I've been trying out the Xiaomi 15T Pro, a smartphone that could be the best deal in mobile photography in 2025. So it's frustrating that it's going to be hard to get hold of for wannabe users in a number of countries.

Xiaomi makes excellent premium phones — the Xiaomi 15 Ultra one of the most fully-loaded photography phones in the world right now (with the price to match). But the "T" version of each Xiaomi flagship generation, coming about six months after the initial release, tones things down, and takes the cost down with it.

So what we have is a phone with 50MP rear cameras and 5x optical zoom, basically the same as you get on the iPhone 17 Pro Max or the Google Pixel 10 Pro XL. Except at 799 euros, you get that hardware for closer to the price of an iPhone 16e or a Galaxy S25 FE.

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