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Samsung announces new 64MP and 48MP smartphone sensors

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Michail, 09 May 2019

Samsung Announcement

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 with its 64MP ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor. Alongside it, the company also announced an updated 48MP ISOCELL Bright GM2.

ISOCELL Bright GW1 (left) and GM2 (right) ISOCELL Bright GW1 (left) and GM2 (right)
ISOCELL Bright GW1 (left) and GM2 (right)

Like the increasingly common 48MP sensors found throughout the smartphone landscape, Samsung’s new 64MP shooter will employ the Tetracell binding technology. It merges four pixels into one, pushing out 16MP images in low light environments and remosaic algorithm for full 64MP shots in brighter scenarios. As is normally the case with those sensors though, you are mostly supposed to shoot in the binned mode as the full res shots don't really deliver that much extra detail.

The sensor will also bring high-performance phase detection for improved autofocus and support for full HD video recordings at 480 fps. The Quad-Bayer will enable real-time HDR.

More excitingly though the 64MP sensor has the same 0.8μm pixel size as the 48MP ones, making it 33% larger overall. This makes it a 1/1.7" or 1.8" type sensor, which is huge in smartphone terms but we've already seen similarly sized sensors in last year's Huawei Mate 20 Pro and more recently in the P30 and P30 Pro.

As for the 48MP - that's a minor update over the existing GM1, that's supposed to utilize the collected light more efficiently in bright environments and offer better autofocus thanks to what Samsung calls Super PD.

Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 and GM2 are currently sampling and are expected to be in mass production in the second half of this year.

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  • Anonymous
  • gM8
  • 20 Aug 2020

48mp gm1

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  • Ryan240SX
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  • 17 Sep 2019

It doesn't matter how many mp has since the quality of the picture is made up by many more things such as aperture, pixel density, focal length,the size of the pixel themselves and the size of the sensor, so it can say that it has 64mp but until i se...

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  • Omi Barua
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  • 22 Jul 2019

Is Samsung's GM1 sensor used in Samsung A80's camera, or has the GM2 sensor been used?

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