The Xiaomi 14 Ultra borrows a top-tier main camera sensor from the Oppo Find X7 Ultra?،
Last year, the Xiaomi 13 Ultra was all about photography, with serious camera hardware and thoughtful post-processing software tricks.
It's 2024 and it's time for the Xiaomi 14 Ultra to be born. It seems that this next flagship will remain faithful to its ancestor, as the Xiaomi 14 Ultra is rumored to feature a brand new cutting-edge sensor from Sony. So far, it's found on the Oppo Find
It is also possible that the Xiaomi 14 Ultra will launch in a few weeks. Let's go.
What is special about this new main camera sensor?
THE Xiaomi 14 Ultra could get the one-inch Sony LYT-900 type sensor, the spiritual successor to Sony's incredibly popular and beloved IMX989 sensor.
LYT is the abbreviation of LYTIA, and it is the new brand of image sensors for mobile devices developed by SSS (Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation).
It is pronounced “Lye-tee-ya”, not Lithya, Lythia or Litya.
The LYT-900 sensor is named a bit like a Terminator (remember the T-800 and T-1000?) and should be as effective as them. The LYT-900 is the high-end model of Sony's LYT series, it is a 50-megapixel one-inch type sensor with individual pixels measuring 1.6 μm.
The LYT-900 beast could potentially be installed in another upcoming camera-centric phone: the vivo X100 Pro Plus. As a side note: Rumor has it that this vivo device will bring a 200 MP periscope telephoto lens with 10x optical zoom and 200x digital zoom. My my my!
What else?
In case that wasn't enough for you, there's more that makes it Xiaomi 14 Ultra a beast of a camera.
According to Android titles report, Xiaomi's new Ultra could offer a variable aperture from f/1.6 to f/4.0 for the main sensor. The 50 MP periscope telephoto camera is said to have an af/2.5 lens and a focal length of 120 mm. The phone is rumored to offer a 50 MP ultra-wide camera and a second 50 MP zoom camera.
On elements not related to the camera: the Xiaomi 14 Ultra could include a curved OLED display with 2K resolution and 120Hz refresh rate, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor paired with up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM, up to 1TB of UFS 4.0 storage, 5,180 mAh with 90 W wired and 50 W charging. wireless charging, integrated ultrasonic fingerprint scanner, two-way satellite communication and HyperOS based on Android 14.
Rumors say that the Xiaomi 14 Ultra is set to be revealed at the end of February. Hmm, let's see what awaits us at the end of February… Oh, that's right: MWC 2024 in Barcelona! We have already talked about the possibility of Xiaomi 14 global rollout during MWC 2024 and we expressed hope that the Xiaomi 14 Pro could also go to Barcelona.
However, if we also get a Spanish reveal of the Ultra variant, it would be another Christmas.
