Rumor: Samsung Galaxy A70S smartphone gets 64-megapixel camera

Samsung is working on an A70S that should be released in the second half of the year. It would be the first smartphone with a 64-megapixel camera sensor, South Korean ETNews reports. Samsung announced the sensor earlier this month.

ETNews does not report any further details about the smartphone, but the name A70S seems to be a derivative of the Galaxy A70. Samsung announced that model in March and it has three cameras on the back: a primary 32-megapixel camera, an ultra-wide-angle camera and a depth sensor.

The 64-megapixel camera is the Isocell Bright GW1, which Samsung presented earlier this month. It can combine information from four pixels into one pixel to make 16-megapixel photos. The camera module can also shoot full HD videos at 480fps. The sensor size is believed to be around 1/1.5″, with pixels measuring 0.8 microns each.

It is unknown if and when other manufacturers will start using the 64-megapixel sensor. This would make the A70S the camera with the most pixels to date. A number of current models have a 48-megapixel camera from Sony or Samsung. The Honor View 20 from Huawei, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 and Mi 9, and the OnePlus 7 phones, among others, have them.

Samsung GW1 sensor