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And Samsung Galaxy should be worried
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(Image credit: Xiaomi)
(Image credit: Xiaomi)
The newXiaomi12S Ultra Concept Machine does something that none of thebest Android phonesdo: it enables you to attach a professional Leica camera lens to your phone. As CEO Lei Jun says, it’s the first smartphone in the history of mobile phones that can be equipped with pro-spec Leica lenses, but even without adding a whopping great lens to it, the specs are really tasty.
The leak comes via Ice Universe onTwitter, who has acquired photos showing the phone in action. It’s pretty massive on its own, and truly enormous with a lens attached.
(Image credit: Xiaomi)
(Image credit: Xiaomi)
Why has the Xiaomi MI 12S Ultra Concept Machine got a massive lens?
In order to deal with that power, the phone’s camera module has been given a pretty major upgrade too. The Concept Machine – whose name, release date and price are still unconfirmed – has two 1-inch image sensors instead of the single sensor in the Xiaomi 12S ultra, and in the Concept Machine the second sensor is in the centre of the camera module to work with those additional lenses.
If you don’t need quite so much camera power, Xiaomi has a pretty impressive alternative already, also developed in partnership with Leica: the Mi 12S Ultra, which was announced earlier this year, has Leica lenses and a triple-camera model with 50.3MP wide, 48MP periscope telephoto and 48MP ultrawide cameras. Sadly that one’s limited to the Chinese market, and if the Concept makes it into production that’s likely to be the case for that phone too.
That’s why I said that the world needs mobile phone companies like Xiaomi. Although this product will not be mass-produced in the short term, at least Xiaomi shows us a possibility of the future of mobile phone images. Samsung and Apple can’t do this. All they see is money. pic.twitter.com/GO9UQFmeBFNovember 2, 2022
That’s why I said that the world needs mobile phone companies like Xiaomi. Although this product will not be mass-produced in the short term, at least Xiaomi shows us a possibility of the future of mobile phone images. Samsung and Apple can’t do this. All they see is money. pic.twitter.com/GO9UQFmeBFNovember 2, 2022
So why should this worry Samsung Galaxy?
The point is, as Ice himself expressed succinctly in another Tweet viewable above, while it is clear that this Concept Machine phone is not going to go on widespread sale, it is Xiaomi right now who are pushing the boundaries of what smartphones can do in terms of photography, and notSamsung.
What we seem to be seeing right now in the phone industry is Chinese brands like Xiaomi starting to take the lead in technological advancement in a number of key mobile phone areas, including photography and battery systems. This means that phone enthusiasts are now looking at firms like Xiaomi for thenext big thing.
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And, while Samsung and other major phone makers likeAppledo offertheir own areas of technological pioneering expertise, such as folding phone tech for Samsung and processor silicon for Apple, things like taking pictures and charging are really important toevery phone user, so the fact that Xiaomi is now dominating these fields should make Samsung and other rivals worry, as it’s going to make them look more and more attractive as the tech gap widens.
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