Samsung's Galaxy S9 could come sporting a camera sensor capable of shooting at 1,000fps, ideal for capturing super slow-motion pictures and video.
The sensor in the as-yet-unannounced Galaxy S9, the logical follow up to this year's Galaxy S8, will be made in-house by Samsung's vast electronics division, according to South Korean IT news site ETNews.
Using a layered structure, the camera sensor will reportedly have stacked image sensing tech with the ability to temporarily store captured images on a DRAM chip in one of the layers. The layered structure would appear to be similar to the triple stacked sensor Sony developed for its Xperia XZ1, which can also shoot at nearly 1,000fps; a selling point for the phone when it made is debut at IFA 2017 .
However, Sony has a patent for a three layered image sensing structure, so Samsung will need to find a way of creating the high-level image sensor without infringing Sony's patent. As such, ETNews reported that the sensors is likely to comprise of two layers with a DRAM chip fitted into the layers rather than on its separate layer.
Of course, this is all rumour and speculation at the moment, based on information coming out of electronics factories and tools the South Korean tech giant has ordered. rather than Samsung's phone or design divisions.
That being said, while the Galaxy S8's camera sets a high standard for smartphone photography, tech coming out of Apple with its iPhone X and other phone makers, means Samsung is due a proper makeover of its Galaxy camera tech if it wants to keep grabbing headlines and the affections of tech aficionados. Alternatively, the Galaxy S9 could borrow some of the dual camera tech seen in the Galaxy Note 8.
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