Realme 15 Pro Brings AI Party Tricks And 7,000mAh Battery For Under $400

Realme has launched its latest number series phone, the Realme 15 Pro, in India. According to the company, it’s the “Ultimate AI Party Phone,” and to an extent, that checks out. It adds fun party tricks to an otherwise solid set of hardware. You get a big battery, plenty of power, and a comfortable design. Unlike the Nothing Phone 3, it doesn’t try too hard to stand out, but again, like most AI tricks, the headline feature is gimmicky and probably won’t see much use beyond the initial phase. But dig past the marketing glitter and there’s a fairly well-balanced Realme 15 Pro underneath.

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The new Realme phone features a comfortable-to-hold design. The Flowing Silver color has a finish that “replicates the silk’s fluid drape.” It’s a fashion-forward design but also ergonomic, thanks to curved edges, sides, and display. It’s one of the few phones that still sports a curved screen and is rated IP69 for dust and water resistance.

On the front, you get a 6.8-inch AMOLED display with a 144Hz refresh rate, a 1280 x 2800-pixel resolution, and a 94% screen-to-body ratio. It supports a 10-bit color gamut and 6,500 nits of peak brightness for HDR content. It won’t hit that brightness outdoors, but the screen remains comfortably legible in bright daylight.

The Realme 15 Pro is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 SoC, paired with up to 12GB of LPDDR4x RAM and up to 512GB of storage. It runs Android 15 with ColorOS 15 on top and has a plethora of pre-installed apps, some of which are actually useful. Day-to-day usage is smooth and responsive.

You get plenty of AI features, including the usual suite of AI photo editing and Gemini, as well as some performance optimizations for gaming and thermal stability. I haven’t put all of Realme’s claims to the test yet, but the company says these optimizations help the phone remain fast and cool under load. For instance, there’s an “AI Multi-Tasker” feature that keeps your most-used apps primed in the background. So theoretically, if you’re switching between Maps and Instagram, they’ll load almost instantly.

The Realme 15 Pro sports a dual rear camera setup with a 50MP Sony IMX896 main sensor and a 50MP ultrawide-angle lens with a 115.6-degree field of view. On the front, you get another 50MP selfie shooter. The rear cameras sit in a triple-camera layout, but the third module is actually a sensor to help with Realme’s AI party tricks.

All three cameras can shoot 4K at 60fps, but surprisingly, Realme doesn’t allow you to switch between the main and ultrawide lenses when shooting in 4K60. If you want to switch cameras during video, you’ll need to record in 4K at 30fps.

The aforementioned gimmicky features aren’t always reliable, but they do work—sometimes. These include:

• AI MagicGlow 2.0: Enhances portraits using dual flashlight and pulse lighting to brighten faces, improve skin tones, and sculpt contours with soft light.
• AI Party Mode: Adds low-light portrait effects with lighting overlays, bokeh, and creative watermarks to match the party vibe.
• AI Edit Genie: Lets you edit photos using voice commands. It supports over 20 languages to do things like change colors, erase people, or add objects.
• AI Inspiration: Automatically analyzes your photo and applies pro-style edits like brightness adjustment, skin tone correction, and glare removal.
• AI Landscape: Fixes skewed angles and perspective in scenic shots and removes haze to boost clarity and detail with one tap.
• AI Glare Remover: Cleans up stray glare around light sources in night photos for a clearer, purer image.
• AI Snap Mode: Captures fast action with 0.8s startup, 27 shots per second, and support for up to 200 full-resolution burst images.

The Realme 15 Pro packs a huge 7,000mAh battery inside a sub-188g, sub-7.7mm body, with support for 80W wired charging and bypass charging for gaming. It also has a 7000mm² vapor chamber, which is claimed to reduce high temperatures in intensive tasks by up to 20°C. During gaming, it’s said to drop temps by 3.2°C.

It will be available in four variants: 8GB + 128GB, 8GB + 256GB, 12GB + 256GB, and 12GB + 512GB. The base Realme 15 Pro model with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage is priced at INR 31,999 (approx. $370) and can be purchased for INR 28,999 (approx. $335) with bank offers.