Xiaomi’s 17 Extremely Leica version has a rotatable digital camera zoom

Xiaomi used the Christmas interval to launch its prime flagship cellphone for the 12 months, the 17 Extremely. It drops the additional rear show that’s the important thing promoting level of the 17 Professional, however as an alternative provides within the choice of a handbook zoom ring, constructed immediately into the cellphone’s digital camera island.

That rotating zoom is simply included within the new Leica version of the cellphone, which additionally packs touches just like the Leica crimson dot emblem and a textured end on the cellphone’s sides. The ring might be reprogrammed for publicity or focus in case you want, and the Leica model has just a few customized software program touches too, like distinctive movie simulation results, and bodily equipment like a lens cap and branded cleansing material.

In any other case, the 17 Extremely by Leica is similar to the common 17 Extremely. It’s powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, with as much as 1TB of storage and 16GB of RAM. The OLED show is large, at 6.9 inches, and so is the silicon-carbon battery, at 6,800mAh.

Like all Xiaomi’s Extremely telephones, its cameras are the true focus. The 50-megapixel principal digital camera makes use of a 1-inch-type sensor and a large f/1.7 aperture, with selfie and ultrawide cameras on the identical decision.

The larger change is to the telephoto — as an alternative of the 2 separate zoom lenses on the 15 Extremely, the brand new cellphone has a single 200-megapixel periscope digital camera that may vary from 3.2x to 4.3x zoom. Extra impressively, it has steady optical zoom all through, a trick first employed in telephones by the Sony Xperia 1 IV, with a variable aperture of f/2.4-3.0.

The 17 Extremely begins at ¥6,999 (about $1,000), with the Leica mannequin at ¥7,999 (about $1,140). Xiaomi has confirmed plans for a worldwide launch of the 17 Extremely in 2026, however we don’t know when precisely — or whether or not the Leica version can be included. The Xiaomi 15 and 15 Extremely obtained a global rollout at MWC 2025 in March, so a repeat could also be attainable within the coming months.