The new 200MP Sony sensor may challenge Samsung’s best camera hardware.
We first heard that Sony was working on its first 200MP camera sensor back in March. It appears the company is almost ready to shake up the high-end smartphone world, as the specifications of that sensor have been leaked.
Seen as an alternative to Samsung’s top-tier main camera sensors, the Sony IMX09E might measure 1/1.12-inch with 0.7µm pixels, according to information shared (source in Chinese) by tipster Digital Chat Station. The new sensor may be built on a 22nm process and stand above Sony’s LYT-900 sensor.
If that’s true, the new sensor will be smaller than the LYT-900, found on devices such as the Oppo Find X8 Ultra and Xiaomi 15 Ultra. However, the IMX09E specs shared by Digital Chat Station include over 100 dB dynamic range, which would be based on Sony’s Hybrid-Frame HDR technology. The sensor may also be capable of providing up to a 4x lossless zoom when paired with the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 (or Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5) chipset.
