Xiaomi has announced that the upcoming 12S Ultra will use the full size of the 1-inch Sony IMX989 sensor. The phone, which was also developed in collaboration with Leica, will be announced on July 4.
Xiaomi made the announcement on its Weibo account, which was noticed by the Android Authority. The company says its new 12S Ultra will use Sony’s largest mobile phone sensor it currently offers, resulting in better low-light performance, faster focusing and better dynamic range than expected. from the small form factor of smartphones.
This is not the first smartphone to use a 1-inch sensor. Last year, Sony announced the Xperia Pro-I, which was the first smartphone with a 1-inch sensor equipped with phase detection. But in this case, the phone does not actually use the full size of the sensor and is instead a central cut from it.
Although this leads to better quality because the sensor is larger, it was hard to say that it uses a 1-inch sensor when it really couldn’t take advantage of it due to the physical limitations that Sony was dealing with. when it comes to the thinness of the smartphone, the size of the sensor and the optics.
But Xiaomi’s Lei Jun says the crucial 1-inch sensor that comes with the 12S Ultra won’t be cut. How the company plans to deal with the physical problems Sony has faced in its phone is not clear.
June also says that Xiaomi did not just buy the sensor, but that it was developed jointly between the two companies with a total investment value of $ 15 million, divided equally between them. The fruits of this development will first come with the 12S Ultra before being made available to other smartphone makers, so it’s not exclusive to Xiaomi forever.
It should be noted that only the 12S Ultra will have a 1-inch sensor, while the 12S and 12S Pro will include the Sony IMX707 instead.
This means that the Xiaomi 12S Ultra has been developed in conjunction with Leica and Sony to some extent. The German camera maker has struck a deal with Chinese smartphone company May and promised a long-term strategic partnership.
Apart from the promise of a one-inch sensor, the only other details of the Xiaomi 12S series are that it will use a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor.
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