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Samsung’s new ISOCELL Plus camera tech to offer better, brighter photos

The Samsung Galaxy S9.

  • Samsung’s new ISOCELL Plus camera sensors look set to deliver better color accuracy and light sensitivity in smartphone photos.
  • The company has replaced the metal barriers between pixels with barriers made out of a new material.
  • Samsung says the new technology will also result in improved super-resolution mobile cameras.

Samsung‘s ISOCELL technology is a common fixture in smartphone sensors, but has just announced its brand-new ISOCELL Plus technology. This tech promises improved color accuracy and better light sensitivity from upcoming smartphone cameras.

In current ISOCELL camera sensors, a physical metal barrier is laid down between pixels in order to “reduce color cross-talk,” Samsung explains on its website. The metal barrier has a side-effect of absorbing or reflecting incoming light, leading to reduced photo quality, it says.

The ISOCELL Plus technology replaces that metal barrier with a new material developed by Fujifilm, improving photo quality by reducing reflection/absorption. More specifically, Samsung is claiming a 15 percent improvement in light sensitivity and higher color fidelity.

Higher resolution cameras to see benefits

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ISOCELL Plus sensors will also be a boon for higher resolution cameras. In fact, the Korean company said the tech would allow for 0.8 micron and smaller pixels. This therefore makes it ideal for “super-resolution cameras with over 20 megapixels,” which usually have small pixels.

Most high-resolution smartphone cameras traditionally excel during the day but falter at night. Better night-time snaps can be accomplished with a large image sensor (increasing the phone’s thickness), pixel-binning (delivering brighter but lower-resolution snaps) or a dual-camera setup. The new Samsung technology potentially opens the door for another solution, without sacrificing size or resolution.

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The light-boosting technology could also be a plus for telephoto cameras, which generally suffer in low light due to their smaller apertures. It probably won’t lead to game-changing quality at night, but it could still be an improvement over current telephoto zoom cameras.

Samsung is showing off the tech at Mobile World Congress Shanghai (running from today until June 29) but it hasn’t announced when the first phones with ISOCELL Plus sensors will launch. With the technology completed, though, it can’t be long before it’s commercialized.

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Google Lens makes its way to the Xperia XZ2/XZ2 Compact’s camera app

Sony Xperia XZ2

  • Sony announced Google Lens integration in the Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact’s default camera app.
  • The Xperia XZ2 Premium will also feature Lens in the camera app.
  • During Google I/O 2018, Google announced that itself and other companies will integrate feature Lens in their smartphones’ default camera apps.

Available within Google Photos for most Android smartphones, Google Lens is available in the Sony Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact’s default camera app.

According to Sony, all you have to do is update the Google app in the Play Store and Lens should show up as a new mode in the camera app. Sony also mentioned that the upcoming XZ2 Premium will also feature Lens in its camera app out of the box, with no update required.

Once you select Lens on the Xperia XZ2 or XZ2 Compact, you should see the redesigned UI that showed up in the most recent update. Along with the refreshed visuals, Lens now features real-time search that automatically loads results as you pan to different objects, copies and pastes text from real-world objects, and identifies articles of clothing and furniture.

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The good news is that you do not have to own one of Sony’s latest smartphones for easier access to Lens. During its developer conference, Google announced that itself, LG, Motorola, Xiaomi, HMD Global/Nokia, OnePlus, Asus, and other manufacturers will eventually get Lens in the default camera app.

Lens in the camera app works as it does in Google Assistant. You can use it to identify landmarks, products, animals, plants, and text, copy and paste text from real-world objects, add events to your calendar, add contact information, and more.