Only the Galaxy S25 Ultra will get a camera upgrade, S25 and S25+ to retain the same hardware

19 June 2024
This will be the fourth generation in a row with no camera upgrades.

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Samsung is gradually turning to apple. I've waited for years for samsung to come up with a great camera on the vanilla s series and all they do is just bringing the years old hardware to latest generation. At this point, you have more reason to upgrade your iphone to latest release than your samsung s series. I have a Xiaomi phone because i can't afford samsung s series. It's too expensive in my region. But no matter how good the hardware is on my Xiaomi, the software would never reach the same reliability on a samsung phone.
Samsung software is just better. I'm willing to argue that with you for a week! But samsung doesn't care much about the non ultras. If s24 had a great camera, i would stretch my pocket for it, but at this point its not worth over my 12x.
Now we hear that s25 will have the exact same hardware.
I'm willing to say it... Fuq you samsung

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    No problem, as long it´s powered by Snapdragon worldwide.

      Anonymous, 19 Jun 2024Zeiss does not make the lenses. Vivo and dony only have t... moreZeiss *HAS* actually made the lens for the periscope telephoto for the Vivo X100 Ultra (as well as for the Vivo X100 Pro). In the past, you would've been correct that the Zeiss collaboration was only for the Zeiss T* lens coating, but that's not been true, at least when talking about Vivo's Pro and Ultra flagships' telephotos' optics, since this year.

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        Darth Caesium, 19 Jun 2024Which the market should reject, because variable telephotos... moreSony designs the periscope and Lg Innotek is responsible for the assembling.
        The 4.4 - 9.0x module will not be used , nobody besides sony wants optical zoom bevause it costs more than using 2 fixed cameras.

        Doing it in small scale is very high engineering task. Hard to achieve.
        None of other want to invest money on it.

        Sony may one day do 70-200mm be ause they have lens with this same range.

          Keeping the same camera hardware for 4 years is a disgrace.

            PorkHotdog, 19 Jun 2024Name me one phone that is better than the 24ultraS26 Ultra.

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              Darth Caesium, 19 Jun 2024The Vivo X100 Pro (which actually is as cheap as the Samsun... moreZeiss does not make the lenses.
              Vivo and dony only have the coating .

                PorkHotdog, 19 Jun 2024Name me one phone that is better than the 24ultraThe Vivo X100 Pro (which actually is as cheap as the Samsung Galaxy S24+), the Vivo X100 Ultra, the Vivo X Fold3 Pro (definitely *THE* foldable of the year), the Oppo Find X7 Ultra, the Xiaomi 14 Ultra, etc.

                The Vivo X100 Ultra specifically uses a gigantic 1/1.4"-type, 200MP Samsung ISOCELL HP9 sensor co-engineered by Samsung and Vivo together, paired with an 85mm lens developed by Zeiss, the famous German optics company who are so highly valued that they develop all of the optics for ASML's EUV machines for use in cutting edge processors. Get this: that Samsung sensor is basically 99% as good as your S24 Ultra's MAIN CAMERA, and then is somehow instead used on a telephoto that has a 3.7× optical zoom, and the sensor crops taken from the 16-to-1 pixel binning process can be used for up to 14.8× zoom without any significant loss in quality. And of course, this is BEFORE you get into digital zoom territory. Your S24 Ultra's main camera has no need for 4× zoom coming out of it when iy has a 3× telephoto, so that 200MP there is just a useless gimmick. This Vivo X100 Ultra uses it in an extremely meaningful way, and it outdoes your puny little phone by every metric imaginable.

                  Darth Caesium, 19 Jun 2024Even the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra will be disappointing com... moreName me one phone that is better than the 24ultra

                    PorkHotdog, 19 Jun 2024A lot of poors in the comments here. I will upgrade to the ... moreEven the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra will be disappointing compared to what else is available in the market. Just take a look at what the likes of Vivo, Oppo, Xiaomi and Huawei are offering at this price range. Literally the only thing Samsung has going for it is the stylus and Gorilla Glass Armour — which might not even be exclusive to Samsung's devices next year.

                      A lot of poors in the comments here. I will upgrade to the 25U as I've done every year since note4. If you can't afford to upgrade don't hate fr

                        Anonymous, 19 Jun 2024Nobody wants to see pimples in 50MP. That's why there&... moreMaybe people should care about personal hygiene first then. All of the complaints I've heard about this kind of thing come from either the specific crowd of teenage girls who obsessively care about the smallest of imperfections yet somehow can't clean their face (and sure, it's not 100% avoidable at that age, but it's at least 90% avoidable) or the neckbeards that would look bad on a camera regardless of the resolution and regardless of whether it was a Full Frame sensor, an APS-H sensor, an APS-C sensor, a 1.5"-type sensor, a 4/3"-type sensor, a µ4/3"-type sensor, a 1"-type sensor, a 2/3"-type sensor (a.k.a a 1/1.56"-type sensor), a 1/2"-type sensor, a 1/2.5"-type sensor, a 1/3"-type sensor, a 1/3.5"-type sensor, a 1/4"-type sensor, a... etc.

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                          Darth Caesium, 19 Jun 2024Same. The weirdest and most annoying part is that Vivo can&... moreNobody wants to see pimples in 50MP. That's why there's not much market for this.

                            Anonymous, 19 Jun 2024Imx858 front cam?Praying for this.

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                              Anonymous, 19 Jun 2024I kinda wish all models would get a 50MP selfie camera with... moreImx858 front cam?

                                Anonymous, 19 Jun 2024I kinda wish all models would get a 50MP selfie camera with... moreSame. The weirdest and most annoying part is that Vivo can't even have 50MP selfie cameras in their cheaper flagship phones (the Vivo X100 and Vivo X100 Pro both use a 32MP selfie camera; only the Vivo X100 Ultra uses a 50MP selfie camera), but they will happily have it in their mid-rangers.

                                If Sony announces a 50MP 1/2.5"-type sensor with dual-layer stacked CMOS technology (same kind as the one found on the LYT-T808), and an OEM uses it on a phone as a selfie camera, I will happily eat my boots, all of them. This would be nuts to have, it would absolutely revolutionise selfie cameras on phones.

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                                  I kinda wish all models would get a 50MP selfie camera with autofocus. Vivo and Tecno can do it in their midrangers, so surely Samsung can do it in their flagships?

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                                    • 19 Jun 2024

                                    Samsung is charging premium amount for s series but not delivering the the most modern cutting edge technology.i got no reason to upgrade from s22+ to s25+.I will go for Chinese brands atleast I am getting the best latest and cutting technology.bye bye samsung for making people fool for years.

                                      Anton .el PAPI., 19 Jun 2024Then the fanboys say that Samsung doesn't imitate Appl... moreThere needs to be a third company that is a meaningful competitor. We're at a time in which the smartphone market is ruled by a duopoly, that being Samsung and Apple. We need someone else to also compete with them on a competitive and global level at lots of different price brackets. It doesn't matter who, it just needs to happen, and then Samsung and Apple will both feel the pinch and start innovating once again. Variable telephotos with continuous optical zoom and a long zoom range, for example, would completely break the current market if they're on even a semi-popular product in relation to total sales globally (sorry Sony, but you are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things and fail these criteria). Same would go for variable focal aperture (again, what is the global percentage of Huawei or Xiaomi users, for example? Also, Xiaomi is very China- and India-centric, and Huawei is confined to just China).

                                      There also quite frankly isn't a lot left to do hardware-wise that isn't camera-related or display-related. AirJet Mini chips could be used in the future to provide almost completely silent active cooling that can be done in conjunction with an IP68 rating, and new silicon-carbon battery tech —and solid-state battery tech, but that should arrive in consumer electronics in the mid-2030s by the sound of things — and stacked battery tech will massively increase battery capacity, but apart from that, I honestly can't think of anything else innovative on the hardware-side that isn't to do with cameras or displays, at least not for bar phones. Rollable phones are a whole different beast though, and they could revolutionise phones altogether.

                                        Then the fanboys say that Samsung doesn't imitate Apple at all!! Even their strategies they want to imitate... That's why we are stuck in the same thing

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