Another iQOO phone uses Samsung’s ISOCELL GN5 camera sensor

Apart from one of the best smartphones in the market, Samsung also makes some of the very capable camera sensors for mobile phones in the industry, such as the ISOCELL HP2, which has won the hearts of many for its image quality with the Galaxy S23 Ultra. Apart from using these sensors in its devices, […]

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Pixel 8 is upgrading to Samsung’s best camera sensor yet

Samsung is the second most popular mobile camera sensor brand, and a lot of brands use Samsung’s ISOCELL camera sensors. Google has used ISOCELL camera sensors in its Pixel smartphones for a few years. And it looks like Google will continue to use a mix of Samsung’s and Sony’s camera sensors in its next-generation phones. Pixel […]

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HONOR’s new phones use Samsung’s 200MP ISOCELL cameras

HONOR is the latest brand to adopt Samsung’s 200MP camera sensors. The HONOR 90 and the HONOR 90 Pro are the company’s newest high-end smartphones, and they come packed with some amazing features. They both come equipped with the 200MP (1/1.4-inch) sensor for their primary cameras. HONOR 90 and 90 Pro use the 200MP Samsung […]

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Samsung may stick to 200MP camera sensor for next few years

Unlike most other smartphone brands, which are moving towards a 1-inch camera sensor while keeping the 50MP resolution in flagship devices, Samsung is moving in the other direction. It is using a 200MP camera sensor which is much smaller than the 1-inch sensor used in competing smartphones. And it looks like it will stick to […]

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The Pixel 8 Pro might employ Samsung’s biggest ISOCELL sensor

The Google Pixel 8 series is still a couple of months away, but according to a renowned tipster of things Samsung-related, the 8 Pro may get a big main camera upgrade. The report says the Pixel 8 Pro will use Samsung’s biggest ISOCELL GN2 sensor, which is 1/1.12-inch in size and has 50MP native resolution, […]

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Google’s next flagship smartphone to feature Samsung’s biggest camera sensor

Google has been using Samsung’s camera sensors, display panels, modems, and other electronic components since the launch of the Pixel 6 series. And it will continue to do so with its next-generation Pixel series smartphones. In fact, the company will upgrade to Samsung’s biggest camera sensor yet. According to tipster Ice Universe, Google will equip […]

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Honor 90 Pro will use Samsung’s 200MP ISOCELL HP3 camera sensor

The Honor 80 Pro, which came out in November 2022, was one of the first smartphones to feature Samsung’s 200MP ISOCELL HP3 camera sensor. Although we’ve seen this camera in many other smartphones, it was implemented quite differently in the Honor 80 Pro. For reasons unknown to many, Honor had capped the sensor’s resolution to […]

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More Chinese firms start using Samsung’s 200MP camera sensors

Samsung introduced the world’s first 200MP camera sensor for smartphones—ISOCELL HP1—in September 2021. Nine months later, it announced another 200MP camera sensor: ISOCELL HP3. So far, the two 200MP camera sensors from Samsung have been used by Xiaomi, Motorola, and Infinix in their high-end phones. According to leaked information, Realme is also set to opt […]

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Qualcomm new Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 chip supports Samsung’s 200MP cameras

Qualcomm has unveiled a new premium chipset, the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2. It succeeds last year’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 processor, which proved to be quite unpopular. The new chipset aims to offer flagship-grade performance, owing to its 50% faster CPU and 200% faster GPU, and will mainly be used in gaming smartphones and affordable […]

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New leak reveals every Galaxy S23 Ultra sensor and mystery ISOCELL

We all know by now that the Galaxy S23 Ultra will boast Samsung’s new ISOCELL HP2 200MP sensor as its primary unit. But what’s more is that Samsung appears to have changed almost every camera sensor for its upcoming flagship, save for two. According to a new screenshot from a hardware ID app detailing Galaxy […]

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Samsung introduces 200MP ISOCELL HP2 sensor for Galaxy S23 Ultra

Samsung Electronics announced its latest 200 MP sensor today, named ISOCELL HP2. It is 1/1.3” in size with 0.6μm pixels and comes with brand-new technology for expanding the dynamic range and enhance color reproduction. The name HP2 might suggest the new sensor is somehow worse than the 200MP ISOCELL HP3, but in reality, the number […]

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Samsung announces tech behind what could be Galaxy S23 series’ most outstanding feature

Samsung has finally unveiled the ISOCELL HP2 camera sensor. The same sensor will be used in the upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra smartphone. The ISOCELL HP2 is the South Korean firm’s third 200MP camera sensor, and the company claims that it offers greatly improved image and video quality. The ISOCELL HP2 is a 1/1.3-inch sensor with […]

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Samsung’s upcoming camera sensors will greatly improve video quality of smartphones

Samsung is planning to bring big improvements with its next-generation ISOCELL camera sensors, especially in terms of video quality. Shooting videos is much harder than capturing still images, as the camera has to capture at least 30 frames every second instead of just one frame. The company explained how it plans to do that in […]

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Samsung’s 108MP camera sensor used in a phone running HarmonyOS

So far, many smartphone brands have used Samsung’s 108MP ISOCELL HM2 sensor, including Realme and Xiaomi. However, all those devices are powered by Android. Now, for the first time, Samsung’s 108MP ISOCELL HM2 sensor is being used in a non-Android smartphone—WIKO 5G—powered by Huawei’s HarmonyOS. WIKO is a smartphone brand headquartered in France. The company […]

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This ultra gaming phone uses Samsung’s camera sensor

Many smartphone brands have started using Samsung’s ISOCELL camera sensors in their mid-range and premium smartphones. The latest in the line to use an ISOCELL camera is the Nubia Red Magic 8 Pro. It is a gaming smartphone with some unique features and will be launched in China on December 26, 2022. The Red Magic […]

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Google’s next Pixel phone could use upgraded Samsung camera sensor

Google’s Pixel lineup has improved immensely over the past couple of years. The Pixel 6 and the Pixel 7 use a lot of Samsung components, including an OLED panel, camera sensors (including the ISOCELL GN1), and a co-developed processor. It looks like Google could use an upgraded Samsung camera sensor next year. According to a […]

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This quirky looking phone uses two Samsung camera sensors

Many smartphone brands are now using Samsung’s ISOCELL camera sensors in their mid-range and high-end devices. The latest brand to use the South Korean firm’s camera sensor is Tecno. The Chinese smartphone brand unveiled its flagship smartphone for 2023, the Tecno Phantom X2 Pro, which uses two ISOCELL sensors. Tecno’s latest smartphone uses a 50MP […]

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Is Samsung working on next-gen XISO-CELL camera sensors?

For years now, Samsung has been making smartphone camera sensors with the ISOCELL branding. This branding was first used during the launch of the Galaxy S5, and over the years, the company also used ISOCELL Plus and ISOCELL 2.0 branding for its sensors. Now, it looks like the company is working on its next-generation camera […]

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Sony brings LYTIA branding to its camera sensors to compete with Samsung’s ISOCELL

Samsung (System LSI) and Sony are the two biggest smartphone camera sensor brands worldwide. While Samsung launches its camera sensors with the ISOCELL branding, Sony lacked a specific branding for its smartphone camera sensors. Now, the Japanese firm is changing that to better compete with Samsung. Sony (Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation) revealed (via FoneArena) that […]

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