

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I have here a CPL filter,
black mist filter,

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and also the VND filter 
that has 1-5 stop.

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Now, what I can do here
is just simply attach it here.

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And it gets the job done.

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So any time I want to use this,
I'll just adjust

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the variable as you can see.

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So it does its job
being a filter.

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And another attachment
that you can buy is this one

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from Ulanzi, the CG01 
smartphone cap grip.

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It also has a Bluetooth
shutter button here

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which also can be a shutter.

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And you can use it
as a grip to mount it

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as a camera.

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So what you can do is...

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It'll look like this
after you attach everything.

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Honestly, I don't really find
the practical usage

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of the camera kit of Xiaomi.

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If you want to spend Php12,000,
if you have the money,

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and you find 
any practical usage, okay,

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but if you're like me
where you'll just use it

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once a month,
I'd rather buy something

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like this one, from Ulanzi
and a case like this one

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so you can attach your filters
and you spend your money

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on the filters of SmallRig instead
which I think

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it's more practical.

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And when you grip it,
it looks something like this,

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it has almost the same feel
as the camera kit of Xiaomi.

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What do you think?

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So if you want to know
where you can buy these kits,

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I'll pop it on 
the description box below.

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One of the best things here
is that this has

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a really powerful processor,
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite.

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It's the best for this year.

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And another good news for you
is that Xiaomi gave

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the full potential of the chipset.

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And I was surprised 
that I was able to get

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a 2.7 million score
on AnTuTu Benchmark,

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rivalling the same
as the REDMAGIC 10 Pro

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which is a gaming phone.

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This is not a gaming phone
but Xiaomi gave everything to you.

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You'd see on some
of our other reviews

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that has the Snapdragon 8 Elite,

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like the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra,

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it's only got 2.1 million
AnTuTu Benchmark score.

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The Samsung S25+
only got 1.9 million AnTuTu score.

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And if I remember it correctly,
the realme GT 7 Pro

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only got 2.2 million AnTuTu score.

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And this is the breakdown score.

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Good job, Xiaomi.

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This is the benchmark score
we got on Geekbench

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for its CPU benchmarking

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and GPU benchmarking.

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Its loop score is 5,700
on Wild Life Extreme

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with 76% stability.

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Honestly, its thermals are okay
except that it's kind

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of rocky when it's about
to finish,

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and it throttled to 79%
of its best performance.

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Let's talk about battery.

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It's a huge jump
from its predecessor,

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the Xiaomi 14 Ultra
only has 5,000mAh of battery.

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This China ROM variant
of the Xiaomi 15 Ultra comes

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with a 6,000mAh 
of silicon-carbon battery already.

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But when you buy 
the global ROM,

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it's only 5,410mAh
which is still an upgrade

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from the predecessor.

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And what's good
with the China ROM is that

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it comes together 
with a charging brick

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that's 90W HyperCharge of Xiaomi
which is missing

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on the global variant.

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But they're both supported
by 80W wireless charging

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and 10W reverse wireless charging.

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For my experience using this
for a week already,

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I would say its battery
is fine.

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Personally speaking,
I think it is better

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than the Xiaomi 14 Ultra
which I think drains the battery

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a lot faster.

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Especially when I upgraded
to the HyperOS 2,

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I noticed my battery
drains even faster throughout the day.

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And another surprise 
that I got here is that

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it was able to give me
a 20 hours and 46 minutes

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on the PCMark
battery stress test

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under 50% brightness
and 60Hz of screen refresh rate.

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For me, it's durable.

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Let's talk about its display.

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I noticed that one thing
that it improved here

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is probably the display
compared to the 14 Ultra.

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I feel like its screen
is more vibrant

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while browsing on socials.

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Maybe because I'm also
using the 14 Ultra

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for exactly a year already.

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But one thing I noticed
is that its screen size

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didn't change.

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It still maintained 
a 6.73-inch LTPO AMOLED display

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with 120Hz of screen refresh rate.

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And of course,
supporting Dolby Vision, HDR10+.

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Its peak brightness
also increased to 3,200 nits

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to its predecessor
which had 3,000 nits.

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If you're only browsing
on socials,

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expect your experience
to be good here.

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Browsing on the Xiaomi 15 Ultra,
be it on Facebook,

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Instagram, or TikTok,
swiping on the reels,

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I think you won't have
any problem here.

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As long as your internet connection
is good, I guarantee you

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your experience
will be very smooth here.

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If you're watching HD content
on this phone,

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because it has Level 1
Widevine Security Level,

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for sure that you'll be
really surprised

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with how great
its display is here.

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Very punchy, bright colors,
and the black

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is definitely blacker.

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By the way guys,
I tried Globe, Smart, and DITO,

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they all were able to get
5G signal here.

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And currently, this one
is running HyperOS 2

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inside Android 15.

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And this one comes together
with four Android major updates,

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so you should be updated
up to Android 19.

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Now guys, let's talk 
about the audio.

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It has seven holes on the bottom
and the other one

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is coming from its earpiece.

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So I just want to show you
how loud it is.

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Would the sound blow 
my mind or not?

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(Season of Memories by GFRIEND)

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Honestly, its sound is loud,

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almost the same 
with the Xiaomi 14 Ultra

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but you'll feel its bass
and it sounds really pleasing

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to the ears.

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We've played four games
on this smartphone

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and I played Wuthering Waves,
Farlight 84,

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Genshin Impact,
and Call of Duty Mobile.

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One thing I noticed here
is that its touch sampling rate

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has increased from 240Hz
on the Xiaomi 14 Ultra

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up to 300Hz 
on the new Xiaomi 15 Ultra.

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On Genshin Impact,
I would say my experience here

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was great.

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I hardly felt any lags
on this game.

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My experience was so smooth.

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Battling against the boss
and clashing with many enemies

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on the battlefield, 
you'll really feel that, okay,

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it's very smooth,
I didn't feel any frame drops.

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If there are,
it's almost negligible,

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I didn't feel that much
on this smartphone.

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And the touch response
was definitely fast.