Samsung releases the very first 0.7μm-pixel camera for slim full-display phones!

In  South Korea, Samsung has just unveiled the very first 0.7μm-pixel sensor in the world, it is a super slim 43.7MP camera designed for slim full-display smartphones.

0.7μm-pixel camera! WILD!

A super-slim 43.7MP came for slim full-display smartphones

The image sensor dubbed as the Samsung ISOCELL Slim GH1 uses the advanced ISOELL Plus technology to make this feat possible.

Samsung said that despite its tiny size, the camera sensor's new pixel isolation technology can minimize color cross-talk and optical loss.

The company even added that its 0.7μm pixels can absorb sufficient light information to produce bright and vivid photographs.

It could also perform well in low light. How? The GH1 makes use of pixel-merging Tetracell technology that enables higher light sensitivity equivalent to that of a 1.4μm-pixel image sensor.

Moreover, it has an ability to record at 4K (3840 x 2160) resolution at 60 frames per second (fps) with minimal loss in the field of view (FoV). It doesn't have a hard image crop found on other camera sensors.

For sharper photos and videos, it also has gyro-based electronic image stabilization (EIS) and a high-performing phase detection auto-focus technology, Super PD to allow fast and accurate autofocus.

There's a real-time high dynamic range (HDR) feature that delivers more balanced exposure and richer color even in mixed-light environments as well.

Samsung has been stepping up in pixel technology innovation from the industry’s first 1.0μm-pixel image sensor, to most recently, 0.8μm ultra-high-resolution sensors at 64MP and 108MP, said Yongin Park, executive vice president of the sensor business at Samsung Electronics. We are pleased to deliver yet another breakthrough with the industry’s first 0.7μm pixel image sensor, the ISOCELL Slim GH1 that will enable sleeker and more streamlined designs as well as excellent imaging experiences in tomorrow’s smartphones.

The new Samsung ISOCELL Slim GH1 is expected to go on mass production by the end of 2019.

Most likely, we will see it on full-screen phones by early next year.

Source: Samsung