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Ryan Haines \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n
The smartphone industry has been through a brutal megapixel war over the last few years, jumping to 48MP, 50MP, 64MP, and 108MP cameras. Companies then upped the ante in 2022 and 2023 by offering 200MP camera phones<\/a>, and we\u2019ve stayed at this resolution since then.<\/p>\n Did you know that recent flagship Android phones actually support more than 200MP sensors, though? In fact, they support 320MP cameras. However, companies haven\u2019t adopted 320MP cameras just yet. Here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n Wait, my phone supports 320MP cameras?<\/p>\n Yep, if you bought a high-end Android phone<\/a> in the last two years, there\u2019s a chance it actually supports 320MP cameras. That\u2019s because most chipmakers have now enabled 320MP support in their recent flagship processors.<\/p>\n This trend started with MediaTek\u2019s Dimensity 9000, which powered several Android phones in 2022. The Taiwanese chipmaker continued to offer this feature in its subsequent high-end SoCs. Meanwhile, Samsung\u2019s Exynos 2400 chip also supports 320MP cameras. Qualcomm was late to the party and only hopped on this trend with the current Snapdragon 8 Elite<\/a> chip.<\/p>\n Do you want a phone with a 320MP camera?<\/p>\n 641 votes<\/p>\n Yes, for sure<\/p>\n 45%<\/p>\n Maybe, I’ll wait for reviews<\/p>\n 30%<\/p>\n No, absolutely not<\/p>\n 24%<\/p>\n So, if you bought a phone like the OnePlus 13<\/a>, the Samsung Galaxy S25 series<\/a>, or the vivo X200 Pro<\/a>, your phone could technically make use of a 320MP camera. In fact, older devices like the Exynos-equipped Galaxy S24\/S24 Plus and vivo X100 Pro also support this capability.<\/p>\n So why haven\u2019t we seen a phone with a 320MP camera?<\/p>\n Robert Triggs \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n The biggest reason why we haven\u2019t actually seen phones with 320MP cameras is that there simply aren\u2019t any 320MP smartphone camera sensors on the market yet from major suppliers. We have heard rumors for a while that Samsung Semiconductor is working on this tech, but there\u2019s been no announcement until now.<\/p>\n The good news is that Samsung previously stated that its ultimate goal was to create a camera sensor that matched the human eye\u2019s resolution (~600MP), so 320MP would be a stepping stone to get there.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also worth noting that chipmakers only offer rudimentary snapshot support for 320MP cameras at this stage. That means no multi-frame image processing or other advanced tricks to spruce up the final picture. History already shows us that full-resolution 200MP pictures don\u2019t necessarily look great, so I\u2019d expect full-resolution 320MP images to be similarly underwhelming.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, the fact that these major chipmakers all settled on 320MP camera support strongly suggests that phones with these cameras will be a matter of \u201cwhen\u201d and not \u201cif.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Haines \/ Android Authority The smartphone industry has been through a brutal megapixel war over the last…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[34144,611,3092,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-43710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-camera","9":"tag-mobile","10":"tag-photography","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114807086975860741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Xiaomi](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Xiaomi-15-Ultra-camera-housing.jpg\"\/ "\\"Xiaomi")
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