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posted by martyb on Thursday August 08 2019, @07:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-gonna-need-a-better-computer-monitor dept.

Xiaomi and Samsung Tease Upcoming Smartphone with 108MP Image Sensor

Xiaomi actually made two announcements today. The first is that it will be using Samsung's ISOCELL GW1 64MP image sensor in an upcoming Redmi phone. That, in and of itself, is a big deal. The GW1 uses "tetracell" technology (read: a quad-bayer array) to shoot 16MP images in low light, but thanks to a "remosaic" algorithm, it can still spit out full-resolution 64MP images in bright conditions. It's the highest resolution smartphone image sensor available... for now.

That's because this announcement was overshadowed by the news that Xiaomi and Samsung have teamed up on an even higher resolution "100MP" camera...

[...] The teaser says "100MP" but claims a total resolution of 12032 by 9024, which comes out to just over 108MP when you do the math. Following in the GW1's footsteps, we would guess that this, too, uses a quad-bayer array to produce 27MP images in normal shooting conditions, relying on the same remosaic algorithm to reconstruct full-res 108MP files when there's enough of light to go around.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 08 2019, @08:18AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 08 2019, @08:18AM (#877361)

    How many pics can you take before internal storage fills up? Does it require cloud storage to work? Does it sell you such a subscription service?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 08 2019, @12:04PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 08 2019, @12:04PM (#877411)

    Does it require cloud storage to work?

    I don't think the PRC call it cloud, do they?

    Does it sell you such a subscription service?

    Why, NSA hosted storage no longer good enough for yea?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @07:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @07:54AM (#878146)

    Xiaomi usually packs a lot of storage for the top end models (even for the mid/low end offerings). I'm typing this message from a xiaomi mi6 with 128gb of internal storage. Their newer models have larger storage options and I will not be surprised if they keep up the trend. also a 128 gb c10 microsd is $18 on aliexpress (just bought one from kingston).