{"id":294840,"date":"2026-02-21T07:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/294840\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T07:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:57:11","slug":"verdict-why-the-affordable-xiaomi-redmi-note-15-pro-doesnt-get-our-buy-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/294840\/","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":294841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[162737,768,94967,769,761,78004,342,767,111,139,760,69,770,159177,766,762,763,162734,162735,162738,145,765,764,1418,162736,161387],"class_list":{"0":"post-294840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-affordable-xiaomi-phone","9":"tag-benchmarks","10":"tag-budget-smartphone","11":"tag-graphics-card","12":"tag-laptop","13":"tag-mid-range-smartphone","14":"tag-mobile","15":"tag-netbook","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-notebook","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-processor","21":"tag-redmi-note-15-pro","22":"tag-reports","23":"tag-review","24":"tag-reviews","25":"tag-smartphone-buy-recommendation","26":"tag-smartphone-review-verdict","27":"tag-smartphone-with-buy-recommendation","28":"tag-technology","29":"tag-test","30":"tag-tests","31":"tag-xiaomi","32":"tag-xiaomi-redmi-review","33":"tag-xiaomi-smartphone-review"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}