Last summer we echoed the rumor that pointed to the presence of a 16 megapixel camera in the hypothetical Samsung Galaxy S5. This information was completed just a month and a half ago, when we learned that the South Korean firm would be working on a technology dedicated to sensors called ISOCELL, capable of managing a greater amount of light per pixel, which would translate into higher quality in effective terms. image during capture. The culmination of this area has come with the confirmation by Samsung, which has already made public the progress it has made in this regard.
Signature South Korea have placed an order for no less than 180 million 16 - megapixel sensors that would be designed to operate with this technology, which gives the pixel size 1,12μ. The measurement of these photoreceptors is significantly lower than that of the iPhone 5S, and almost half of those of the HTC One. However, an effective compensation seems in the size of the image resulting from processing in 16 megapixels. In practice, the light capture is somewhat lower, but the dimensions of the recorded frame are more than double "" four megapixels in the case of the HTC mobile and eight megapixels in the latest high-end iPhone””.
During the last day dedicated to the Analyst Day 2013, Samsung made it clear that technology ISOCELL so far centered coupling units eight megapixels will also be a reality with twice the resolution, targeting these resources to the next equipment range premium that the company would present. Thus, we would foreseeably get to know the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with 16 megapixel 1.12µ cameras. Recall that in recent months, the plans of the South Korean to inaugurate a new line of high-end phones, theSamsung Galaxy F, which in this sense could also be recipients of the new high-performance ISOCELL sensors.
On the other hand, from Phone Arena they have echoed the possibility that Samsung's next-generation sensors may be able to be integrated into cameras with even higher resolution, pointing to a hypothetical scenario in which we see ISOCELL units of 20 and even 40 megapixels. With this, the intentions of the South Korean would go through marking a clear blow to the applauded PureView technology that Nokia has integrated into its Nokia Lumia 1020 and Nokia Lumia 1520.
The fact of reaching resolutions of such a high index would not make as much sense in the development of wide formats in the final capture as in the option of making a type of digital zoom that avoids noise in the image. That being the case, it seems that the eternal battle of the megapixels will continue to be a constant, although opting for the new battlefield of photoreceptors that the Taiwanese proposed with its HTC One earlier this year.
