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Apple may use Samsung for iPhone cameras, ending longtime Sony run


It may mean a better ultrawide camera.

The phones are expected to use a Samsung-made “1/2.6-inch 48MP ultra-wide CMOS image sensors” starting “as early as 2026,” according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Although Apple doesn’t usually talk about who makes its components, CEO Tim Cook said in 2022 that Sony had been its iPhone camera supplier for more than 10 years. And assuming the lens would go on a Pro phone (which isn’t a given, considering recent rumors of a single-camera iPhone 17 “slim” phone), it would greatly benefit the Vision Pro’s stereoscopic “spatial” videos, which are created by the ultrawide and main lens working in tandem.

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