Samsung Announces a New 50MP Smartphone Camera With Improved Autofocus - Android

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Samsung has unveiled its latest and greatest 50MP sensor called the ISOCELL GN2 which is a follow-up to last year’s GN1. The new GN2 sensor features bigger pixels, better power consumption, and the Dual Pixel Pro technology for better PDAF.

The ISOCELL GN2 sensor is sized at 1/1.12″, which is the biggest in a smartphone as of yet. This sensor has 1.4μm-sized pixels for “exceptionally detailed photographs in regular settings”. Low light images are handled with the familiar pixel binning technology that simulates a larger 2.8μm pixel.

This sensor is also capable of taking 100MP photos through an AI algorithm. It does so by re-arranging the color pixels using “an intelligent re-mosaic algorithm”. As a result, there are three 50 MP layers in Green, Blue, and Red, which are overlaid, upscaled, and merged to produce a 100MP photo.