Samsung is reportedly working on a continuous zoom camera system for smartphones. This tech will apparently be supplied to Chinese brands first, with Samsung Electronics following later. This would ...

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 ...

The periscope-style cameras provide a lot of room for clear photos taken with its optical zoom, and one of Oppo's AI features even improves digital zoom. Sareena was a senior editor for CNET covering ...

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 ...

Higher-end phones are getting more options to take photos at a wide range of zoom settings, thanks to creative use of high-resolution sensors. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Not everyone wants to carry around a bulky camera with a huge lens – and they never did. But there are inevitably times when ...