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TL; DR
- Xiaomi is apparently working on a phone with a 200 MP camera and the flagship silicone of 2022.
- The phone is also said to include a double curved screen with a hole cutout.
Xiaomi was the first company to launch a 108 MP smartphone in late 2019 when it launched the Mi Note 10 and significantly increased its megapixel ante. We have since seen Samsung and several other companies offer 108 MP cameras on their phones, but no one has passed that point as of now.
Now, Weibo Leaker Digital Chat Station has claimed that Xiaomi is working on a phone with a 200MP main camera and using the bunny emoji to denote Xiaomi. Check out the machine-translated post below.
The leaker also claimed that this new device will use the SM8450 platform and is expected to be the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 successor, which will be used in many flagships in 2022. Veteran tipster Evan Blass leaked the specifications for the new chipset earlier this month, claiming it will offer a 4nm manufacturing process, an Adreno 730 GPU and a Spectra 680 ISP.
Otherwise, the Digital Chat Station will indicate that the new device will have a double-curved screen with a hole cutout. They add in a follow-up comment that it is too early to find out which device family this new phone belongs to.
Even so, we’ll be playing a wait and see game on smartphones with 200MP cameras. We haven’t seen much of an improvement in image quality with 108 MP cameras in general, and we’ve actually seen brands use 48 MP and 50 MP sensors that have larger pixels and the like when compared to 108 MP sensors Sensor sizes offer.