For its upcoming Ultra handset, Xiaomi is developing a completely new camera technology. They plan to release the Xiaomi 15 and 15 Pro base models in a month or two. However, the Xiaomi 15 Ultra will eventually take part in the campaign, starting in 2025. According to DCS, Xiaomi has innovative plans for Ultra’s camera system.
In a Weibo post, Digital Chat Station detailed how Xiaomi is exploring two different configurations for the 15 Ultra. He suggests that one of those has a quad-camera setup. This system’s 200MP periscope telephoto camera with a Samsung ISOCELL HP9 sensor might be its main selling point.
They used the same lens configuration for the Vivo X100 Ultra, and it continuously outperformed rivals in zoom photos. Given that IceUniverse just published a story a week ago about something comparable, DCS’s claim seems plausible. This is a cursory description of Samsung’s HP9 sensor.
It is an optical lens with a 1/1.4″ dimension that can record 200 million pixels in every picture. The size of each of the pixels is 0.56 microns. That’s Samsung’s formula for crisp, pixel-rich photos. The sensor then produces 12 MP images by using 4×4 pixel binning.
The HP9 sensor has independent 2x and 4x in-sensor zoom capabilities. You get roughly 12x lossless zoom if you attach a 3x telephoto lens to it. HP9 accurately focuses light on each diode by attaching highly refractive microlens to the sensor.
It will be the best enhancement to a Xiaomi Ultra smartphone that has ever been seen. Other than that, rumors suggest that the Xiaomi 15 Ultra feature sheet includes a dual-layer OLED, an ultrasonic fingerprint reader, and a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor with roughly 24 GB of RAM.