Xiaomi 14 Ultra to ditch dual aperture for variable aperture

The Xiaomi 14 Ultra is coming next year, and it seems like it will ditch dual aperture in favor of variable aperture. That is a move that was more or less expected, but one of the most prominent tipsters just confirmed it.

The Xiaomi 14 Ultra will offer variable aperture instead of dual aperture

This information comes from Digital Chat Station, one of the best-known tipsters from China. On Weibo, he said that the Xiaomi 14 Ultra will feature four cameras on the back. In fact, Xiaomi plans to utilize four 50-megapixel cameras back there.

Now, the Xiaomi 13 Ultra also offers four cameras on the back. On the main camera, the phone supported a dual aperture, the phone (and user) could jump between an f/1.6 and f/4.0 aperture.

That’s great, better than nothing, but Huawei offers a 10-stop variable aperture on its phones, and provides some of the best camera smartphones on the market. Variable aperture is immensely useful if utilized properly, as the phone can easily adapt to various lighting conditions.

Will it be a 10-stop variable aperture, to match Huawei? We’ll see

Well, Xiaomi will push variable aperture on its flagship smartphone too. The Xiaomi 14 Ultra is said to support a multi-stop variable aperture, but we still don’t know the details, though. Will it be a 3-stop offering, a 4-stop offering, or perhaps a 10-stop offering? Well, we’ll have to wait and see.

Xiaomi already announced two Xiaomi 14 flagship-grade smartphones, the Xiaomi 14 and Xiaomi 14 Pro. Those two devices have yet to launch globally, which will likely happen in Q1 next year.

The Xiaomi 14 Ultra, on the other hand, is a different story. That phone will arrive later on. The Xiaomi 13 Ultra launched in April last year, and it’s possible the Xiaomi 14 Ultra will follow a year later, if not a bit sooner than that.

That device will almost certainly be fueled by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 too, but we still don’t know the details, other than the SoC, and the camera info we mentioned. Well, we also expect Android 14 with HyperOS on top of it, but that’s a given.