Xiaomi’s 12S Ultra rocked the mobile world this year by bringing the largest sensor ever put in a smartphone to the table. And so many people may have first heard the phrase “1 inch sensor” and naturally assume it means what you would think it means.
Unfortunately, the camera space is weird, so it turns out that a thumb doesn’t always mean a thumb literally. We’ve explained this at length in our full review of the Xiaomi 12S Ultra, but that doesn’t mean everyone now knows – or that everyone can refrain from making some kind of joke about whether a thumb isn’t an inch.
Cue JerryRig Everything, the YouTube channel that usually brings us smartphone teardowns. We also have this this time, but also a sensor measurement competition. Armed with a couple of one-inch pieces of paper, Zack decided to boldly step inside the 12S Ultra, taking it down to discover something we already told you a couple of weeks ago in our review, which counts as general notions in the world. of cameras: “1 inch” may be a shortened way of saying “1 inch type”, which does not mean that it measures exactly one inch on either side or diagonally.
Every camera maker and every smartphone maker is therefore “fooling” if your expectation is that things will measure, in inches, exactly the advertised numbers. This has been a long-standing problem and unfortunately no company involved in the manufacture of cameras, camera sensors or smartphones has any incentive to solve. So we’ll just have to get used to the fact that sometimes an inch doesn’t mean an inch.
Anyway, if you want to learn everything there is to know about the Xiaomi 12S Ultra, check out our first live streaming video question and answer session where Will answered all your questions and of course, to our in-depth written review.
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