Leica is looking for a new smartphone partner, eyeing Xiaomi and Honor [Updated]

15 May 2021
The Huawei P50 series will likely be the last phones with the Leica branding.

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Anonymous, 16 May 2021Better Than Sony baloney with cheap quality hardware and so... moreLol, Sony use cheap quality hardware? What a corny joke. A friend of mine had been using his old Xperia Z2 for six years before he replaced it with an Xperia 10 Plus in 2019 and still using it to this day. Try again next time.

    Livius, 16 May 2021" Xiaomi has great software " LoL, best joke I�... moreExactly! People buy Xiaomi phones because it's cheap, that's all. Even my friend who is currently using a Poco X3 Pro really hates MIUI. He also complained about third-party ads coming back despite already disabled it from the Settings. But since that phone is just about the cheapest brand new flagship-grade smartphone available at the moment, he has no choice but to keep on using it. He did ask me about flashing custom ROM, but I don't dare to do it on a brand new smartphone because of the warranty.

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      • 16 May 2021

      3VA, 16 May 2021leica is the one who provide glasses not sensor.. ryyb sens... morePhones use plastic lenses.
      Leica is not supplier.
      They just evaluate and give their okay.

        Anonymous, 16 May 2021Xiaomi has great software. MIUI is the best.. The cartoon ... more" Xiaomi has great software " LoL, best joke I've heard today. What are you smoking ? Or you never owned an expensive phone from other brands ? My dad is using a trash Poco X3 and it's still on february security patch with no Android 11 and bugs. People praise Xioami because it's cheap, if it wasn't then nobody would praise it so much.

          The camera of the Huawei P40 Pro is good. It would be nice if it came in Xiaomi's.

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            • 16 May 2021

            Vivo_Zeiss another example

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              3VA, 16 May 2021honestly miui is the worst ui i ever experiencedLet me guess it was your budget Xiaomi from 5 years back

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                • 16 May 2021

                Anonymous, 16 May 2021Xiaomi has great software. MIUI is the best.. The cartoon ... moreMIUI is the best?! 🤨 With all those crap app pre-install and the MIUI itself took like 30% of your phone storage. And you're taking about theme?? Other Android phone too have those so called Theme. I dare you to deny that MIUI 12 is a carbon copy of iOS. Just looked at how those so called functions like pull down from right top for control panel and top left for notifications. Not to mention the UI elements. Your bigotry is way bigger than the statue of liberty. Heck is even bigger that the whole China 🤦🏻‍♂️

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                  • Anonymous
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                  • 16 May 2021

                  Who ever bought a smartphone base on camera are totally idiot. I bought smartphone base on the performance (SoC, RAM, Storage and so on including the software update. Not because it had the best camera with some brand on it) Ask yourself, do you even took photos everyday or minutes?? If your answer is yes, it's time for you to go some kind of mental health check up. To be honest 😏

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                    3VA, 16 May 2021honestly miui is the worst ui i ever experiencedI used to say the same about Samsung's UI before One UI and Huawei's EMUI 9.

                    However, the evolutions have changed a lot, and now, I truly like Samsung's One UI, Huawei's EMUI 11, and Xiaomi MIUI 12. I think the one with the slickest looks goes to Vivo's OriginOS but I haven't tried that one myself.

                    Try a new UI. You have a point if you look at the old UI skins, but the new ones are different.

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                      • Anonymous
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                      • 16 May 2021

                      These partnerships usually mean little in the end anyway. Apple, Samsung and Google don't have these and they have the best phone cameras.

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                        Anonymous, 16 May 2021Xiaomi has great software. MIUI is the best.. The cartoon ... morehonestly miui is the worst ui i ever experienced

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                          Anonymous, 16 May 2021xiaomi with ryyb sensor?yes please. Their bigger sensor on ... moreleica is the one who provide glasses not sensor.. ryyb sensor is developed exclusively for huawei by some other company

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                            Anonymous, 16 May 2021Huawei phones use lenses made by a chinese company. Leica... moreBetter Than Sony baloney with cheap quality hardware and software

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                              r31ya, 16 May 2021Xiaomi have the top tier hardware. But compared to the bi... moreLol camera processing is already some of the best.
                              Samsung and Apple have their own issues with image processing

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                                YUKI93, 16 May 2021Exactly. The Mi 11 Ultra is a good example - it has stellar... moreXiaomi has great software.
                                MIUI is the best.. The cartoon look is from themes.
                                One can make it look like color OS, oxygen OS, emui, ios, stock android anything you want.
                                Most of your complains are non existent.
                                You are repeating same lies from 4 years back. Have you even used a xiaomi flagship in the past 2 years?

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                                  Anonymous, 16 May 2021Exactly, this partnerships will just bring increase phone p... moreNow the difference is not that big, but Xiaomi still noticeably behind the pack compared to the bigger players (Samsung, Pixel, Apple and old Huawei).
                                  Its not on the raw hardware difference. Its the tuning of the hardware and software processing, something that Leica could help.

                                  On why this matters? it's a difference that most reviewer will note and will affect whether those reviewer or influencer gonna recommend Xiaomi flagship over the big flagships. Especially now, where Mi-series priced very close to the big flagship pricing.

                                  That being said, Xiaomi severely need to work on that MIUI.
                                  There are several recent real world test (app load test and the like) where RealMe SD720 could be equal or even beating with Xiaomi SD732 where theoretically SD732 should have at least 10% lead is down to MIUI inefficiency.

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                                    • 16 May 2021

                                    Leica should start caring more about it's image then about the small amout of money some copy/paste "brands" could bring them.

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                                      • 16 May 2021

                                      xiaomi with ryyb sensor?yes please. Their bigger sensor on mi 11 ultra is still no match at night against a huawei .

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                                        • 16 May 2021

                                        r31ya, 16 May 2021Xiaomi have the top tier hardware. But compared to the bi... moreExactly, this partnerships will just bring increase phone prices. And in the end for nothing. Flagship phone cameras are already good, with not so big differences between them.