A Silicon Valley startup is developing an optical zoom lens unit that’s thin enough to slip inside of a smartphone and won’t protrude when used. DynaOptics has spent two years working on the device, ...

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

Founded in 2011, Apexel are an award-winning company who cater for the needs of the ever-growing smartphone market by offering a wide range of lenses. I’d already been impressed with Apexel's ...

Along with the new lens, the Chinese tech company also teased a new image processing pipeline and a fast shutter camera for action shots. Chinese upstart tech brand Tecno had itself quite an ...

Chinese phone maker Oppo has come up with a new camera module for smartphones that could help you get close-up shots without actually, you know, getting all that close to the item you’re shooting.

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 ...

In September 2021, Samsung launched the world’s first 200MP camera for smartphones. It has since followed up with two more 200MP sensors, one of which is found on the Galaxy S23 Ultra. However, all ...

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 ...

I'm an avid smartphone photographer interested in street photography and clicking human portraits. I've captured photos on my phone for over a decade, from budget-oriented $100 smartphones to the best ...