Today, Samsung Electronics is proud to introduce its latest 200MP image sensor. Called the ISOCELL HP2, it seems that this would be the upcoming Galaxy S23 series' newest main sensor.

Previously, we reported that the European Union (EU) is planning to force tech companies to do more changes on their mobile devices, including allowing third-party app stores, app sideloading and message interoperability. Well, after confirming that it will comply with the EU’s USB-C law, it looks like Apple is also gearing up to adhere to this latest ruling and reportedly preparing to allow third-party app stores on the iPhone.

Smartphone photography has come a long way and it has now reached a point of being a good enough quality for most people to use, especially if they’re just using the photos for social media. However, there’s no doubt that the quality of smartphone cameras is getting incrementally better year-over-year and now, Japanese tech giant Sony is even predicting that smartphone cameras will surpass DSLR quality by 2024.

BeReal is a social media app that notifies the users to snap a picture within two minutes at a random, predetermined time each day and share it with others. Compared to another popular image-sharing platform Instagram, BeReal emphasizes its users being real without all those filters, likes, and followers. Today, it's discovered that Instagram might be taking the idea and implementing it on its platform as well.

Although HUAWEI has parted ways with Leica, the Chinese company does not plan to stop innovating its camera technology for upcoming devices. Today, it has announced a new camera imaging brand called 'XMAGE', which will focus on research and development to strengthen the in-house imaging system.

Today, Xiaomi has announced an official partnership with Leica Camera. Leica Camera is a German camera tech company that collaborated a lot with Huawei. Now onwards with Xiaomi, there will be an imaging flagship smartphone coming soon in July 2022.

The OPPO INNO DAY 2021 is just around the corner, and it looks like the company is ready to showcase various exciting technology products at the event. Earlier, it was reported that OPPO's first foldable smartphone might get unveiled at the event, and we're still not sure if it's going to happen. However, there's one thing we'll definitely be seeing, which is a device with a retractable camera that the company just teased today.

realme has decided to expand its premium smartphone catalog next year. The company announced that it would make more premium flagship models that cost more than 5,000 Yuan (~RM3,242).

The components in smartphones are always improving and are all about bigger numbers these days. 108MP cameras first came out a few years back, followed by a 200MP sensor from last week. Now, Samsung plans to more than double the camera resolution by 2025.

There's still a few months left in 2021, but Samsung is already getting for 2022. Samsung's flagship series for next year will allegedly bring back the 3D ToF, with an Ultra variant that sports a 200MP camera too. Besides that, there's also news of a new 50MP camera.