Rumor: Motorola will be the first to put a 200-megapixel camera sensor in a smartphone

It will be the first phone with a 200MP camera sensor from Motorola and will be released next year. This was reported by an acquaintance leaker. This will be followed by a model from Xiaomi, after which Samsung will start using the sensor in 2023.

The Lenovo sub-brand will therefore be the first to have a 200MP sensor in the phone, The ice universe was born. This will likely happen next year. Xiaomi will follow with a 200MP camera in a smartphone in the second half of next year. The sensor is from Samsung, but the company itself is only third in the phone. Ice Universe has no information on which phones the sensor will be on.

This will be the first time a new camera sensor has appeared in a Motorola smartphone. In recent years, new sensors have often appeared in models from Xiaomi or from Samsung itself.

It is about extension Isocel HP1, sensor with a pixel size of 0.64 microns. The sensor has an optical size of 1 / 1.22 “that is about 10.5 x 7.9 mm, suitable for a surface of about 82.5 mm². This makes the sensor larger than the 108 MP sensors of, for example, the Galaxy S21 Ultra smaller than the Isocell GN2 of the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra, which is 50 MP sensor with 1/1.12 inch optical size and 98 mm² surface area.

The 200MP sensor has two modes of pixel binning. In low light, the sensor can combine 16 pixels of the sensor into a single pixel in an image, resulting in the equivalent of 2.56 micrometers of a pixel. This results in 12.5 megapixel photos. In bright light, the sensor can take 50MP photos by combining four pixels or at a full 200MP resolution. The 50MP mode is also useful when shooting 8K videos.