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Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S to get Mi 8-like camera performance
Last updated on Jun 07, 2018, 12:27 am
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With an overall score of 99, Xiaomi's latest flagship, the Mi 8, surpassed the DxOMark camera scores of iPhone X and matched the results of Galaxy S9+.
And now, according to Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun, the company's bezel-less Mi Mix 2S smartphone will get the same camera performance as the latest Mi 8 via an upcoming firmware update.
Here's more.
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Technicality
First things first, what are DxOMark ratings?
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DxOMark is a rating website owned by DxOMark, an image processing software company based in France.
Like Geekbench is a platform that rates chipset performance, DxOMark tests smartphones' camera (also dedicated cameras) on several parameters of photography and videography.
Thus, an overall photo or video score is a representation of DxOMark's weighted score system that converts a number of sub-scores into a single number.
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Information
Mi Mix 2S and Mi 8 have same rear-camera hardware
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Interestingly, both the phones sport a vertical dual rear-camera setup comprising two 12-megapixel sensors with 1.4-micron pixel size. One of the sensors comes with an f/1.8 aperture, wide-angle lens, and four-axis OIS, the other sensor offers an f/2.4 aperture, telephoto lens and support for optical zoom.
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Why the difference?
Same hardware but differently optimized software
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The Mi Mix 2S received an overall score of 97 as against Mi 8's score of 99.
However, what's surprising is that Mi 8 sports the same rear camera hardware that the Mix 2S debuted in March.
Then why is there a difference in the scores?
The answer lies in software optimization and how Xiaomi has tweaked the camera performance on both the devices.
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Slight improvements
What is different on the software front?
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The default camera app on Mix 2S offers artificial intelligence (AI) based scene recognition feature, dynamic Bokeh, smart artifact, and face recognition.
With these features, the Mix 2S got a photo score of 101 - same as the iPhone X.
However, DxOMark noted that the Mi 8 offers some improvements over Mix 2S, including better low-light photography and an enhanced optical zooming experience.
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Rankings
How do other phones perform on the DxO benchmark?
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With an optimized camera software, the Xiaomi Mi 8 bags a photo score of 105 and a video recording score of 88 on the DxOMark scale.
Interestingly, with its triple-camera setup, Huawei P20 Pro received a photo score of 114 and video score of 98 to lead the DxOMark charts.
Coming in second is the HTC U12+ with 106 (photo) and 95 (video) scores.
