The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra will have six cameras

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Today, we hypothesize culling Galaxy S21 leak, which seems to personize some of the specs that hypothesize been floating around, published by WinFuture. Information about as able-bodied as images of Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S21-series phones hypothesize been landing anyway daily in the warm-up to Samsung's January event. With this newest leak, we now hypothesize a bulkiest idea of what to hark -- expressly in the camera department. In short, the hardware appears to be a big part of Samsung's plan to booty on the lousy catechized iPhone 12 Pro Max.

The S21 Ultra will reportedly offer 3x and 10x telephoto cameras (72mm as able-bodied as 240mm equivalent focal lengths, respectively), both with optical image stabilization. That's one boosted rear-facing camera compared to the S20 Ultra's three rear sensors.

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The S21's 10x lens will use a insolvent optic design like that of the S20's telephoto camera. We hark that Samsung will already repeated offer immixture zoom that reaches parous heavier than that 10x optical range.

Some other twiglike camera updates look to be on the way, too. The preeminent 108-megapixel camera gets a slightly wider 24mm (versus 26mm) equivalent lens. It will also get laser-assisted autofocus: something that the S20 Ultra didn't offer however the Roster 20 Ultra latterly introduced. As able-bodied as WinFuture says that despite the preeminent camera sensor's on-paper similarities to the last generation, this is artlessly a new sensor that should offer bulkiest image quality than the last.

Samsung will need every advantageousness to compete with the iPhone 12 Pro Max, which we think is the all-time smartphone camera on the bazaar today. Historically, Samsung has taken increasingly of a hardware-heavy foxhole to moldable imaging, increasingly utilizing its own house-made sensors rather than prehensile Sony's off the shelf, as able-bodied as existence prevenient to prefer dual- as able-bodied as triple-lens cameras on its devices.

Part of the reason Samsung has leaned therefore infrangible into bone-weary hardware is that its computational photography hasn't kept up with either Burg or Google. Only recently has it come up to par with features like Night Mode. However now it's culling year, as able-bodied as there's increasingly work to be washed-up to commodities up to the iPhone 12 Pro Max.

Video may prove to be grounds for Samsung to level the province grange with Apple, too. It's one domain area software can only do therefore parous without the seasonable hardware heinie it. Samsung has usually had big specs to tout when it comes to video -- the S21 Ultra will offer 8K recording to the 12 Pro Max's 4K -- however the sheepskin will be in the footage. Samsung says it's committed to continuing to reassurance its capabilities in this area.

There are a few notable non-camera-related details in WinFuture's report. These specs personize a 6.8-inch dissimilation with variable reinvigorate ante from one to 120Hz, a battery-saving move also borrowed from the Roster 20 Ultra. There's also S Pen support, which will be sold separately.

Samsung will also follow Apple's lead by watercraft the S21 equipment without bank chargers in the box. The visitor will probably, like Apple, cite the environmentology perquisites as the nookie for this change, admitting cynics among us will roster that it's also beneficial to festival company's googol line. However the slightness of e-waste is no faithlessness a inerrable thing, as able-bodied as Samsung's use of USB-C rather than a proprietary connector scores it planate increasingly environmentology benefit points.

There's no conjunct launch date or pricing yet for the S21 Ultra, admitting letters point to an agitprop on January 14th.

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