On July 4, Xiaomi officially held the Xiaomi imaging strategy upgrade and Xiaomi 12S series new product launch conference, and launched Xiaomi's first professional imaging series after the strategic cooperation between and Leica - Xiaomi 12S. This series comes standard with Leica professional optical lenses jointly developed by Xiaomi and Leica, and supports Leica's native dual image quality. It uses different image quality adjustment directions to give each creator more creative freedom, and is committed to creating authentic Leica images. .
authentic Leica images, the first Leica native dual-image quality
Facing the era of mobile photography, Xiaomi 12S series joins hands with Leica to create a new standard for mobile photography. Combining Leica's in-depth understanding of optics, tone and image quality with Xiaomi's rich experience in mobile computational photography, the Xiaomi Mi 12S series brings unprecedented image quality to smartphones, highly fitting the colors of Leica cameras tone, and making An experience that is extremely familiar to Leica users.
In order to take the imaging road to the extreme, Xiaomi 12S series teamed up with Leica to develop professional optical lenses and passed Leica Summicron certification. The Xiaomi 12S Ultra lens system combines Leica's world-class optical design capabilities, stringent optical quality testing standards, and Xiaomi's miniaturization design capabilities to ensure that the lens has ultra-high resolution, ultra-high light transmittance , and low dispersion and low glare performance.
The main camera lens of Xiaomi 12S UItra uses an 8P aspherical high-lens lens, and in order to address the pain points that often occur when taking pictures, such as glare, ghosting, purple edges , etc., anti-glare professional coating, edge ink technology, and spin coating technology are specially added. IR filters and cyclic olefin materials perfectly restore the ultimate purity of image quality.
In addition to the ultimate optical design, the Xiaomi Mi 12S series also adds Leica's native dual image quality, inherits Leica's century-old imaging aesthetics, uses the depth engine algorithm to perfectly reproduce Leica's tone and aesthetics, and provides two types of images: "Leica Classic" and "Leica Vivid" Quality choice, giving each creator more creative freedom.
"Leica Classic" image quality style pursues authenticity and naturalness, inherits the classic Leica tone, and retains the true contrast of light and shadow in the picture. This makes a flat photo full of the sense of space and three-dimensionality of the real world, and strives for excellence. Restores Leica's centuries-old light and shadow aesthetics; "Leica Vivid" is the picture quality style adjusted by Xiaomi and Leica. After combining Xiaomi's many years of mobile photography experience and Leica's professional aesthetics, it is more lively and atmospheric on the basis of accurate colors. , striving to restore the photographer’s emotions at that moment, is Leica’s exploration of a new style in the field of moving imaging. In terms of
experience, the Xiaomi Mi 12S series brings the original Leica "immersion" into the mobile phone. The camera is embedded with the same Leica filters, Leica classic shutter sounds and Leica watermarks, allowing you to enjoy every time you press the shutter. You can enjoy the full range of "immersion" of Leica. Xiaomi 12S Ultra and Xiaomi 12S Pro also support the master lens package. Among the several classic legendary lenses launched by Leica over its century-old history, the three most classic legendary lenses are selected for digital modeling, and software is used to simulate their special texture. Replicating its typical imaging effect, the classic lens effect that has experienced hundreds of years of accumulation is perfectly presented on the mobile phone.
One-inch outsole professional main camera, the real "decisive moment"
Xiaomi 12S Ultra is equipped with Sony IMX989 one-inch outsole professional main camera. It uses Quad-Bayer pixel array, with a single pixel reaching an unprecedented 1.6μm, and 4in1 fusion Finally, it reaches an astonishing 3.2μm. With the blessing of a large amount of light, it can achieve excellent noise control capabilities, a large dynamic range and a larger amount of light, and can also achieve better freezing effects at night. This is also the first time that mobile imaging is truly close to the camera level in terms of hardware specifications.
The main camera of Xiaomi 12S and Xiaomi 12S Pro uses Sony IMX707 sensor, which also has the hardware characteristics of large bottom and large pixels. The photosensitive size is 1/1.28 inches, and the single pixel can reach 2.44μm after 4in1, which greatly improves the photosensitivity and ensures uniformity in all scenes. Achieve stronger image quality performance.
In addition, with the support of Xiaomi Imaging Brain and Cyberfocus’s all-in-one imaging algorithm, it can easily start up, capture, and continuously shoot quickly. It supports the world’s fastest 30 frames/second lightning burst shooting and full-scene capture, and even more The capture function is also implemented in night scenes, making the "decisive moment" easier to capture.
At the same time, the Xiaomi 12S series is more friendly to photographers in post-production. All series support shooting 10bit RAW format photos, and have been calibrated by Adobe laboratory, with color correction metadata embedded in the file. When using Adobe Lightroom to open photos taken by Xiaomi 12S series, Adobe Camera RAW software will automatically optimize the photos based on metadata, providing professional photographers with a good starting point for post-production.
At the same time, Xiaomi 12S Ultra is also the world's first Android phone to support Dolby Vision HDR video shooting, and supports both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos experiences. As an advanced imaging technology loved by film and television creators around the world, Dolby Vision helps Android users for the first time to capture vivid colors, stunning contrast and brightness, and rich details in dark and bright areas. Users can publish Dolby Vision content shot by Xiaomi 12S Ultra to a UGC platform that supports Dolby Vision format video sharing and viewing, and share their outstanding Dolby Vision video works with millions of netizens.
In terms of video shooting, Xiaomi 12S Ultra uses HyperOIS super optical anti-shake to obtain extremely strong video anti-shake capabilities. This function associates the OIS signal with the sensor frame-taking rhythm for the first time, using the time between two frames. The gap drives the OIS motor to return to its original position, allowing each frame to have the largest anti-shake range.
One mobile phone, two Pengpai self-developed chips
Xiaomi 12S Ultra is the first flagship model to be equipped with two Xiaomi Pengpai self-developed chips at the same time. In terms of charging and battery life, Xiaomi Mi 12S Ultra is equipped with Xiaomi Pengpai P1 self-developed charging chip and Xiaomi Pengpai G1 self-developed battery management chip. One machine has two self-developed cores, giving users a better user experience.
Xiaomi 12S Ultra uses a combination of 67W Pengpai second charge, 50W wireless second charge and 4860mAh single-cell silicon-oxygen anode battery. The Xiaomi Pengpai P1 charging chip it is equipped with can complete the functions of three charge pump to achieve multi-mode Wired charging + wireless charging + wireless reverse charging. It can support up to 16A output current and has a conversion efficiency as high as 96.8%.
At the same time, Xiaomi Mi 12S Ultra is equipped with the self-developed Xiaomi Pascal G1 battery management chip for the first time. Together with Xiaomi Pascal P1, it forms the Xiaomi Pascal battery management system, which can further improve charging and discharging safety, battery life, endurance, and accuracy of remaining available time. Spend. Xiaomi 12S Ultra improves battery safety through internal micro-detection of the battery cell and battery temperature rise safe zone protection technology. At the same time, charging optimization such as time domain intelligence, battery butler and night intelligence are used to prevent the battery from being in a continuous high temperature and full charge state, and increase the number of cycles by 25%. Dynamic battery power technology is used to precisely monitor the discharge load of the battery to further extend the battery life of the mobile phone. Through self-developed battery management algorithms and self-learning models, the accuracy of estimating the remaining available time can be significantly improved, and as the user's usage time increases, the accuracy will gradually improve.
Xiaomi Mi 12S Pro uses Xiaomi Pascal P1, 120W Pascal second charge, 50W wireless second charge and 4600mAh single-cell battery combination, while Xiaomi 12S uses 67W wired second charge, 50W wireless second charge and 4500mAh large battery combination.
Snapdragon 8+ flagship processor, the reborn king returns
Xiaomi 12S series, Xiaomi’s latest high-end flagship products, are equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ flagship processor. This Snapdragon 8+ mobile platform is different from previous half-generation upgrades. Not only does it increase the frequency of all cores, it greatly improves single-core and multi-core performance, both CPU and GPU have a 10% performance improvement, which is suitable for transient high-burst computing. The task provides good peak performance and long-term high-performance release.
What is more historic is that Snapdragon 8+ adopts the most advanced TSMC 4nm process in 2022. Tens of billions of transistors are precisely integrated on a thumb-sized chip with top-notch technology. Better process technology has greatly increased the energy consumption ratio of , CPU, and GPU by 30%. From Snapdragon 8 to Snapdragon 8+, it is not a small facelift, but a "reborn" upgrade.
With the support of excellent energy consumption ratio, the battery life of Xiaomi 12S series has been greatly improved. The battery life of Xiaomi 12S Pro is about 3 hours longer than that of Xiaomi 12 Pro. The battery life of Xiaomi 12S is about 1.8 hours longer than Xiaomi 12. , which can fully satisfy the user’s use for a whole day. In terms of
cooling system, Xiaomi 12S Ultra is equipped with a new generation of cooling technology, the vein cold pump cooling system. By innovatively referring to the way plant leaf veins absorb water, the vein cold pump is exquisitely designed with liquid return pipes inside, which can take advantage of nature's Capillary force actively and quickly pumps the remote condensed liquid to the hot zone, which greatly improves the problems of insufficient water return capacity and easy burn-out failure of the traditional VC cooling system. The thermal conductivity of the single unit is increased by 100%.
Both Xiaomi 12S Ultra and Xiaomi 12S Pro are equipped with a 6.73-inch AMOLED primary color display made of 2K E5 luminescent material. It supports a 120Hz intelligent refresh rate and a peak brightness of 1500nit. Its fineness, brightness and color performance have reached the level of professional displays and are faithfully restored. Each of your masterpieces. Xiaomi Mi 12S is also equipped with an excellent screen, which is only 6.28 inches in size and can be held in one hand, and has an excellent hand feel. It also supports P3 color gamut display, primary color screen, Dolby Vision and HDR10+ functions. The 120Hz 3D slightly curved flexible screen allows small screens to have a delicate look and feel.
The long-awaited Dimensity flagship, Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro Dimensity Edition has arrived.
In addition to the Xiaomi 12S series, this conference also brought the long-awaited Dimensity platform flagship model: Xiaomi 12 Pro Dimensity Edition. . Its first-ever Dimensity 9000+ flagship processor adopts TSMC's 4nm flagship process, a classic three-cluster architecture, and the ultra-large core Cortex-X2 main frequency is increased to 3.2GHz, with CPU performance increased by 5% and GPU performance increased by 10%. In order to squeeze the processor performance to the extreme, Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro Dimensity Edition uses the same leaf vein cold pump cooling system as Xiaomi Mi 12S Ultra, which greatly improves gaming performance and experience.
The screen uses the same 120Hz, 2K E5 luminous material AMOLED primary color display of Xiaomi 12S Pro. The camera also uses the Sony IMX707 sensor as the main camera of Xiaomi 12S Pro. In terms of battery life and charging, Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro Dimensity Edition has greatly increased the battery capacity to 5160mAh. It is also equipped with Xiaomi Pascal P1 self-developed charging chip and has a wired charging power of up to 67W. The balanced configuration and excellent game performance make Xiaomi 12 Pro Dimensity Edition a great choice. An all-around flagship with gaming expertise.
Xiaomi 12S Ultra comes in two environmentally friendly silicone plain leather colors, classic black and fir green. There are three capacity versions, 8GB+256GB priced at 5,999 yuan, 12GB+256GB priced at 6,499 yuan, and 12GB+512GB priced at 6,999 yuan. Deposit pre-sales will start at 21:00 on July 4th, and the official first sale will be at 10:00 on July 8th.
Xiaomi 12S and Xiaomi 12S Pro are available in four colors, including black, white, and purple made of glass, field green, and made of plain leather. The small-sized high-end flagship Xiaomi 12S has four capacity versions, 8GB+128GB priced at 3,999 yuan, 8GB+256GB priced at 4,299 yuan, 12GB+256GB priced at 4,699 yuan, and 12GB+512GB priced at 5,199 yuan. Deposit pre-sales will start at 21:00 on July 4th, and the official first sale will be at 10:00 on July 6th.
All-round high-end flagship Xiaomi 12S Pro also has four capacity versions, 8GB+128GB priced at 4,699 yuan, 8GB+256GB priced at 4,999 yuan, 12GB+256GB priced at 5,399 yuan, and 12GB+512GB priced at 5,899 yuan. Deposit pre-sales will start at 21:00 on July 4th, and the official first sale will be at 10:00 on July 6th.
also launched a Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro Dimensity Edition, equipped with the Dimensity 9000+ flagship processor. There are two capacity versions, 8GB+128GB priced at 3,999 yuan, and 12GB+256GB priced at 4,499 yuan. Deposit pre-sales will start at 21:00 on July 4th, and the official first sale will be at 10:00 on July 12th.
