Samsung is really developing a 600-megapixel camera for smartphones
The authoritative network whistleblower known as Ice Universe announced in April this year that Samsung will in the future release 600-megapixel sensors that will surpass the capabilities of the human eye. The source has now confirmed that such a sensor is indeed in development.
Ice Universe’s data has been confirmed many times – the informant clearly has contacts close to the development department of the South Korean company. In particular, the source was the first to publish real images of the Galaxy S20 and much other reliable information, so his words definitely deserve attention.
The above image shows how much space a 600-megapixel photo module could take on a smartphone: 12% of the rear panel area, while the camera unit would protrude 22 mm above the back panel of the smartphone. If Samsung hadn’t changed the fundamentally existing technology.
But it should be said that now there is a tendency to reduce the size of the photosensitive elements of Quad Bayer matrices to 0.7 microns, so this will already reduce the matrix area by 1.3 times. Moreover, Samsung is going to somehow use the next generation ISOCELL technology in the sensor, which supposedly will significantly reduce the physical size of the lens.
One way or another, but it is unlikely that smartphones with such cameras will appear on the market next year. After a 108MP sensor, Samsung is expected to offer a 192MP camera for smartphones. Let’s see if the company’s engineers will be able to implement the matrix and lens in physical dimensions that are acceptable for manufacturers and consumers of smartphones.
