After using a 108 MP ISOCELL HM1 sensor on the Galaxy S20 Ultra then a 108 MP ISOCELL HM3 sensor on the Galaxy S21 Ultra and Galaxy S22 UltraSamsung would finally be ready to take the plunge and equip its next high-end smartphone of 2023, the Galaxy S23 Ultra, with a 200 megapixel photo sensor.
We learned as early as last year that Samsung’s 200MP cameras were coming to Android smartphones as early as 2022, and it looks like the first to use one will be the Motorola X30 Pro, which will be released in China. It will be closely followed by the Xiaomi 12T Pro, which will arrive in France at the start of the school year, then the Galaxy S23 Ultra at the very beginning of 2023.
Samsung will equip the Galaxy S23 Ultra with a new 200 MP sensor
As the famous leaker Ice Universe on Twitter reports, Samsung intends to use a 200 MP photo sensor on its Galaxy S23 Ultra. However, it would be a new HP2 sensor that the manufacturer has not yet revealed.
As a reminder, Samsung lifted the veil last year on its first 200 MP photo sensor for smartphones, the ISOCELL HP1. Offering pixels of 0.64 µm (which is not new), for a size of 1/1.22 inch, this sensor can not only take 200 megapixel shotsbut also photos in 50 megapixels with 1.28 µm pixels thanks to Pixel Binning. The device can even capture photos in 12.5 megapixels in low light.
Samsung then introduced the ISOCELL HP3, a smaller sensor for mid-range smartphones. With its 1/1.4 inch format, the sensor only offers individual pixels of 0.56 µm. So don’t expect miracles in low light, since the sensor probably won’t be able to harvest as much light as other larger sensors with fewer megapixels.
The Galaxy S23 Ultra should therefore not use either of these two sensors. It is expected that ISOCELL HP2 is an improved version of ISOCELL HP1. We don’t really know yet what Samsung has in store for its Galaxy S23 Ultra, except that all smartphones will abandon Exynos SoCs this year for a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip from Qualcomm.
The S23 Ultra 200MP sensor is an unreleased HP2, almost 100% sure.
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) August 2, 2022