However, early last year, reports emerged that the ambitious project had officially been canned, with up to around 600 employees given their marching orders or being retrenched within the company.

Xiaomi, which produces smartphones and consumer electronics, delivered 135,000 E.V.s last year after tapping China’s robust manufacturing supply chain.

At MWC, we got our first glimpse of the SU7 Ultra, a performance variant of Xiaomi's astonishingly successful SU7.

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The Xiaomi Pad 7 series are two well-performing, lightweight 11-inch tablets. There’s an excellent new keyboard that performs well, though it is clearly a design clone.

The Xiaomi 15 Ultra's incredible camera specification has us really excited. Can the phone lived up to our very high expectations. We find out.

On paper, the Xiaomi 15 Ultra offers a lot of great specs. Powerful Leica-tuned cameras, including an absurd 200MP telephoto lens, a large battery, and all the performance of the new Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. However, like all Xiaomi phones, there’s a big emphasis on the own-brand software, rather than a cleaner variation of Android.

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With uncompromising camera hardware that puts every rival in the shade, the Xiaomi 15 Ultra is as good as it gets for phone photography

The Xiaomi 15 is available in the UK and Europe starting at £849 (€999). The Xiaomi 15 Ultra will set you back £1,299 (€1,499). The Xiaomi 15 Ultra Photography Kit costs an extra £179 (€199).