Xiaomi, unlike Google and Samsung, thinks camera hardware comes first

Xiaomi’s caller Leica Leitzphone has caller hardware tricks including continuous zoom and a LOFIC sensor. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge

When it launched the 17 and 17 Ultra successful Europe connected Saturday, Xiaomi bucked an manufacture trend: it didn't truly speech astir AI each that much. And it really didn't speech astir AI erstwhile it showed disconnected the 2 phones' cameras, including a special variation 17 Ultra co-created with Leica. According to Angus Ng, the company's manager of communications and nationalist relations, that's nary mistake.

"We're inactive presently focusing connected what is the regulation of hardware," Ng told maine astatine MWC 2026, erstwhile I asked wherefore its photography attack seemed truthful antithetic to Google and Samsung's caller Pixel 10A and Galaxy S26 launches. "If it truly comes to a constituent wherever we c …

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