New Galaxy S23 Ultra selfie camera and folded zoom sensor details leak out

Samsung is preparing to release the best camera set it has ever put in a phone this side of the Galaxy K Zoom that was released way back in 2014 and featured 10x optical magnification mechanism akin to the real compact point-and-shoot cameras of yesteryear. Yes, we are talking about the Ultra model in the Galaxy S23 series with a few new camera sensor details that just leaked out.

The Galaxy S23 Ultra zoom and ultrawide sensors

The Galaxy S23 Ultra selfie camera, an upgrade or a downgrade?

Here the rumors become tricky. Instead of the 40MP selfie camera that Samsung is using since the Galaxy S21 Ultra, the report says that the camera will have lower resolution. One time it says that the “Galaxy S23 Ultra is to have four cameras on its back; 200MP main, 12MP ultra-wide, 10MP telephoto, and 10MP folded zoom telephoto,” while the “front camera will be 12MP,” then later when talking about its sensor manufacturers it casually mentions that “for the front 10MP camera, Namuga and Powerlogics are the suppliers.”

This leaves us a bit perplexed whether or not the Galaxy S23 Ultra will come with a brand new selfie camera. The 10MP front camera resolution is somewhat explicable if the heretofore 40MP selfie shooter on the Galaxy S22 Ultra is used in Samsung’s Tetrapixel binned mode that collates four adjacent pixel to create one big virtual to collect more light. The 12MP resolution, however, would be a new development and would suggest larger physical pixels. 

In both cases we may be looking at jolly new selfie camera development for the Galaxy S23 Ultra which only leaves us salivating about the real thing and hoping that more information will trickle down the proverbial rumor mill in the next two months leading up to its announcement.