“Next-generation” Super Res Zoom on the Pixel 7 Pro pushes the 48-megapixel telephoto camera to DSLR-level heights, and Google has shared three sets of samples outside of the keynote. The main ...

All the latest AI camera features in the Google Pixel 9 Pro, Google Photos, and a host of other recently launched phones and devices got me thinking. I quite enjoy some of them and can’t deny the ...

Most mobile phones set the 23 - 27mm focal length to 1x (1.0x). Thus, the super wide-angle is 0.4x, 0.5x, 0.6x, and the medium telephoto is 2.0x, 3.0x, 5.0x... But this brings about two basic ...

Virtually all Android phones have preset zoom buttons in the camera app. For example, the Google Pixel 9 offers 0.5x, 1x, and 2x levels while the Pro models have an extra button for 5x zoom thanks to ...

They're two of the best camera phones on the market, but how do they compete face to face? Let's compare some photos and find out. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the ...

In the constant battle to provide consumers the best smartphone camera, one area that Apple has yet to innovate is optical zoom, which could use a so-called "periscope lens." We explain what the ...

Apple uses prisms to shoehorn a big camera assembly into a thin smartphone. That should help catch up to flagship Android phones. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...