{"id":494101,"date":"2026-02-21T06:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494101\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T06:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:46:13","slug":"verdict-why-the-affordable-xiaomi-redmi-note-15-pro-doesnt-get-our-buy-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494101\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdict: Why the affordable Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro+ doesn&#8217;t get our buy recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bodytext\">Despite reaching a high peak brightness of almost 3,000 nits (APL18: 3,146 nits) during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/Redmi-Note-15-Pro-5G-Review-This-Xiaomi-phone-s-highlight-becomes-a-beach-nightmare.1227138.0.html\" target=\"_self\" class=\"internal-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">our testing<\/a>, the phone\u2019s OLED display failed to fully impress us in everyday use. This is because the brightness drops sharply after just a short while, falling below 990 nits in our measurements, and is even much lower in manual mode.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">This substantial reduction in brightness could affect the screen\u2019s legibility outdoors. Particularly in summer, reflections on the glass surface may make on-screen content difficult to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite reaching a high peak brightness of almost 3,000 nits (APL18: 3,146 nits) during our testing, the phone\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[249205,64,63,234,55163,235,227,209486,203,233,226,236,244637,232,228,229,249202,249203,249206,105,231,230,11133,249204,247500],"class_list":["post-494101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-affordable-xiaomi-phone","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benchmarks","tag-budget-smartphone","tag-graphics-card","tag-laptop","tag-mid-range-smartphone","tag-mobile","tag-netbook","tag-notebook","tag-processor","tag-redmi-note-15-pro","tag-reports","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-smartphone-buy-recommendation","tag-smartphone-review-verdict","tag-smartphone-with-buy-recommendation","tag-technology","tag-test","tag-tests","tag-xiaomi","tag-xiaomi-redmi-review","tag-xiaomi-smartphone-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}