ETNews reports new steps at Apple to improve cameras for future iPhones: media reports company has decided to go ahead with a new “doubled” format for cameras in which the lenses would be distributed horizontally instead of vertically. Several sources call these types of cameras “periscopes” because they duplicate the image they receive in the same way as submarines.
It’s not the first time we’ve heard of this concept, but now Apple is already looking for suppliers to do the first tests. The main advantage of this type of camera is that would increase the optical zoom of the iPhone to different scales, gaining ground in the competition.
Samsung may be the supplier of “periscope cameras”
Another advantage of these lenses is that, being placed vertically, could stop interfering with the thickness of the iPhone and stop “blowing” in the terminal. In return, these would occupy a little more space inside, but we already know that Apple would seek to make room with gestures such as the elimination of the charging port.
For the time being Samsung seems to be the main candidate to become the supplier of these “periscope cameras”, since in 2019 the company acquired the patents of the main manufacturer of the Corephotonics technology. We will see the result of this in the iPhone in a few years, since this is a very early testing phase. The 2021 iPhones should already be in prototype form in the secret Apple Park labs.
