At a time when the smartphones with a 48-megapixel camera sensor have become popular, smartphone manufacturers are now going to step forward and have started working on smartphones having a 64-megapixels camera sensor.

Yesterday, Xiaomi-backed Redmi shared a camera sample of a smartphone that features a 64 MP snapper and announced that the mobile industry has officially entered the era of a 64 MP camera phones.

It is believed that the Redmi’s first smartphone with a 64 MP sensor provides images with a resolution of 9248 x 6936 pixels and about 20MB in size. The screenshot of the phone’s view-frame reveals that “64MP” mode as well as other modes such as photo, video, portrait, night scene, panorama, video, among others.

Now, the company has officially revealed more details about the upcoming smartphone. It confirmed that smartphone will come with four camera sensors where the primary snapper will be of 64-megapixels. It also added that a single image will be of around 20MB in size and the resolution will be well over 8K TVs and could probably the highest ever for a smartphone ever made.

While the company has not confirmed this, it is believed that the Redmi smartphone will come with Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 64MP sensor which comes with pixel-merging Tetracell technology and remosaic algorithm that offers 16MP images in low-light environments where four pixels are merged to work as one to increase light sensitivity.

It also comes with the company’s proprietary ISOCELL Plus technology that reduces light leakage. It supports real-time high dynamic range (HDR) of up to 100-decibels (dB) that provides richer hues. The sensor is equipped with a Dual Conversion Gain (DCG) that converts the received light into an electric signal. This allows the sensor to optimize its full well capacity (FWC), utilizing the collected light more efficiently especially in bright environments.

Apart from Xiaomi’s Redmi, other smartphone brands which are reportedly working on a 64 MP camera smartphone includes Realme and Samsung. Realme CEO had shared the camera samples of this upcoming smartphone last month, confirming that the company is indeed working on such a device.

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Samsung Electronics has today launched two new 0.8-micrometer (μm) pixel image sensors — 64-megapixel Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 and 48-megapixel ISOCELL Bright GM2.

The new ISOCELL Bright GW1 is a 64 MP sensor that offers the highest resolution so far for a smartphone camera sensor. On the other hand, the new ISOCELL Bright GM2 48 MP sensor is the successor of last year’s ISOCELL Bright GM1 48 MP sensor.

Both sensors come with the company’s proprietary ISOCELL Plus technology that reduces light leakage, as well as Tetracell technology which uses four pixels like one to allow for better photos in dark environments.

The GW1 sensor comes with pixel-merging Tetracell technology and remosaic algorithm that offers 16 MP images in low-light environments where four pixels are merged to work as one to increase light sensitivity.

It also supports real-time high dynamic range (HDR) of up to 100-decibels (dB) that provides richer hues. The sensor is equipped with a Dual Conversion Gain (DCG) that converts the received light into an electric signal. This allows the sensor to optimize its full well capacity (FWC), utilizing the collected light more efficiently especially in bright environments.

The Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 and GM2 are currently sampling to OEMs and are expected to enter mass production in the second half of this year. Can we see this in Galaxy Note10? We should know in the coming months.

The GW1 also supports 480fps Full HD slow motion filming and will have High Dynamic Range. Both the sensors — GW1 and GM2 come with support for Super PD which is a high-performance phase detection auto-focus technology.

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Currently, Samsung is sampling these sensors to OMEs and are expected to enter mass production in the second half of this year. We are expecting this new offering to power the upcoming Galaxy Note 10 flagship lineup.

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