Xiaomi developing the first phone with 8K video recording at 30fps

26 September 2019
The upcoming phone is expected to debut with the next flagship Snapdragon chipset.

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Watch them release a Mix Alpha 2 without the black stripe but a pop up camera, and charge you $4.000 because this is alien level technology and would blow your mind if you tried to comprehend.

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    • AnonD-731363
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    • 28 Sep 2019

    Anonymous, 27 Sep 2019You want to watch 8K on 1080p screen? Xiaomi wont even gi... moreThats not true even apple is chinese brand and they use LCD with their cheapest model.
    Litterary whole phone is bought from foxconn which is chinese.
    Huawei uses great screens.
    Samsung uses great screens and like 1/3 or maybe 1/2 of their phones are completely made in china so again is like china made phone.
    Even Alpha for 2500 got samsung screens.
    Read the facts please then keep talking.

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      • 28 Sep 2019

      And this phone's ROM should have to be a minimum of 2 TB UFS_3.0...lol

        Anonymous, 27 Sep 2019You want to watch 8K on 1080p screen? Xiaomi wont even gi... moreYou can watch it on the 8K TV (let's say anybody have 8K TV) or stream it on the YouTube (let's say your local internet speed is world class high). But for those can't even see the difference between 1080 and 4K they definitely can't see the difference between 1080 and 8K because they can't notice the difference just like a tea.. a green tea.. a high tea.. Their taste is just tea.... Hence they are Average Joe have "wood" (good) experience.

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          • Anonymous
          • Lj%
          • 27 Sep 2019

          - CPU has to support 8K
          - sensor has to support 8K also has at least 32MP in 16:9 ratio.
          - no phone can deal with that heat, most brands even put 10 min limits for 4K 30 using less than 48Mbps.

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            • Anonymous
            • Lj%
            • 27 Sep 2019

            AnonD-731363, 26 Sep 2019Watching 8K video on a 6inch screen is same equivalent as b... moreYou want to watch 8K on 1080p screen?
            Xiaomi wont even give QHD to keep hiding poor battery management.
            And keep very low cost phone to earn more profits.

            None of the chinese bramds use good screens

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              • Anonymous
              • Lj%
              • 27 Sep 2019

              Anonymous, 26 Sep 20191. 8k has been introduced some-when about 2009, the collabo... morexz2 premium is 4k 144hz wrgb lcd

                Walter C. Dornez, 26 Sep 2019Nah, I feel like we need to have bigger sensors and slightl... moreIf it comes with the same sensor as the Mi Mix Alpha, then it already has a much bigger sensor then the current smartphone industry average.

                Just need to be a bit bigger to get that 33.2 MP in pixel binning mode, or upscale. It will be interesting to see how they solve it :-)

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                  • 27 Sep 2019

                  TiM, 26 Sep 2019...and i still prefer to record at 720p. Small files and st... more..nah. FHD 1080p @ 60 FPS in HEVC at least.

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                    • Anonymous
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                    • 27 Sep 2019

                    Samsung did that with s10 and so but left it locked

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                      • Anonymous
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                      • 26 Sep 2019

                      Not against any aspect of mobile tech's progress. This being said, of late since the past couple of years I'm getting seriously perplexed by this purely focused on imaging/video arms race in smartphones frankly it's ridiculous.

                      Why? It's as if 90% of the flagship phone market are made solely of "pro" photo/videographers who also happen to be "social media influencers"? Are there any actual empirical evidence to back this number? And for what? Higher PPI output re-compressed and re-scaled per social media apps' upload metric?

                      Thousand dollar phones that's still unable to give us a true "PDA - personal digital assistant" in a converged way e.g you go back home, just place the phone on a specific wireless dock then boom auto desktop mode where you can then seamlessly continue to work with a proper monitor or flat desk screen with the necessary IO tools. Only Samsung it seems are serious about their DeX mode, the rest? "Woah hey check out out our gazillon MP ALL cameras with quadruple lenses!"

                      "Smart"-wise we're losing the ROI value at the rate things are going...

                        Whackcar, 26 Sep 2019To record proper 8k footage, a phone would need 33.2 MP nat... moreBut there isn't many chipset at the moment that can record native 8K res. Heck, even the S10 and Note10 are still restricted to 4K60fps maximum despite using the aforementioned Exynos chipset. But then again, they only have 12MP camera. So for 8k30fps to become a supported feature on current flagships, it needs a mammoth of a camera as you said in your comment. We won't be seeing native sensor as pixel binning is all the craze now, so a Quad Bayer sensor would make sense.

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 26 Sep 2019

                          Truelover, 26 Sep 2019Some even earn from removing features. Apple and Google for... moreYou can use a dongle

                            Whackcar, 26 Sep 2019To record proper 8k footage, a phone would need 33.2 MP nat... moreWell said. You and 2 to 3 others on here are knowledgeable enough to appreciate future-proofing.

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                              • Truelover
                              • Led
                              • 26 Sep 2019

                              Dessert3394, 26 Sep 20198k on a 6" or 7" screen does not make sense, Its just pure ... moreSome even earn from removing features. Apple and Google for example.

                              They call it courage when this is business strategy. Removing magsafe. I asure you at least 1000 macbooks where broken because of not having magsafe port. Knowing apple repair prices at least 600 000$ for every 1000 macbooks. Wireless headphones cost 160$ hwo much does cost wired? OH you can't use wired because COURAGE :D

                                Fhd, 4K, 8K, it's as if comparing output from realme Xt 2mp macro camera, p30 10mp main camera and mix alpha 27mp output. Though the last one is hard to imagine, difference should be obvious. More real.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • DIm
                                  • 26 Sep 2019

                                  Didn't knew Alpha could do 6k at 30 fps, It's still impressive though

                                    Lstar4real, 26 Sep 2019Xiaomi work on your camera first before giving us 8k .....Y... moreReally?1+7Pro is the first OP device to able to compete with Xiaomi in camera dept.Mi8 incomparably better than 6t,Mi5(s plus)also comparing to 3t,5t..

                                      Dessert3394, 26 Sep 20198k on a 6" or 7" screen does not make sense, Its just pure ... moreJust because you shoot 8k on a small device doesn't mean you can't transfer it and watch on an 8k TV.

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                                        • AnonD-731363
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                                        • 26 Sep 2019

                                        Watching 8K video on a 6inch screen is same equivalent as buying diet water in shop because the plain one from home sink had too much calories in it.
                                        Even 4k or 2K is complete waste on such a small screen not even person responsible for radar on largest public airport in the world wont spot any difference on such a small screen.

                                        Onlly size of cinema wall makes visible differences between 4k and 8K video.
                                        And only TVs with size of 42 inches and more makes visible differences between 2k and 4k video.

                                        So again 8k recording on a 6 inch screen will drain your battery ultra fast and will be usefull as a snowball maker, or umbrella for shoes, or butterstick, or usb pet rock, walking sleeping bag etc.