Samsung is working on a major camera upgrade for its next-gen flagships
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- 13 Dec 2025
Cake, 13 Dec 2025Then why'd you buy the S25+ ?I bought it because I like OneUI but was getting tired of holding a not very endurant S23U brick in my hand and, even if the s25’s camera wasn’t great, it wouldn’t be the end of the world (my phone is just a secondary camera).
Still, I was expecting better camera quality than that. Contrast, autofocus and details are really disappointing and clearly worse than on my S23U
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- Bobi7x7
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- 13 Dec 2025
They should better work on a 200MP zoom lens....
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- Mobilemaster
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- 13 Dec 2025
TomatoSauce, 13 Dec 2025That is not how it worksMP count is also important, especially when it comes at UW camera, so you may have more details.
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- 13 Dec 2025
Mobilemaster, 13 Dec 2025It doesn't sound so great, only 12 MP...That is not how it works
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Anonymous, 13 Dec 2025That is the limitation of this technology. The occlusion ad... more*the obvious advantage
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- 13 Dec 2025
Mobilemaster, 13 Dec 2025It doesn't sound so great, only 12 MP...That is the limitation of this technology. The occlusion advantage is that you get a clear and accurate image no matter how fast the subject is moving. No fake processing needed.
I can see them adding this as a secondary wide or possibly 3x sensor. The problem is obviously that it'll probably increase the phone price by 2-300 bucks. So maybe not. Maybe it'll be for some "action focused" flagship?
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- 13 Dec 2025
Yeah, same marketing promises that make people wait for the next S phone and then we get the same old phone as many years ago...Samsung has been destroyed by the chineses already.
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- Aierlan
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- 13 Dec 2025
jiyen235, 13 Dec 2025that's cus the latest tech isnt found in 1 inchers. Ex... moreYeah. Xiaomi is moving away from Sony and Samsung to smartsens and omnivision more and more to as they are using a 1 inch type OV50x sensor in the Xiaomi 17 ultra. Its already rumored they will also ditch the 1-inch type sensor in future though. The Xiaomi 17 pro and Xiaomi 17 pro max are using basically almost identical Smart sens sensors for the main camera as the mate 80 series as well (the only difference seems to be the RYYB version for Huawei). The pura 80 ultra's 1 inch sensor from Smartsens was very advanced and seems to have Lofic support from the specs but it's probably very expensive so wouldn't be surprised if Huawei ditched it for the next pura series.
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- 13 Dec 2025
Aierlan, 13 Dec 2025i think that's unlikely. Even most Chinese brands are ... morethat's cus the latest tech isnt found in 1 inchers. Except for Huawei, everyone just uses what Sony or Samsung make. The LYT-828 was the latest craze and Vivo went for it, the LYT-900 was the previous craze and Vivo, Xiaomi and Oppo went for it. The HP9 is the biggest thing and Xiaomi and Vivo went for it, Oppo might go for it for the Ultra.
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- 13 Dec 2025
Tech Gig, 13 Dec 2025"i know the difference and it is minor" Nope y... moreofc sir u know everything and are a master of mobile phones
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- 13 Dec 2025
There are always rumors about samsung bringing new sensor and every year they just used the old one from 5 years ago
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- 13 Dec 2025
It's not because of the Chinese toy business, Apple is working on a square box that is also a camera, but I wonder what Sony is doing.
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- 13 Dec 2025
jiyen235, 13 Dec 2025i know the difference and it is minor and only for high lev... more"i know the difference and it is minor"
Nope you don't know about the difference. And also, comparing two tiny sensors like 1 inch less than that isn't very sensible, nor is it larger. Since the field of view is almost similar for both
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- 13 Dec 2025
It will be four years after Vivo X100 Ultra was released and totally destroyed the competition in camera photo quality.
Better late than never Samsung. I guess.
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- 13 Dec 2025
Tech Gig, 13 Dec 2025Dude, first get some ideas about global shutter vs rolling ... morei know the difference and it is minor and only for high level professionals in their dedicated field of sports or photographers of fast moving objects.
Normal people dont need this and should not care about this as much as Samsung is going to make them think they should in their ads. The difference between a 1/1.3" and 1 inch sensor is larger than a global and rolling shutter camera.
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- 13 Dec 2025
jiyen235, 13 Dec 2025another thing for the slides and marketing team to use that... moreDude, first get some ideas about global shutter vs rolling shutter. Then talk about it.
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- 13 Dec 2025
DarlingYext, 12 Dec 2025Great, so they may finally be on par wirh chinese flagships... moreWhich Chinese flagship has global shutter? Do you even understand it?
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- 13 Dec 2025
Vaas, 13 Dec 2025So Ultra will get the new sensor and the base S22 mk IV wil... moreI somehow doubt they will get the old 200MP Main cam, I fell like they want to push an 1/1.4 or 1/1.5 200MP Sensor in there if they give it an 200MP one.
So the sensor isn't actually bigger than the one in the S25.
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- 13 Dec 2025
If it was 12MP 3.0μm I wouldn't be Complaining.
But this isn't a major upgrade.
Sounds more like a catch-up to now be 3 Generations behind competition instead of 4.