Samsung’s Galaxy S20 Ultra wasn’t the first phone to feature a periscopic telephoto lens — both Huawei and Oppo beat the ...

Android phones are bound to have plenty of silly fads, but the telephoto extender trend in particular has me excited for the ...

What is a periscope camera? Short answer: not a submariner snapping photos through the vessel's pop-up spy tube. Actual answer: an ingenious solution to getting a (relatively) long focal length into a ...

Along with the new lens, the Chinese tech company also teased a new image processing pipeline and a fast shutter camera for action shots. Chinese upstart tech brand Tecno had itself quite an ...

A leaker has claimed that Apple is testing an add-on lens for its iPhones. But why hasn't Samsung adopted this just yet?

You may want to hold off on buying a Samsung Galaxy S26 when it launches next year, as Samsung apparently has big plans for future phone cameras. This takes the form of a continuous optical zoom ...

Mark has almost a decade of experience reporting on mobile technology, working previously with Digital Trends. Taking a less-than-direct route to technology writing, Mark began his Android journey ...

Vivo’s newest Ultra smartphone, the X200 Ultra, has a very impressive camera system on its own: a triple 50-megapixel lens array with (relative in the mobile space) large sensors and fast aperture. By ...

A 240mm add-on lens promises serious telephoto power for your phone – but modern smartphone zoom tech makes this a tougher ...

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 ...