Xiaomi and Leica came together to work on smartphone cameras in 2022. It seemed like a perfect marriage where Xiaomi aimed to get some pie from the premium segment while Leica, the legendary camera maker, was getting inroads to work on smartphone cameras. Imagine an iconic camera maker now working with a smartphone manufacturer to fit all the camera prowess into a compact factor, smaller than a point-and-shoot.
They managed it, and Xiaomi 12S…