After Xiaomi officially announced its cooperation with Leica, significantly improved cameras are expected from upcoming Xiaomi smartphones. And this afternoon, Lei Jun, founder of Xiaomi, published corresponding information on Weibo for the first time.
The tests of the first products have so far exceeded expectations, and the engineers on both sides are working on further refinement and fine-tuning. The first device will be presented in mid-July, although it will probably be the Xiaomi 12S instead of the Xiaomi 12 Ultra.
With the MIX Fold, Xiaomi introduced a liquid lens in a smartphone camera for the first time, which integrates a macro function into the telephoto lens and enables a 30x zoom with a close focus distance of 3 cm, allowing one lens to work both close and far.
Now, this technology is said to have been improved again. The ultra-wide-angle lens of the new flagship should use an integrated macro, which has already been seen in the competition. It will be interesting to see whether the improved technology will appear in the Xiaomi 12 Ultra for the first time. Or whether Xiaomi will then equip another model with it.