Early leaked renders of the Samsung Galaxy S11 suggested that the phone would have a large camera bump, and now we have a better idea of what that bump might contain. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Samsung’s flagship phone for 2020 will use a 108-megapixel sensor for its main camera as we also reported earlier along with separate ultra-wide and 5x telephoto lenses. The phone is also said to include a time-of-flight sensor, like this year’s Galaxy Note 10 Plus.
The company is reportedly further planning to use the 108-megapixel and 5x optical zoom cameras in its second foldable phone apart from the Samsung Galaxy S11, referred to by Bloomberg as the “Galaxy Fold clamshell device” and said to be set for reveal around February. It’s unclear whether this phone will use the flip phone-like concept design the company showed off at its developer conference a couple of months like the Motorola Razr.
Samsung’s 108-megapixel sensor is a known quantity — Xiaomi’s futuristic Mi Mix Alpha will use the same component, and it’s already available on the Mi Note 10. But Samsung is making a big bet on its technology here by putting it into its highest-profile phone range, which has used the same size 12-megapixel sensors ever since 2016’s Galaxy S7. We shall see how the company will implement pixel binning technology in the Samsung Galaxy S11.
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We have always said that megapixels aren’t everything, of course, but it sounds like the camera in the Samsung Galaxy S11 will at least be the most different from its predecessor in a long time.
