- A leaked Samsung slide indicates that the company is still thinking about the practical use of a 600 MP sensor on a smartphone.
- The slide details issues that will introduce larger sensors, including thicker camera bumps than phones.
- Samsung had earlier suggested that the 500MP to 600MP mark is a future target for the industry.
Samsung, especially Samsung Semiconductor, is one of the trailblazers in the phone camera megapixel race. But it looks like the company won’t be done with packing pixels into its smartphone camera sensor.
Leaked by Tipster in Isosell Marketing Slide Ice universe, Samsung phones, their prospects and the issues they present talk about the huge camera sensors. Pay firm once again mentions the magical 600MP benchmark. That figure currently looks like a pipestream, but Samsung has previously set it as a future target.
In an interview with Android Authority In September, Samsung Semiconductor Sensor Marketing Head Jinhyan Quo indicated that the 500MP – approximate resolution of the human eye – is the industry’s ultimate goal. Achieving this presents a number of issues, the goal of which is to show a slide.
If the company is to use 0.8M pixel technology, the 600MP sensor will require a camera bump around 22mm thick – three times more than the Galaxy S20. It will also capture a wide sweater on the back plate of the phone, covering four times the area of its 0.8M 108mmP sensor.
The slide indicates that Samsung is not complete with its small-pixel-large-megapixel project. It recently marked the 0.7m with its Isosell HM2 sensor, launched in September. To make the 600MP feasible on phones, it will also need small pixels to keep the camera bump and area under scrutiny.
As a counterpoint, the company suggests that larger sensors will improve video capture at 4K and 8K resolutions, and improve crop image quality. It can be worth achieving.
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The slide does not confirm that Samsung is working on a 600MP sensor for smartphones, although it has previously talked about the usefulness of large sensors for autonomous vehicles and drones. Working with heavy sensors on smartphones – a technology that relies on practicality and portability – can be particularly challenging.
For those with 600MP super zoom, no one says you have to wait. Rumors suggest that Samsung may continue to use the 108MP sensor on the Galaxy S21. But it’s possible that the company’s future flagships could pack a little more than 100MP into their camera My Bumps.
