Please note, we are not saying that this phone is bad, because it has many advantages if compare with the disadvantages. Hopefully we can give more additional information before buy this phone. At July 2022, Xiaomi release the 12S series. Now, we will focus on the most premium version XIAOMI 12S ULTRA.
There are some Android users who really need to have good camera. XIAOMI 12S ULTRA is the collaboration product between Xiaomi and Leica. Who is Leica? Short information about Leica is a Germany company that has several product including camera division. Leica camera is very famous for advance users with high-end camera and lens with beautiful result. Mostly Leica camera has expensive prices.
Advantages & Disadvantages of XIAOMI 12S ULTRA Camera
The special features are available inside XIAOMI 12S ULTRA such as big monster Sony camera sensor 1 inches IMX989, this camera also work with advance hardware and software that powered by Leica. There are three camera with 50.3 megapixel f/1.9 for wide, 48 megapixel f/4.1 for telephoto 5x optical zoom and 48 megapixel f/2.2 for ultrawide with TOF 3D. All lens are located at rounded big lens at back side body. Front camera is punch hole 32 megapixel at top screen.
For everyone who really like to have great camera inside Android smartphone, then Xiaomi-Leica partnership create sophisticated camera hardware and software. The main camera 50.3 megapixel has eight-piece aspheric lens to reduce chromatic aberration, flare and ghosting. The lens coated by high-end features cyclic olefin copolumer material with anti glare edge ink coating with infrared filter technology. Therefore we will get sharp, clear, colorful photos at any situations.
Beside main camera, there are also two other cameras that work with 48 megapixel for ultrawide with Leica Summicron and has dual autofocus, we can shoot telephoto up to 5x optical zoom with OIS to reduce some blur. The last 48 megapixel lens is use for periscope telephoto with HyperOIS as well. We can record movie up to 8K at 24fps or 4K at 60fps or 1080p at 240fps with gyro-EIS (electronic images stabilization).
XIAOMI 12S ULTRA Smartphone Pros & Cons
How about smartphone features? As flagship smartphone, XIAOMI 12S ULTRA is powered by high-end 64 bit processor Qualcomm SM8450 Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 with 4 nm FinFET technology that very important for battery efficiency. It is also has high-end GPU Adreno 730 for fast graphic rendering that support all HD games from Google Play Store.
There are two version of internal memory that we can choose from 256 GB with 8 GB or 12 GB RAM, the other internal storage options is 512 GB with 12 GB RAM. This is the most expensive versions. Please beware for anyone who use this phone for many taking photos and videos, we suggest to buy 512 GB versions if we have enough budget, because this phone does not have external memory slot for big MicroSD, therefore we will store all photos videos and all installed applications data inside internal storage.
Do I Need To Buy XIAOMI 12S ULTRA?
This phone has flagship features and hardware. It is powered by flagship processor Qualcomm SM8450 Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and also has big internal memory and RAM. But the other good consideration about this phone is cheap prices. We can get this sophisticated Android Leica camera smartphone with prices less then U$1000 (depend on storage and RAM configuration). Very interesting to consider.