{"id":333935,"date":"2026-03-07T14:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333935\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T14:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:56:17","slug":"only-leica-would-make-a-phone-with-a-lens-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333935\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Leica Would Make a Phone With a Lens Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph___lU_Ty paragraph-paragraph10___Jilbr contentParagraph___u9L2Q paragraph___bcvQh\">It used to take a ton of legwork to get a smartphone to behave like a Leica camera. It meant either buying the German company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highsnobiety.com\/p\/leica-lux-grip-iphone\/\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$329 \u201cLUX Grip\u201d<\/a> accessory, which added a manual camera button to an iPhone, or buying one of the two \u201cLeitzphones&#8221; that Leica released in the last half-decade. The issue with the latter is that those phones were exclusively available in Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph___lU_Ty paragraph-paragraph10___Jilbr contentParagraph___u9L2Q paragraph___bcvQh\">Now, Leica is taking its smartphones global. Well, almost.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph___lU_Ty paragraph-paragraph10___Jilbr contentParagraph___u9L2Q paragraph___bcvQh\">The latest Leica Leitzphone is produced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highsnobiety.com\/p\/daniel-arshams-xiaomi-release-date-price\/\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese tech company<\/a> Xiaomi, while the prior two generations were produced by Japanese company Sharp. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph___lU_Ty paragraph-paragraph10___Jilbr contentParagraph___u9L2Q paragraph___bcvQh\">The good news: the next Leitzphone makes use of the computing power of the third-biggest smartphone maker in the world. The bad news: it blocks this Leitzphone from releasing stateside where Xiaomi has yet to hit the market.<\/p>\n<p>Your Highsnobiety privacy settings have blocked this Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>Enable All Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph___lU_Ty paragraph-paragraph10___Jilbr contentParagraph___u9L2Q paragraph___bcvQh\">But for everyone else, this is easily the most accessible Leica phone to date, <a href=\"https:\/\/leica-camera.com\/de-DE\/mobile\/leitzphone-powered-by-xiaomi\/jetzt-kaufen?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">available everywhere else<\/a> for \u00a31,700\/\u20ac1,999 (around $2,300).<\/p>\n<p>Your Highsnobiety privacy settings have blocked this Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>Enable All Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph___lU_Ty paragraph-paragraph10___Jilbr contentParagraph___u9L2Q paragraph___bcvQh\">The Leitzphone is, essentially, the top-shelf Xiaomi 17 Ultra with a large camera system on the back powered by Leica, maker of world-famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highsnobiety.com\/p\/leica-q3-monochrom\/\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">analog cameras<\/a>. That system includes a 200 megapixel telephoto camera, a 120x digital zoom, 8K video recordings at 30fps, and a silver camera ring that spins to adjust the lens, focal length, focus, and bokeh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph___lU_Ty paragraph-paragraph10___Jilbr contentParagraph___u9L2Q paragraph___bcvQh\">This is a level of performance typically reserved for digital cameras includes all the accessories you\u2019d expect from them, like a lens cap, lens cleaning cloth, and a wrist strap. You won\u2019t find any of those in your iPhone box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph___lU_Ty paragraph-paragraph10___Jilbr contentParagraph___u9L2Q paragraph___bcvQh\">Highsnobiety has affiliate marketing partnerships, which means we may receive a commission from your purchase. Want to shop the products our editors actually love? Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highsnobiety.com\/the-hs-style-guide\/\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HS Shopping<\/a> for recs on all things fashion, footwear, and beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It used to take a ton of legwork to get a smartphone to behave like a Leica camera.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,80],"class_list":["post-333935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}