Following Xiaomi's announcement in May 2022 of its partnership with Leica, renders of the first co-developed smartphone have now surfaced. Xiaomi is one of the biggest smartphone brands and its phones are sold across the globe. Like its Chinese counterpart, Oppo, Xiaomi is also known for its innovations. Several of its smartphones have support for 120W fast charging, and in 2021, it demoed a 200W fast wired charging technology and 120W fast wireless charging.
In December 2021, Xiaomi announced a new battery technology that will allow lithium batteries to pack 10 percent more capacity without increasing in size. Xiaomi says the special battery will go into production in the second half of 2022. Xiaomi has also entered the electric car space and plans to release its first car in the first half of 2024.
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Expected to launch as the Xiaomi 12 Ultra, the phone is a more premium version of the Xiaomi 12 Pro. The renders published by Steve Hemmerstoffer (aka OnLeaks) in collaboration with Zouton, show it will have a strikingly different design from its predecessor, the Xiaomi 11 Ultra. Like other premium flagships, the display is curved at the sides and there is a centered punch hole for the front-facing camera. However, the rear is where it differs from other phones. There is no secondary display this year but the gigantic circular camera housing, which has four cameras and a bunch of sensors, takes up more than a third of the entire back. Leica's famous logo is also visible at the bottom corner.
While the back is ceramic, the phone will have an aluminum frame, according to the source. Xiaomi is not new to using ceramic in place of glass for its high-end phones, and it is
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