Xiaomi’s 17 Ultra Leica edition has a rotatable camera zoom

Xiaomi utilized the Christmas play to motorboat its apical flagship telephone for the year, the 17 Ultra. It drops the other rear show that’s the cardinal trading constituent of the 17 Pro, but alternatively adds successful the action of a manual zoom ring, built straight into the phone’s camera island.

That rotating zoom is only included successful the new Leica version of the phone, which besides packs touches for illustration the Leica reddish dot logo and a textured decorativeness connected the phone’s sides. The ringing tin beryllium reprogrammed for vulnerability aliases attraction if you prefer, and the Leica type has a fewer civilization package touches too, for illustration unsocial movie simulation effects, and beingness accessories for illustration a lens headdress and branded cleaning cloth.

Otherwise, the 17 Ultra by Leica is identical to the regular 17 Ultra. It’s powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, pinch up to 1TB of retention and 16GB of RAM. The OLED show is big, astatine 6.9 inches, and truthful is the silicon-carbon battery, astatine 6,800mAh.

Like each Xiaomi’s Ultra phones, its cameras are the existent focus. The 50-megapixel main camera uses a 1-inch-type sensor and a wide f/1.7 aperture, pinch selfie and ultrawide cameras astatine the aforesaid resolution.

The bigger alteration is to the telephoto — alternatively of the 2 abstracted zoom lenses connected the 15 Ultra, the caller telephone has a azygous 200-megapixel periscope camera that tin scope from 3.2x to 4.3x zoom. More impressively, it has continuous optical zoom throughout, a instrumentality first employed successful phones by the Sony Xperia 1 IV, pinch a adaptable aperture of f/2.4-3.0.

The 17 Ultra starts astatine ¥6,999 (about $1,000), pinch the Leica exemplary astatine ¥7,999 (about $1,140). Xiaomi has confirmed plans for a world launch of the 17 Ultra successful 2026, but we don’t cognize erstwhile precisely — aliases whether the Leica version will beryllium included. The Xiaomi 15 and 15 Ultra sewage an world rollout astatine MWC 2025 successful March, truthful a repetition whitethorn beryllium imaginable successful the coming months.