How 2023 Android Smartphones Could Gain A Big Advantage Over iPhone - Forbes

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A groundbreaking caller optical zoom camera module, scheduled to debut astatine CES successful January 2023, could revolutionize aboriginal smartphone cameras for photos and particularly for video recording.

Offering a creaseless optical zoom capableness betwixt 4x and 9x, the newly-announced zoom camera module promises improved clarity passim the zoom scope without immoderate jarring ‘jumps’ successful representation quality. The module besides incorporates optical representation stabilization (OIS), and its compact dimensions let for precocious magnifications without an disfigured camera bump. The camera is expected to motorboat successful smartphones featuring Qualcomm’s caller Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 level adjacent year.

LG Innotek announces a smartphone camera module with existent optical zoom capabilities

LG INNOTEK

Manufactured by LG Innotek, the camera module deploys a ‘true’ optical zoom lens - 1 that uses mechanical moving parts to set its magnification seamlessly from adjacent to acold successful a akin mode to zoom lenses typically utilized with DSLR oregon mirrorless cameras.

This method stands successful opposition to emblematic smartphone ‘optical zoom’ cameras that usage lone ‘prime’, oregon non-zooming, lenses with fixed magnification levels. In this case, the illusion of optical zoom is achieved by utilizing integer zoom to modulation arsenic smoothly arsenic imaginable betwixt these fixed magnification levels. The usage of integer zoom, however, ever results successful a driblet successful prime which is often rather noticeable successful specified cameras.

True optical zoom tin beryllium peculiarly advantageous erstwhile shooting video, arsenic immoderate abrupt changes successful representation prime volition instrumentality retired similar a sore thumb erstwhile zooming successful oregon retired of a continuously moving image.

LG claims ‘unrivaled’ exertion successful this tract and hopes the caller camera module volition solidify its presumption successful the planetary smartphone camera module market, according to its caller press release. The institution is besides moving with Qualcomm to optimize bundle supporting the existent optical zoom lens for the flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 level deployed successful high-end Android handsets.

However, the caller camera module wouldn’t beryllium the archetypal to supply a existent optical zoom camera successful a smartphone. That honor, speech from immoderate aboriginal experiments that were much similar pouch zoom cameras with phones attached, goes to Sony’s Xperia 1 IV flagship released earlier this year.

LG Innotek's caller smartphone camera module provides a existent optical zoom relation from 4x to 9x.

LG INNOTEK

Apple is besides said to beryllium moving connected a existent optical zoom camera of its own, though there’s nary connection connected whether LG’s latest module mightiness find its mode into aboriginal iPhones. The iPhone 14 Pro Max is presently considered to connection the best smartphone camera for video, but a existent optical zoom lens could springiness Android flagships a almighty limb against Apple if it doesn’t travel up with its ain solution adjacent year.

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