Samsung launched the Galaxy S23 Ultra earlier this year with a new camera sensor, the 200MP ISOCELL HP2.
It is the highest-resolution camera sensor in the market but not the
biggest in terms of sensor size.
So, sometimes it shows a few issues,
including slightly higher noise in darker parts of an image. Some Galaxy
fans hoped that Samsung would upgrade to a bigger sensor, but it
doesn’t look like that will happen for the next two years.
Yes, you’ve read that correctly. According to tipster Ice Universe, Samsung plans to use the same 200MP ISOCELL HP2 camera sensor in the Galaxy S24 Ultra
and the Galaxy S25 Ultra. He claims that Samsung is not upgrading from a
3x telephoto camera to a 5x telephoto camera with the Galaxy S24 Ultra.
It was rumored
earlier that the South Korean firm could replace the 3x telephoto
camera from the Galaxy S23 Ultra with a 5x telephoto camera on the
Galaxy 24 Ultra. Only the 10x telephoto camera on the Galaxy S24 Ultra
seems to be getting an upgrade.
Even the Galaxy S25 Ultra
is rumored to use the same 200MP ISOCELL HP2 sensor for the primary
camera. As usual, it looks like Samsung will use the same camera sensor
for three years, similar to what it did with the 108MP camera on the
Galaxy S20 Ultra, Galaxy S21 Ultra, and Galaxy S22 Ultra.
Even Apple is expected to use a 1/1.14-inch 48MP camera sensor from Sony
in the iPhone 15 Pro Max. This new sensor is said to be similar in
performance to the 1-inch Sony IMX989 sensor used by several Chinese firms, including OPPO, Vivo, and Xiaomi.
If that happens, Samsung could be trumped on specs by not only Chinese
brands but even Apple. And that doesn’t appear good for Samsung in terms of optics.
