{"id":454570,"date":"2026-03-03T02:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/454570\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T02:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:28:11","slug":"chinas-xiaomi-to-take-leica-smartphone-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/454570\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Xiaomi to take Leica smartphone global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/companies\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Companies<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">The Leitzphone was previously made by Sharp, exclusively for Japan<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20260302N Xiaomi Leica\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Xiaomi announced its new Leica-branded smartphone in Barcelona last week. (Photo by Eiki Hayashi)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BARCELONA, Spain &#8212; Chinese mobile device giant Xiaomi will manufacture a Leica-branded smartphone in partnership with the German high-end camera maker for sale in global markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Companies The Leitzphone was previously made by Sharp, exclusively for Japan Xiaomi announced its new Leica-branded smartphone in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[8383,3611,83122,2306,4429,60783,86,56,54,55,16608],"class_list":["post-454570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-chinas","tag-global","tag-leica","tag-mobile","tag-smartphone","tag-take","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-xiaomi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}