12S Ultra: Xiaomi's latest top-end smartphone costs more than US$500 per unit to produce - Notebookcheck.net

The 12S Ultra can be described as Xiaomi's new camera behemoth in more ways than one. The OEM has also sourced the highest-end display for its latest flagship, driven by the fastest processor Qualcomm can provide. Now, the cost of packing all of this and more…

Xiaomi introduced its new 12S Ultra Android smartphone as a super-flagship in many, many senses of the term - yet started it at a nearly reasonable 5,999 yuan (~US$888) for an 8GB RAM base model. Now… [+1590 chars]

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