A poll on Weibo not long ago made me feel the "power" of Xiaomi again. In this poll, Xiaomi MIX Alpha was rated as "representing China's highest technology" by a large score. In terms of mobile phone products, even Huawei Mate X is defeated.
Perhaps encouraged by the results of this vote, Lu Weibing, President of Xiaomi China, later dissed Huawei’s imaging technology, believing that "Friends V30” needs to “continue to be polished” before it can “catch up with the photography level of our future Note series.”
Although this statement was refuted by "Friendly Businessmen", the executives of "Friendly Businessmen" even published a special article to popularize the reasons why the IMX600 photosensitive element RYYB is advanced. When questioned, Lu Weibing not only failed to refute the opponent technically, but also brought out the Samsung 108MP sensor he used to "defeat" the opponent.
In addition to claiming that his 100-megapixel product will "kill the list" after this year, Lu Weibing also emphasized:
So, Xiaomi What is the difference between Huawei's "participation in customization" and "exclusive period" and the IMX600 that Huawei exclusively customized from Sony? Is the "100 million pixel sensor" that Lu Weibing said "Xiaomi participated in customizing" capable of "beating" Huawei P40 Pro?
Although Lu Weibing and many fans have repeatedly "popularized science" that Xiaomi's "participation in customization" and Huawei's "exclusive customization" are the same thing, we can see the difference from the photosensitive element itself: Xiaomi The "customized" photosensitive elements are actually only different from the products sold on the market in size and number of pixels. Huawei's IMX600 is deeply customized from the photosensitive element itself and is jointly developed by Huawei/Sony/Leica.
Huawei’s IMX600 has been exclusive since the P20 series. Even Sony itself has not been able to use this lens for nearly two years. Only about half a year after Samsung’s 108MP main camera was first launched by Xiaomi, it was revealed that the Samsung S20 series will be equipped with this lens. It is even reported that Realme is also developing a 108MP camera.
According to media exposure, Huawei P40 Pro will be equipped with a 52MP 1/1.33-inch outsole customized main camera. This new customized sensor has a pixel size of 1.12μm, and the 16-in-1 can even reach 4.48 μm.
In addition, compared with the Huawei Mate 30 Pro, which is tied by Xiaomi's 100-megapixel camera, the Huawei P40 Pro makes up for the shortcomings in the zoom project by adding a medium-telephoto 12MP portrait lens. .
Xiaomi mainly relies on zoom and wide angle to equal Huawei Mate 30 Pro 5G’s billion-level pixels. After Huawei P40 Pro makes up for its shortcomings, it is afraid that it will lose even more miserably. This has not been taken into account. Improvement of the 52MP main camera.
After Huawei, OPPO also began to customize sensors from Sony. It is said to be an exclusively customized outsole sensor, the kind that makes people awesome. According to media exposure, OPPO Find X2 is equipped with a sensor customized by OPPO from Sony. This sensor is named IMX689. The hardware has 48 million pixels, 1.25μm, and the photosensitive element size is also 1/1.33 inches.
Compared with OPPO, Xiaomi, which has weak tuning, is not sure that it can beat the 48MP of OPPO Find X2 with its "100 million pixels", which means that Xiaomi may even be surpassed by OPPO.
Not long ago, Howe also released a 1/1.3-inch mobile phone CMOS: 48 million pixels. This means that there are already 1/1.3-inch outsole CMOS for sale in the open market.
In addition to Samsung's 108MP, Huawei's customized 52MP sensor from Sony, OPPO's customized 48MP sensor from Sony, and Howe's publicly released 48MP sensor are all 1/1.3 inches in size. To a certain extent, this means that if Xiaomi no longer focuses on technology research and development and only talks fast, it may be left behind by more "friends" in taking pictures. When the time comes, it may not only be Samsung and Huawei that "beat" Xiaomi.