Among the first-line mobile phone manufacturers, Xiaomi’s accumulation in imaging technology is relatively thin. In order to comply with the trend of consumers like to take pictures, in order to compete with other manufacturers, Xiaomi has accelerated to catch up in the past two years.
On August 7th, at the Xiaomi Future Imaging Technology Communication Meeting, Xiaomi President Lin Bin announced that the upcoming Redmi will be equipped for the first time with 64 million ultra-clear cameras, and < /span> Xiaomi will also cooperate with Samsung to develop a 100 million-pixel camera for the world premiere.
The new 64 million ultra clear camera on Redmi’s new machine uses Samsung’s ISOCELL sensor. The sensor was released by Samsung in May this year, improving the color reduction to reduce the loss of light during the photo process, resulting in brighter, more accurate color photos.
The 64 million camera has a resolution of 9248×6936, which is 34% higher than 48 million, which is equivalent to nearly 2 times the 8K resolution and 17 times the 2K resolution. You can shoot a huge poster with a height of 3.26 meters.
According to Lin Bin, the size of a single photo is about 19M. The expansion of photos requires the improvement of mobile phone memory. The transmission of photos will also require a faster network. The popularity of 5G networks can satisfy this.
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The mobile phone battle in the second half of the mobile Internet has largely become a camera battle.
In the past few years, first-line Android manufacturers such as Huami OV Samsung have continuously upgraded their camera technology and used it as the main selling point to win the hearts of young people. The Huawei P series is famous for taking pictures in high definition. The P20 and P30 series are the most clear mobile phones in the world during the same period. The OPPO and vivo flagship machines are also favored by girls because of their self-portraits.
Among the first-line mobile phone manufacturers, Xiaomi’s accumulation in imaging technology is relatively thin. In order to comply with the trend of consumers like to take pictures, in order to compete with other manufacturers, Xiaomi has accelerated to catch up in the past two years.
According to Lin Bin, Xiaomi set up a camera team two years ago, which was responsible for hardware development. Then in May last year, Xiaomi set up the camera department, joined the engineers in the algorithm and AI, and became a research and development team with both hardware and software. At present, Xiaomi has an algorithm team of more than 1,000 people. The number of related patent applications in 2016-2018 is 681, ranking 11th in the world and 5th in China, ranking first among Chinese mobile phone manufacturers.
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Pixel is the most basic and intuitive competition in camera competition. Before entering the second half of the mobile Internet, Nokia released the 41 million-pixel 808 PureView in 2012, but the 8 million and 12 million pixels are the flagship configuration for a long time. In 2014, the iPhone 6 rear camera was only 800. CMOS.
After entering the second half of the mobile Internet, the Chinese mobile phone market has also switched from “China Cool Alliance” (ZTE, Huawei, Cool, Lenovo) to “Huawei OV” (Huawei, Xiaomi, In the era of OPPO and vivo, the upgrade of the flagship smartphone pixel has been greatly accelerated. Chinese manufacturers gradually began to lead the trend of the camera, the flagship camera main camera gradually increased to 16 million, 24 million pixels.
Since Huawei released the first 48 million main camera phones in December last year, the first-tier manufacturers’ flagship machines have adopted the same configuration for half a year. Now, the 64-megapixel main camera phone is coming.
The promotion of mobile phone pixels is an irreversible process and a trend that all first-tier manufacturers will follow. At the communication meeting, Lin Bin said that Xiaomi would go in the direction of ultra clear. But as the number of pixels continues to increase, the pixel changes are more like a promotional highlight and selling point, and the intuitive improvement of the user experience is gradually decreasing.
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