Virtually all Android phones have preset zoom buttons in the camera app. For example, the Google Pixel 9 offers 0.5x, 1x, and 2x levels while the Pro models have an extra button for 5x zoom thanks to ...

Most mobile phones set the 23 - 27mm focal length to 1x (1.0x). Thus, the super wide-angle is 0.4x, 0.5x, 0.6x, and the medium telephoto is 2.0x, 3.0x, 5.0x... But this brings about two basic ...

Samsung is reportedly working on a continuous zoom camera system for smartphones. This tech will apparently be supplied to Chinese brands first, with Samsung Electronics following later. This would ...

The Canon PowerShot Zoom doesn’t neatly fit into any specific category. It’s sort of a camera, though Canon doesn’t call it that. It’s sort of a monocular, though it has an electronic viewfinder and ...

The periscope-style cameras provide a lot of room for clear photos taken with its optical zoom, and one of Oppo's AI features even improves digital zoom. Sareena was a senior editor for CNET covering ...

Following up on our Galaxy S22 hands-on first look at Samsung's newest flagships, which the company unveiled during its Galaxy Unpacked event last week, we've been putting the two higher end SKUs ...

Home security cameras are usually pretty basic when it comes to their optical hardware, with a middling resolution that uses digital zoom to get the job done and either a constant power source or a ...

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra will ship with an unchanged zoom camera. We’re talking about a periscope telephoto camera here, as it will be identical to the one on the Galaxy S25 Ultra. A larger camera ...