Samsung's new 5x optical zoom camera is ready for its smartphones

Terminal updated: May 21st, 2019 at 14:04 UTC+01:00

We've already stressed the need for Samsung to up the ante in the photographic camera department for its flagship smartphones. Its competitors are doing some very interesting things in this area. Samsung certainly doesn't desire to lag behind so it's a expert sign that it has been working on further improving its camera technologies.

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has announced that it'due south now mass-producing a 5x optical zoom camera module. This means that the component is fix for apply in smartphones. The question is, which Samsung phone volition exist the first to get it?

The new 5x optical zoom camera won't beetle from the back

The proclamation follows Samsung's reported conquering of Israeli camera technology company Corephotonics. It had designed 5x and 10x telephoto solutions for companies like Oppo previously. We accept talked almost how this acquisition will vitalize Samsung'southward mobile cameras earlier.

Samsung Electro-Mechanics started developing camera modules in 2003. It fabricated the globe'south first dual photographic camera module with paradigm stabilization too as the variable aperture module which debuted with the Galaxy S9. Its latest creation is really thinner than a 6mm conventional 2x optical zoom lens.

The 5x module is just 5mm thick which means that information technology would be able to sit down affluent with the body of the smartphone. It would be a pregnant design improvement if the module were to non beetle from the dorsum. This was done by arranging the sensor and lenses sideways and past utilizing the principle of reflecting lite in a periscope. That's the same principle that Corephotonics had used for its designs. It allows for a longer telephoto lens to be fit within a slim device.

So, volition nosotros become to see information technology in the Galaxy Note x? Samsung's next flagship is rumored to have a vertical rear camera setup, not dissimilar the iPhone. It's within the realm of possibility for the Galaxy Notation 10 to get the 5x optical zoom module. However, there'due south an interesting rumor out today from @UniverseIce, who claims that "the nigh creative Samsung smartphone" in the second half of this year won't be the Galaxy Fold or the Galaxy Note ten. Without revealing any specifics, he says that "y'all just accept to wait."

Samsung has recently developed a addiction of introducing new technologies with mid-range devices. The Galaxy S10 wasn't its commencement device with a dial hole display, it was the Galaxy A8s which didn't run into a wide release. Or the fact that the Milky way A9 (2018) was non just Samsung'south just the earth's first quad-camera smartphone. And so the possibility remains that there might be an entirely new device in the second half of this year with this camera module. Like many of you, though, I'll keep my fingers crossed for the Milky way Note 10 as well.