After being called out on faking the photos from its Space Zoom feature, Samsung responds.
Every new generation of smartphones has to have a fancy gimmick as a selling point, and one of the key features of Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra was its „Space Zoom“ feature. (It’s also present on the Galaxy S23.) The idea is that the phone has a 100x electronic zoom ability due to the insanely high 200-megapixel resolution of its camera. Using this zoom, you can purportedly take clear photos of objects as distant as Earth’s moon.Image: /u/ibreakphotos on Reddit
Well, anytime a technology company makes a claim that sounds even slightly dubious, you can bet that nerds on the internet are going to take them to task for it. That’s exactly what happened in this case, where a Redditor subjected Samsung’s phone to what we might call an „adversarial“ test, and it failed spectacularly—at least according to Reddit. You can read the full story in our coverage from yesterday.
Today, Samsung has responded to those allegations in an e-mail to Tom’s Guide.
