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There’s a new Samsung Galaxy S23 leak to report on: and this time an image supposedly taken with the S23 Ultra has been compared to similar snapshots taken on the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and the Google Pixel 7 Pro.
This comes from the well-known tipster Ice Universe (opens in new tab) (through Notebook Check (opens in new tab)), who initially posted a series of three zoomed-in pumpkin photos without naming the phones involved, asking for votes on which of the photos was the best.
The Galaxy S23 Ultra won the vote, beating this year’s Ultra edition and Google’s latest flagship — but you can decide for yourself what you prefer. The photo apparently taken with a Galaxy S23 Ultra phone certainly looks the most detailed and vibrant.
Camera Specifications
We’ve previously seen another photo from the same leaker that is supposedly from the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, so it looks like Ice Universe got their hands on a unit ahead of time – the handset isn’t expected to launch until February 2023.
That means Samsung still has plenty of time to tweak the photo optimization algorithms on the S23 phones and make sure photos and videos look their best (yes, this usually continues after a phone is released). ).
We expect the Ultra edition of the Galaxy S23 to come with a triple-lens rear camera that isn’t hugely different from the one found on the Galaxy S22 Ultra – although there’s talk of a significant improvement in low-light shooting capabilities.
Analysis: cameras keep getting better
The best handsets of 2022 – including the iPhone 14 Pro and the Google Pixel 7 Pro – can take fantastic photos, images of a quality you could hardly believe when cameras were first attached to the backs of smartphones.
However, these cameras are getting better and better, and that’s because of improvements in two areas: the hardware (the actual sensors placed in the phones) and the software (how the phone interprets and processes the information it gets from the cameras).
It’s Google that may be best known for how its algorithms can make brilliant snaps even with sub-par camera sensors, but other phone makers are also improving their core code, including Samsung.
So we’ll have to pass judgment on the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s camera until we can actually test it – the camera specs alone don’t tell us the full story, even if the main sensor gets a big bump all the way up to the 100MP mark.