Galaxy S25 Extremely: tip suggests minimal digital camera improve, however we’re not involved

A brand new rumor from serial smartphone tipster Ice Universe suggests Samsung‘s subsequent flagship digital camera cellphone, the Galaxy S25 Extremely, might characteristic virtually the identical digital camera array as the present Galaxy S24 Extremely. If the rumor is appropriate, the one important distinction might be a brand new ultrawide digital camera, based mostly round Samsung’s 50MP ISOCELL JN3 sensor, with a 0.7um pixel measurement. This contradicts a earlier rumor that the S25 Extremely may get a brand new telephoto digital camera. It additionally means the 200MP ISOCELL HP2 sensor within the cellphone’s major wide-angle digital camera could be carried over to the S25 Extremely, together with the S24 Extremely’s 10MP 3x telephoto module and its 50MP 5x telephoto digital camera.

Different rumors counsel Samsung may equip the S25 Extremely completely with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset in all areas, whereas additionally including further RAM, although battery capability is stated to be unchanged from the S24 Extremely. It is also claimed that S25 Extremely might be the thinner and lighter than the iPhone 16 Professional Max and Google’s Pixel 9 Professional XL, at the least partly resulting from thinner display screen bezels.

Have digital camera telephones peaked?

However ought to we actually be shocked that the Galaxy S25 Extremely might not get a considerably improved digital camera array? The pixel rely of digital camera cellphone sensors appears to have peaked at 200MP for the reason that S23 Extremely, and 1-inch seems to be the dimensions restrict for a digital camera cellphone sensor. The periscope lens has helped allow longer telephoto focal lengths, however that is solely doable by pairing the lens with a bodily smaller sensor, so there’s additionally a restrict to how a lot zoom a cellphone can fairly supply earlier than the sensor measurement will get so small that picture high quality is noticeably compromised.

It is lengthy been the case that the key to a digital camera cellphone’s stellar picture high quality is superior picture processing – that is how Google was capable of re-use the identical picture sensor for 4 generations of Pixel telephones, whereas nonetheless enhancing picture high quality alongside the way in which. Now with energy of AI on faucet to additional improve picture processing, cellphone producers will probably be leaning on this way over developments in sensor and lens {hardware} to enhance digital camera efficiency.