Xiaomi's Mi 10 Ultra has 120x zoom and can fully charge in 23 minutes

It's a beast of a phone.
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Stan Schroeder
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Xiaomi's Mi 10 Ultra has 120x zoom and can fully charge in 23 minutes
That's a lot of zoom. Credit: xiaomi

Xiaomi is celebrating its 10th birthday in the coolest possible way: By launching a new flagship smartphone.

The Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra is an absolute beast of a phone in terms of specs. It has a 6.67-inch curvy OLED display with FHD+ resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate and a 240Hz touch sampling rate, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor, as well as 8/12/16GB of RAM and 128/256/512GB of storage.

On the front, the 20-megapixel selfie camera is located in a punch hole on the top left. On the back, there's a quad camera with a 48-megapixel primary sensor, a 20-megapixel ultra-wide sensor, and a 12-megapixel portrait lens. The camera system features a 120x hybrid zoom with the help of a periscope lens, and can record 8K video at 24 fps, as well as slow-motion video at 960 fps.


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The Mi 10 Ultra packs a very powerful camera system on the back. Credit: xiaomi

Finally, the phone has a 4,500mAh battery with 120W wired, 50W wireless, and 10W reverse wireless charging. Xiaomi claims that the phone's wired charging will get you from zero to 41 percent in 5 minutes, and from zero to 100 percent in a blazing-fast 23 minutes.

It also includes 5G connectivity, dual stereo speakers, an in-display fingerprint sensor, face unlocking capability, liquid cooling, and an IR blaster.

Design-wise, the phone looks like any other modern smartphone on the front, but the massive bump on the back makes it look like a standalone compact camera. And if the regular Obsidian Black and Mercury Silver colors aren't exciting enough for you, there's also a much cooler Transparent Edition that shows the phone's innards.

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This camera bump is making a statement. Credit: xiaomi

The Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra will be available in China on Aug. 16, at a price of RMB 5,299 ($764). There's no word on international availability yet.

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Stan Schroeder
Stan Schroeder
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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.

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