Ahead of its highly anticipated keynote event at MWC 2024 on February 25 in Barcelona, Spain, which we will be covering live, Xiaomi has announced preorder details for the upcoming Xiaomi 14 Ultra. It also shared official renders of the flagship smartphone to entice early adopters.
(Update, February 23: The Xiaomi 14 Ultra is now official!)
The company will hold a February 22 launch event for the Xiaomi 14 Ultra in China, where it is expected to go on sale first. However, since Xiaomi has yet to reveal the price and specs of the phone, potential customers will be going in blind should they put in a deposit. To be fair, the next-gen Ultra has been the subject of many leaks and rumors over the past few months, so it’s not like they’re pulling the trigger without any idea of what they’re paying for.
Pricing is said to go from €1,499 (around $1,615 or P90,411 converted) for the 16GB/512GB variant in Europe, but that’s still hearsay at this point. Last year’s Xiaomi 13 Ultra did not launch in the Philippines.
As for the renders, it appears the Xiaomi 14 Ultra will sport a flat display with curved edges and small black bezels. The frame is said to be made of aluminum, but we wouldn’t rule out the possibility of titanium and ceramic variants of the camera-focused handset.
At the back, the Xiaomi 14 Ultra gets a vegan-leather panel and a huge circular camera module with four lenses, reminiscent of the previous generation. The inscription on the block confirms an equivalent focal length range of 12mm to 120mm for up to 10x lossless zoom, likely made possible by sensor cropping and advanced image processing. Unsurprisingly, the camera module also flaunts the Leica branding, which has been a staple of Xiaomi flagships since the 12S.
Rumor has it that the Xiaomi 14 Ultra will feature Sony’s one-inch LYT900 sensor on the main camera. This is an upgrade over the Sony IMX989 sensor, which uses a one-inch optical format as well. Sony launched it in collaboration with Xiaomi, and both the 13 Ultra and 13 Pro are equipped with the said sensor.
Other alleged specs include a 6.73-inch OLED display with 1440p resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate, and up to 3,000 nits of peak brightness; a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset coupled with up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 1TB of UFS 4.0 storage; and a 5,300mAh battery that supports 90-watt wired fast charging.
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