Tag: smartphone camera

October 19, 2021

Before last week, it seemed pretty much impossible in this day and age for a major tech company to be able to keep… anything a secret in advance of a product launch event anymore. But somehow, Sony appears to be […]

May 19, 2020

Cameras have slowly become the most important part of a modern smartphone. But recently, manufacturers are starting to go a bit overboard with all the lenses they’re adding on their devices. The megapixel war is back on the menu as […]

February 5, 2020

Earlier this year, OnePlus showcased a concept phone with an entirely new electrochromic glass cover for its camera lens. The material has the ability to be completely opaque when not needed, but become transparent as soon as the user opens […]

October 3, 2019

You hear this all the time: “smartphone cameras are improving!” But what does this even mean? Is it more megapixels? And who cares about numbers if the images don’t look better? We were especially curious to see all of these […]

September 26, 2019

The best smartphone camera on the market, according to photography benchmark company DxOMark’s experts, belongs to a smartphone that you’ll probably never buy: Huawei’s new Mate 30 Pro. This phone, DxOMark says, takes amazing low-light photos with very little noise […]

May 9, 2019

Back in March, a Qualcomm exec revealed that smartphone cameras will reach the 100MP count in 2019. Phone manufacturers have contentiously upped the ante in the past years and Samsung is looking to bring the latest breakthrough in mobile photography […]

December 7, 2018

The smartphone megapixel wars aren’t over yet. Chinese electronics company Xiaomi teased a new smartphone with a 48-megapixel camera, a record for the company, and as far as we can recall, an all-time record in popular consumer electronics, beating Nokia’s […]

June 5, 2018

Google Lens is now available as a standalone app — allowing anybody the chance to use the all-seeing recognition software for the first time. Lens uses the smartphone camera to scan and identify real-world objects. It can recognise species of […]