After some earlier rumors, immediately Xiaomi lastly confirmed its “long-term strategic cooperation” with Leica, and that they have been co-developing a flagship smartphone forward of its July 2022 launch. This would be the German digicam agency’s newest cell imaging collaboration after Sharp, Huawei and Panasonic.
Xiaomi is not the primary Chinese telephone maker to leverage the pictures know-how from a famend digicam model. In late 2020, Vivo adopted the footsteps of Sony plus Nokia and joined forces with Zeiss, with the newest launch being the X80 sequence. More lately, Oppo and OnePlus began releasing handsets that have been collectively developed with Hasselblad, together with the Find X5 sequence and the OnePlus 10 Pro.
Xiaomi hasn’t shared a lot else about this upcoming product, however our cash’s on Qualcomm’s model new Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor, together with the same old traditional imaging aesthetics and filters from Leica’s aspect. Name-wise, it’s going to both be “Xiaomi 12 Ultra” or presumably kickstarting a “Xiaomi 13” sequence. In the press launch, CEO Lei Jun added that “this cooperation will present a robust enhance to Xiaomi’s imaging technique.” We shall discover out extra in July.