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The Leica Camera app from the latest flagship Xiaomi 12S Ultra has been released for free, but it can break your smartphone’s camera
At the presentation of Xiaomi 12S smartphones, Xiaomi introduced a new camera application, Leica Camera, developed in collaboration with Leica. This application has received a set of various functions and filters.
Despite the fact that the Leica Camera app was created for the new Xiaomi 12S series smartphones, a group of enthusiastic developers have already managed to extract the APK file of the application from the firmware of new smartphones and made it available for free download.
The watermark on the finished photo is made in the style of Leica with the company logo, an indication of the model on which the shooting was carried out, and basic characteristics such as ISO, shutter speed and aperture.
You can download the APK file from this link, but be careful. The editors of iXBT.com tried to install the application on Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro. As a result, Leica Camera replaced the standard camera application and refused to open. The situation was saved only by the fact that, by coincidence, a few minutes later, the final MIUI 13 update based on Android 12 arrived on the smartphone, which returned the standard camera application. Otherwise, the smartphone would have to be reset to factory settings.
The description of the APK file explicitly states: “The application may not work on global ROM or Chinese ROM for some devices.”
As we already reported, the flagship smartphone Xiaomi 12S Ultra with a new camera has already gone on sale in China.

Phones
Even in a gaming smartphone, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 cannot catch up with the Apple A17 Pro. Tests of the new Qualcomm platform have appeared

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 platform is expected to be presented in a month, and more and more test results for this SoC are appearing on the Internet. The new one is interesting because the platform was tested inside the new generation gaming smartphone Asus ROG Phone.
In Geekbench 6, the device scored 2213 and 7084 points in single-threaded and multi-threaded modes, respectively. This is significantly more than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 shows, but the new SoC Apple A17 Pro is still ahead with a score of about 2900 and 7200 points.
Moreover, if you cool the iPhone 15 Pro Max with an external fan, the result will be even higher: about 3000 and 7800 points. However, this only shows that the new iPhones do not have high-quality cooling, and in reality no one will carry an iPhone fan with them anyway.
Let us remember that Geekbench in this form is a benchmark of the processor part only. As for the GPU, yesterday we saw how the A17 Pro was significantly inferior to even the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in one of the tests.
Phones
Is OnePlus preparing another hit smartphone? OnePlus Ace 3 will receive a 5500 mAh battery with support for 100-watt charging, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and an improved camera

The OnePlus Ace 2 Pro smartphone, recently introduced in China, instantly became a hit, but the company is already preparing an improved version called OnePlus Ace 3. The characteristics of the new product were revealed by the famous insider Digital Chat Station.
It will still be based on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. The battery capacity will be 5500 mAh and will support 100 W charging. OnePlus Ace 3 will also have a 6.74-inch screen with a resolution of 1.5K, and the main camera will have IMX890 (50 MP), IMX709 (32 MP, with a telephoto lens providing 2x optical zoom) and OmniVision OV08D10 (8 MP) sensors ).
Phones
“Victory in the first battle” – more than 410,000 Redmi Note 13 series smartphones were sold in just an hour

Sales of the Redmi Note 13 Pro series smartphones began this morning, which includes the Note 13, Note 13 Pro and Note 13 Pro+ models. They turned out to be very popular.
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun announced that sales of Redmi Note 13, Note 13 Pro and Note 13 Pro+ smartphones exceeded 410,000 units in just 1 hour, and congratulated the Redmi team, as well as all fans for their support.
Victory in the first battle! Sales of the #Note13 series exceeded 410,000 units within an hour.
Lei Jun
Redmi Note 13 is equipped with a single-chip Dimensity 6080 system. Note 13 Pro is the first smartphone to use the second-generation Snapdragon 7s SoC, and Note 13 Pro+ is the first to receive a single-chip Dimensity 7200-Ultra system. The last two are both 4nm process technology.
The Note 13 Pro smartphones use a new 1.5K resolution screen. However, the Note 13 Pro has a flat screen, while the Note 13 Pro+ has a curved screen. Both smartphones received a 200-megapixel camera.
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