Xiaomi will introduce the 12S series on July 4th and today confirmed the trio of phones that will appear. We expect a small vanilla Xiaomi 12S, a Xiaomi 12S Pro flagship, and a Xiaomi 12S Ultra camera beast.
The company revealed that the latter will have a completely new 1 “camera sensor from Sony, called the IMX989. However, rumors that the global market will not see them as Xiaomi intends to make the 12S range exclusive to China.
Xiaomi 12S Ultra will have a 1-inch Sony IMX989 sensor
Xiaomi has advertised the new 1-inch IMX989 from corner to corner, but this is misleading information – it’s a 1-inch type, similar to the Xperia Pro-I camera sensor.
The type designation refers to the diameter of the camera tube needed to project an image covering the sensor size. The correlation is not rigid, but the optical format or sensor type is approximately 1.5 times the effective diagonal of the sensor. ‘Type’ is often abandoned for the sake of brevity and is assumed by the context, but in this particular case, we found it necessary to put it into words.
So, we still don’t know if Xiaomi will use the entire sensor surface. The Xperia PRO-I, for example, had an optical system that only used the center of its 1-inch sensor. This requires a much smaller lens while still providing the benefits of large pixels, but technically the sensor isn’t fully utilized.
We are not sure if Xiaomi would decide to take that path but it is definitely something to keep an eye on.
Xiaomi 12S trio
Meanwhile, the specifications of the vanilla Xiaomi 12S suggest a small 6.28 “AMOLED screen with a refresh rate of 120 Hz. It will have two RAM and two storage options: 8/12 GB and 128/256 GB respectively. rear camera ensemble will be 50MP main + 13MP ultra wide angle + 5MP macro, while the front shooter is said to be 32MP.
All these specs look the same as the Xiaomi 12: the difference will be the new Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset while the cameras will receive the Leica treatment.
Xiaomi 12S Pro image leaked
Xiaomi has created a landing page on JD.com, a popular Chinese retailer, for the trio of smartphones. At the time of this writing, each 12S smartphone has over 200,000 bookings, testifying to the great interest of potential customers.
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