Samsung's next big camera upgrade is coming to flagship phones
Samsung is cooking up a new image sensor for its upcoming top-tier smartphones, aiming to seriously improve action shots.
The goal? To reach "global shutter" performance—basically, clearer photos of fast-moving subjects with less motion blur and weird distortion.
By tweaking pixel structure and using smarter algorithms on their current hardware, Samsung wants your phone pics to look sharper than ever.
What's special about this sensor?
This sensor packs 1.5-micrometer pixels in a 12MP-class lens, enhanced by an "optical flow" algorithm to compensate for motion.
It also features an Analog-to-Digital Converter at the pixel level.
By grouping pixels in a 2x2 pattern, it mimics larger 3-micrometer pixels—enabling the capture of fast-moving objects as a still image.
More details coming soon
Samsung has already submitted a research paper on this tech to the International Solid-State Circuits Conference happening in February 2026, so we'll likely get more info then.