Smartphone camera sensors: What’s selling, what’s not, what Apple and Samsung’s flagship phones mean for the industy and more
How have smartphone digicam sensors modified prior to now 9 months of the yr 2021? What are the favored resolutions being adopted by manufacturers like Apple, Xiaomi, Realme, Samsung and others — each at the front and back. The developments or new expertise benchmarks that we are going to see within the coming months. Counterpoint Smartphone Digicam Tracker tries to reply all this and extra.
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48MP and 64MP digicam sensors are hottest
Smartphones that includes rear primary cameras powered by 48MP and above megapixels accounted for 43% of complete gross sales through the second quarter of 2021, rising considerably from 38.7% the sooner quarter. The share of 64MP elevated 3.5% quarter-on-quarter to 14% through the second quarter of the yr.
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48MP and 64MP digicam sensors are common in fashions priced between Rs 15,000 to Rs 30,000
In response to the report, the 48MP and 64MP have grow to be the mainstream for fashions priced between $200 and $400 (Rs 15,000 to Rs 30,000 roughly).
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Flagship smartphones are going for large-area sensors to ship a DSLR-like high quality
Flagship smartphones have largely large-area sensors to ship a DSLR-like skilled efficiency, of which 50MP is probably the most adopted. Though the share of 108MP fell to three.1%, the extra inexpensive 0.7µm-based 108MP sensors proceed to unfold to mid-range fashions from OEMs comparable to Xiaomi Redmi and Realme.
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Samsung’s folding telephones and Apple iPhone 13 sequence enhance 12MP digicam sensor
With the launches of Samsung’s Z sequence in August and Apple’s iPhone 13 sequence in September, 12MP is predicted to see vital progress within the second half of the yr.
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Share of 20MP and above resolutions entrance cameras stayed flat
In entrance primary cameras, the share of 20MP and above resolutions virtually stayed flat as a result of decline in gross sales of high-end fashions.
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Flagship Android telephones might go for higher-resolution entrance cameras
The report expects the decision of the front-facing digicam to proceed to enhance with extra high-end smartphones adopting 32MP and even 48MP picture sensors.
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Samsung’s 200MP digicam sensor to come back in 2022
In September, Samsung pushed the smartphone digicam picture sensor trade into the 200MP period with the brand new ISOCELL HP1 sensor, which is predicted to enter flagship fashions within the coming quarters.
