Xiaomi 12 Ultra leak just revealed a ridiculously large camera

An unofficial render of the back of the Xiaomi 12 Ultra in white and black

(Image credit: LetsGoDigital/Technizo Concept)

Update: A bran-new batch of claimed leaked renders ostentate how the standard Xiaomi 12 will look more understated than its Ultra sib.

The Xiaomi 12 Extremist could be the first Android superior-flagship phone of 2022, and going aside the current information to trickle outer almost the device, IT certainly seems to have the tv camera gear to patronise such a claim.

What you see on this page are renders published by LetsGoDigital, with the art supplied aside Technizo Concept. These successively are based happening supposed leaks by RODENT950, who showed off two images of questionable phone cases for the 12 Ultra on Chirrup.

Note, these are unofficial renders based off a case for the alleged Xiaomi 12 handset, so it's good to be a tad doubting.

Two images of alleged cases for the Xiaomi 12 Ultra, showing the multiple openings in the camera bump — (Image credit: LetsGoDigital/Technizo Concept)

The Xiaomi Admiralty mile 11 Radical is the current top dog of Xiaomi's flagship phones (excluding the alternatively spec'd Xiaomi 11T Pro). It offers non single the largest camera away area on any current smartphone, but also a second mini display on the back camera bump for notifications and mirroring the camera app's finder.

The 12 Ultra doesn't seem to have this display. Alternatively, there are a ridiculous eight openings on the back, based happening supposed cases shown off by RODENT950. Non all of these wish be cameras, but that's calm down an indicant of a fit-equipped rig. The Mi 11 Ultra only featured three cameras on the back: a 50MP important camera, a 48MP ultrawide camera and a 48MP 5x optical zoom camera, fashioning this looks like a substantial upgrade if avowedly.

An unofficial render of the back of the Xiaomi 12 Ultra in black — (Image credit: LetsGoDigital/Technizo Concept)

Assuming the smallest hole is for a mike, and that the overnight skinny sensing element in the buttocks center will embody the flashbulb, that leaves us with hexa possible sensors. The center opening is believed past LGD and RODENT950 to turn back the principal camera, potentially a 50MP GN5 sensor from Samsung. IT's probably comely to assume that there will be an ultrawide and telephoto lenses, delivery the total camera slots up to three. It begs the question: what could the others be?

The fourth television camera (housed at the 12 o'clock position on the bump), will possibly be a second telephoto camera, like we had on the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra or the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. Having two optical zoom cameras allows for greater versatility when trying to get mid-ranged objects to fill the frame, such equally when fetching portraiture shots.

Adding this turn down-powered telephoto camera back to the Xiaomi 12 Ultra would be effective, but that still leaves two much cameras. We would guess that one of these will be a metre-of-flight Oregon depth sensor, for much operative Atomic number 18 or portrait photo mode shots. As for the unusual, we'd reckon it'll be another kind of specific sensor, maybe for macro operating theatre video. LGD also suggests that a color temperature sensor could Be an option.

An unofficial render of the back and front of the Xiaomi 12 Ultra in white — (Image credit: LetsGoDigital/Technizo Concept)

On LGD's renders, you can see a red Leica logo also happening the camera bump. That's present because of a rumor claiming that Xiaomi and Leica are the latest earphone-maker/camera-maker partnership in the smartphone world. These team-ups lavatory have or s swell effects on photograph quality, like we saw with Hasselblad's involvement with the OnePlus 9 series. We'll have to wait and see exactly what Leica's involvement entails in front we get down to a fault excited about the potential.

Beyond cameras, we'd expect Xiaomi to equip the 12 series, including the 12 Extremist, with a 6.8-inch QHD display capable of 120Hz freshen up rate, as IT's been using connected the past hardly a generations of flagships. Powering dormy the 12 Ultra may be the problem of an enclosed 120W courser, the assonant one used on the Xiaomi 11T Pro. The charging system for the standard Xiaomi 12 is or else reported to be the 67W system victimised on the Mi 11 Ultra and the basic Xiaomi 11T

What we be intimate for sure is that the Xiaomi 12 will lineament the current Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset. That's already been announced, so you can wait top performance for this device, leastwise when compared to other Android phones.

Xiaomi is expected to handout the 12 series before the end of December. Nonetheless, that's in all likelihood to only be a domestic Chinese release. We'll believably see a round release in Borderland 2022, although that won't include the U.S., where the brand has yet to sell its phones.

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