TECNO has decided to do the unthinkable shrink telephoto modules, bend optical paths, and mock every brand still stuck in 5x ...

One offers smooth continuous zoom, the other borrows from traditional cameras - a design called a "mirror lens". Today, Tecno held the 5th edition of ...

Tecno announced a Samsung sensor-based continuous optical zoom tech for camera phones, offering seamless 1x-9x zoom range with a single lens.

The module’s design enables a “true continuous optical zoom” across 1x to 9x zoom, with no loss in quality or resorting to a digital zoom to bridge the gaps between cameras. Tecno says it will ...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics commenced its sojourn in the camera module market in 2003 and since then, the division has been developing camera modules for dual (OIS) cameras. The company has now ...

Smartphone zoom has made significant strides since the iPhone 7 series debuted a 2x telephoto camera back in 2016. In fact, a 2x telephoto shooter seems rather quaint by modern standards when we have ...

LG may not make smartphones anymore, but it's still building components for them. The company's LG Innotek arm just unveiled a periscope-style true optical zoom camera module with a 4-9 times ...

A groundbreaking new optical zoom camera module, scheduled to debut at CES in January 2023, could revolutionize future smartphone cameras for photos and especially for video recording. Offering a ...

First it was dual cameras. Then it was bokehs, a.k.a. portrait mode. These days, it seems that the battle over smartphone cameras is moving over to higher level of optical zoom that won't force OEMs ...

Xiaomi has patented a modular smartphone featuring a zoom camera module. The device houses a periscopic zoom camera and adopts a full-screen design. The Dutch social enterprise company Fairphone uses ...

Optical zoom has become a huge deal in 2019, with devices such as the P30 Pro and Oppo Reno showing off crazy feats. Now, Samsung is preparing its own 5x optical zoom camera sensor, and it seems ready ...