Samsung is reportedly making tweaks to the camera tech inside the S30 as it tries to catch up to Apple.
With the Galaxy Note 20 now out in the wild, we can turn our attention to the next flagship due to arrive from Samsung – namely the Galaxy S30. According to reports, a key decision about the on-board camera technology has already been made. Sources speaking to The Elec have indicated that the Galaxy S30 series camera won’t have a time-of-flight (ToF) sensor on board, as the Galaxy S20 Plus and S20 Ultra do: that’s the sensor that uses infrared light to measure how far away objects in a scene are, enabling portrait blur effects as well as more accurate augmented reality (AR) renderings. The reason is two-fold, apparently. One, Samsung thinks it’s too far behind Apple at the moment to be able to compete; and two, it doesn’t see any compelling AR experiences out there for consumers to make use of.
