News & Reviews:   mobile photography

For those unaware, the Huawei XMAGE Awards 2025 was recently held in Paris. It's an annual mobile photography competition intended to showcase the photography prowess of Huawei phones, so contest entries must be captured on a Huawei phone. Below are more details of this year's awards.

MWC 2025 is underway in Barcelona and many brands have already showcased their new products. TECNO is also there this year to showcase its latest devices and innovations. One such tech is the SpectraVision Camera, a proprietary multispectral camera.

Take the road less traveled and reveal your own Malaysian hidden gems with your Samsung Galaxy S series smartphone and you could win a photography trip to Busan, South Korea! Courtesy of Samsung Malaysia Electronics, the ‘Go the S-tra Mile’ contest is available from now until 15 October for 6 mobile photographers with the most creative photos or videos of Malaysia’s hidden gems.

The 8th vivo V Fans Event continues its run in Malaysia for vivo mobile photography fans until 10 June 2023, offering photography tips and tricks and contests. This time around it will be at the Maxis Centre Plaza Merdeka Kuching on 2 June 2023. The workshop will have Afdhol and Sotla on hand to provide mobile photography tips for vivo V series users.

OPPO have recently announced the start of their IF Photography Awards 2023 mobile photography competition for OPPO and OnePlus users. Featuring a Golden Award prize of 160000 CNY (~RM103118), participation in the Hasselblad Image Training Camp and international photo exhibition opportunities it offers the highest value of prizes for a mobile photography contest yet.

Over the years, an increasing number of people are relying on smartphones for casual photography. Mobile image sensors have improved so much, causing a decline in the use of compact cams. Now, Sony wants to improve it further with its new image sensor tech.

It's hard to see completely new features being added to smartphones these days. Like it or not, most companies are just pushing for higher numbers to try to impress us. That's the same for the mobile photography space, with sources claiming that Samsung will have a 200MP camera sensor in 2021.