Motorola seems to be pulling out all stops to ensure it gets its camera capabilities just right. Only that would explain a 200MP sensor on their upcoming phone.
Motorola posted an image teasing their phone on Weibo. In fact, Motorola teased two phones. One with a 200MP lens, set to launch in July in China and the other a foldable device (possibly the Motorola Razr 3) with the new Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chip.
With few details on the phones, Lenovo’s General Manager posted an image on Weibo with the massive lens. With the codename “Frontier,” this phone has been leaked a couple of times in recent months. According to WinFuture, the phone’s main camera will reportedly be using Samsung’s 200MP sensor that was announced last year. This might be paired with a 50MP ultrawide lens, a 12MP telephoto lens and a 60MP front camera. If true, these are big ticket specs and we wonder if camera enthusiasts even need a phone with a 200MP lens.
When smartphones use such high resolutions, it’s rare that they will produce high megapixel images — phones end up combining pixels in a process called “pixel binning” so a 200MP photo will end up in your gallery at around 12 megapixels approximately. 200MP might seem like an overkill but a lot of it also depends on how Motorola processes the image to make it look bright and sharp.
Motorola is pushing its camera limits to the max — 200MP is the maximum single camera resolution that chips like the Snapdragon 888 or the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 support. So we wonder if we will see one of these chipsets in the phone.
A leaked image of Motorola's upcoming Razr 3 (Image credit: 91mobiles / Evan Blass)
Motorola also teased the Razr 3 with a clamshell design, just days after the Motorola Razr 3 was tipped for a major upgrade to take on Samsung’s foldables. It could have some small design upgrades, but the best part is the top of the line Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chip. Motorola will be coming back to the Razr after its last refresh in 2020, but there is no news yet on when it will launch outside of China.
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Both of Motorola’s phones that were teased promise some serious hardware and we can’t wait to get our hands on them to test and come up with reviews.
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