Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra’s 200MP camera could be dead — but that's good
Samsung’s plan to overwhelm us with megapixels on next year’s Galaxy S22 flagship may be scrapped before the phone even sees the light of day. And that’s fine by me.
Earlier this spring, a rumor surfaced that Samsung was eyeing a 200MP sensor for the main camera on the Galaxy S22 Ultra. That would be quite a bump up from the already eye-catching 108MP sensor at the heart of the Galaxy S21 Ultra’s rear camera array, and it would certainly mean sharper pictures from next year’s high-end Samsung phone.
Leaker Ice Universe was one of the sources of that original Galaxy S22 Ultra tip, but now they’re backing away from that claim via a post on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
“It is almost 100% confirmed that Samsung S22 Ultra will not follow up with 200 [megapixels] and will polish the third-generation 108MP sensor,” a translated version of the Weibo post reads.
On the surface, that would seem like disappointing news, especially if you took that 200MP camera rumor at face value. Instead of featuring a main camera with a much bigger sensor, the Galaxy S22 Ultra — Samsung’s ultimate phone — is just going to have a tweaked version of the current sensor.
Ultimately, though, this is probably good news for a number of reasons, chief of which is that megapixels aren’t everything.
