Everything about the phone is great; the build quality, camera, SoC, screen, RAM, battery, sound, you name it. **Except** for the fucking software. While most things just work and the animations are nice, some design choices are really bad (for example: locking the screen to 60Hz with power saving mode enabled, or a maximum of 3 notification icons on the status bar) and to top it off my battery limiter just quit doing its job all by itself and now the phone always charges to 100% instead of 80. No fix in sight either, and trust me, I tried everything I could.

HyperOS is an unfinished, buggy mess when compared to iOS and OneUI, to the point of it being a disgrace. I’m expected to pay a *flagship price*, then I expect, demand even, *flagship stability*, so I don’t have to deal with bad QoL design choices, and the most basic, mundane shit breaking all by itself, thank you very much.

If Xiaomi get their act together with their bullshit software then you’ll have a damn near unbeatable package in the Xiaomi 15, because like I said, it’s a great, well rounded phone underneath. That’s a big fucking **if** though.