After disappointment with variable focal-length phone cameras, I was sceptical about the Xiaomi 17 Ultra. Turns out I was wrong; it's superb.

With a few notable exceptions, most smartphone cameras zoom either digitally or via a few optical zoom presets. That could soon change, however, as LG Innotek has announced its new Optical Telephoto ...

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 ...

California-based accessory maker Sandmarc has launched a new Tetraprism 72mm Lens for iPhone that adds 3x optical ...

LG may not make smartphones anymore, but it's still building components for them. The company's LG Innotek arm just unveiled a periscope-style true optical zoom camera module with a 4-9 times ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new Crestron 1 Beyond cameras. . Crestron Electronics has launched an all-new 1 Beyond PTZ camera line. Featuring four cameras ...

Apple plans to expand the iPhone 15 Pro Max's tetraprism camera with up to 5x optical zoom to both the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max this year, according to Taiwanese research firm TrendForce.

The iPhone 17 Pro Max will reportedly pack a 48MP tetraprism lens, which would boost the camera zoom functionality and outputted image quality. Both the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max will likely ...

China’s biggest phone makers continue to relentlessly forge ahead with high-spec phones that you may never see in the US.

Nothing Phone (4a) Pro, a mid-range smartphone, attracted attention at this year’s Mobile World Congress when it was ...

In the constant battle to provide consumers the best smartphone camera, one area that Apple has yet to innovate is optical zoom, which could use a so-called "periscope lens." We explain what the ...