Tipster Digital Chat Station has revealed in a post on Chinese messaging platform Weibo that the Xiaomi 15 Ultra may have three different rear panel materials. company The current Xiaomi 14 Ultra has an aluminum frame. Its rear panel is of vegan leather. This smartphone may have Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 as its processor. It has a 2K resolution display with micro curves on the sides. Its quad camera unit may have a 50-megapixel primary camera and a new periscope camera.

Xiaomi 14 Ultra was launched at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in February this year. Its only variant with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB is priced at Rs 99,999. Smartphone shipments in the first half of the current year increased by 7.2 percent on year-on-year basis to about 69 million units. Smartphone shipments in the second quarter grew by about 3.2 percent to about 35 million units.

According to the report of market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), many new smartphones have been launched in the second quarter. Most of these were in the mid-premium and premium segments. However, shipments of entry-level smartphones (priced below Rs 8,400) were down 36 percent year-on-year in the second quarter. The market share of this segment has come down to around 14 percent from 22 percent in the same quarter last year. Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has the largest stake in this. After this there are Poco and Realme. Shipments in the budget segment of smartphones (priced around Rs 8,400 to Rs 16,800) have grown by about 8 percent. Xiaomi is at the forefront in this segment also. After this there are China’s Realme and Vivo. The entry-premium segment (priced around Rs 16,800 to Rs 33,500) has seen the highest increase of 42 percent. Oppo is at the forefront in this. After this there are Vivo and Samsung.