Samsung looks to be focusing on camera performance with their upcoming Galaxy S11 family and plans to do so with a new ‘Bright Night' image sensor, expected to be their new 108MP sensor.
The last few years of mobile advancements have featured ‘battles of the camera sensors' rather heavily, with Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi all launching phones featuring larger and higher resolution sensors from Sony and Samsung, with 48MP, 64MP, and now even 108MP sensors with huge sizes for improved light-collection.
Even with these giant Sony IMX586's and Samsung GW1 sensors offering over twice the image-sensing size of the 12MP sensors utilised in the industry's highest-end flagships (apart from Huawei's), Samsung, Google, and Apple have all ignored these apparently more powerful sensors for their flagship smartphones for some reason.
Samsung looks to finally be bucking this trend and upping their image-sensing game with their upcoming Galaxy S11-series of flagship smartphones, though, and the company is tipped to be launching their new flagship phones with a refreshed and improved 108MP sensor.
This prospect has been recently reinforced by new leaks advising the Galaxy S11 phones will feature a patented ‘Bright Night' sensor – Samsung's branding for their newly enlargened and improved image sensors.
The branding scheme arises from the fact that Samsung's 108MP sensor clocks in at a huge 1/1.33″ size (versus the 1/2.55″ of the Galaxy S10's primary sensor, and 1/2″ size of Sony's largest 48MP IMX586 sensor); even though such a scale is sliced into only 0.8μm pixels from its crazy 108 megapixels (versus 1.4μm on the S10), these large-resolution sensors are in fact ‘quad-bayer' sensors, meaning they invariably combine 4 pixels into one for a final 27MP image with roughly-effective 1.6μm pixel size, making the pixels roughly-larger and still more plentiful than on Samsung's previous flagship sensors.
We'll just have to wait a bit longer for all the final, official details of Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S11 family – though I don't doubt they'll all leak ahead of time anyway.
Source: LetsGoDigital
