New Delhi, June 29 -- Another day, another smartphone. Except this time, it's much more of a camera than a smartphone. With it, I stopped thinking about playing games, texting my best friends, or even looking up the stock market. It instead became all about the photographs I could capture. Yes, it's the Xiaomi 17 Ultra, and with Leica's help, they have created one of the best camera-centric smartphones ever.

​I'll admit that I hadn't been this excited about a Xiaomi flagship smartphone in a while. In previous years, Xiaomi's 'Ultra' had paled in comparison to Oppo's and Vivo's. With the stakes even higher and prices rising to astronomical levels, could the Xiaomi 17 Ultra prove it is the one to beat? It took me just one weekend to ...