Magnets make anything cooler, which is why Xiaomi’s Modular ... to a large digital camera. Xiaomi also says that the lens instantly connects to the phone, thanks to two connector pins on the ...

The Xiaomi Modular Optical System is a polished prototype ... for data transfer enable you to shoot photos in the phone’s camera app exactly as if you were using the regular built-in camera.

Named the Xiaomi Modular Optical System, this prototype kit consists of a phone with a magnetic pogo pin that allows a camera lens to be snapped on. A prototype Xiaomi 15 phone with the company's ...

Xiaomi has officially unveiled its innovative modular optical system at MWC 2025, introducing a custom version of the Xiaomi 15 that sports a detachable 35mm lens. This groundbreaking approach to ...

That's the idea behind Xiaomi’s Modular Optical System (or MOS). MOS was on display here at MWC 2025, and the idea behind this concept device is that you can attach compact camera lenses onto ...

Thanks to that magnetic clip on camera lens, this is more or less a modular camera smartphone. It has a magnetic ring on the back that allows you to attach a custom camera module with a larger ...

One potential challenge? It’d be tricky to design a case for a phone that supports modular lenses like these. There would need to be a large cut-out for the camera lens, or the LaserLink and ...

MWC 2025 has just concluded in Barcelona. While hardly a vintage edition of the world's biggest mobile phone show, there were some interesting new camera concepts on display, with the Xiaomi Modular ...

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