Xiaomi? A few years ago, smartphones from the Chinese manufacturer were still an insider tip. Xiaomi now dominates entire markets and is one of the top 3 mobile phone manufacturers in Europe. The next smartphone should crown the success.
Xiaomi has gradually developed into one of the most innovative smartphone manufacturers in recent years. The Chinese keep surprising with new functions that make the competition look old. Xiaomi recently showed how users should charge cell phones in the near future. Optionally with a 200 W flash charge which ensures that the smartphone is fully charged in just 8 minutes. Or completely without cables, with WLAN power , so to speak. As has now leaked, Xiaomi is also working on a component of the cell phone that is supposed to revolutionize another market.
XIAOMI’S CRAZY PLAN
When Xiaomi launched the Mi Note 10 in November 2019, it caused a sensation. Just when the mobile phone user thought the megapixel war was over, Xiaomi fired a huge projectile. The main camera of the smartphone, which was around 550 euros at the time, has a 108 megapixel sensor. The test showed that the high resolution is by no means an advertising stunt. Now the Chinese want to take the next step.
According to reports, Xiaomi has long been working on its new top model. The Xiaomi Mi 12 is due to hit the market in 2022 and has a camera with a 200 megapixel sensor. No further details are known yet. But with the high resolution, the Chinese are likely to cause a stir again. Since most mobile phone users pay attention to the highest possible numbers in the data sheet when making a comparison, success for the Mi 12 is inevitable.
MORE EQUALS BETTER?
Briefly to explain: A megapixel is to be equated with a million pixels – that is, a million tiny pixels. In general it can be said: the more megapixels a camera sensor has, the more detailed and sharper the image. Theoretically. Because although the camera sensor of the Huawei Mate 40 Pro + with 50 megapixels does not even have half the pixels of the sensor of a Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro , it is even better in practice, as the DxOMark experts have found out .
It doesn’t just depend on the number of pixels. The size of the sensor plays a much more important role. The larger it is, the larger each individual pixel is. The sensor then needs significantly less time to create a perfectly exposed image. In this way, sharp photos with better noise behavior can be taken by hand even in the dark. A 12-megapixel photo that was shot with a DSLR or DSLM is always better than a 12-megapixel photo that comes from a smartphone. That’s because the sensor on a full-frame camera is about 30 times larger than that in a smartphone. It remains to be seen how big the 200 megapixel sensor in Xiaomi’s new smartphone will be. Since the space is relatively small with a cell phone due to the design,
WHEN MANY PIXELS BECOME A DISADVANTAGE
More megapixels can even be bad for you as a mobile phone user. Because: the more pixels, the longer the camera processor needs to process the photo. Continuous shooting also suffers from this. Fewer photos per second are possible due to longer storage times. In addition, a photo with a resolution of 108 megapixels, i.e. 12,032 x 9,024 pixels, takes up more space in the memory. If you want to look at photos on a 4K television, the 4K resolution is 3,840 x 2,160 pixels – only a fraction of what the 200 megapixel sensor from Xiaomi is supposed to record.
