Galaxy S10's front camera has Dual Pixel autofocus!

Last updated: February 20th, 2019 at twenty:xl UTC+01:00

Plenty of leaks and rumors had prepared us for what we can look from the Milky way S10 every bit far as specs and features are concerned, and Samsung'due south official announcement has confirmed an interesting feature for the front end photographic camera. The Galaxy S10e, Milky way S10, and Galaxy S10+ come with Dual Pixel autofocus for the front photographic camera, bringing the biggest upgrade notwithstanding to the selfie game on Samsung flagships.

Samsung introduced autofocus to the front camera with the Galaxy S8, but that had been a software-based thing. It worked well enough, but it was no match for actual hardware-based autofocus that you run across on rear cameras on phones. Dual Pixel phase detection applied science was introduced to the Galaxy lineup with the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge, and while at the time it was merely used in DSLRs, information technology'south quite common in the smartphone world in general these days.

You tin get the technical details on how Dual Pixel technology works on Canon's site here, just simply put, Dual Pixel autofocus is i of the all-time autofocus techniques out in that location, as it allows each of the million pixels in the camera to assist with focusing. Dual Pixel autofocus is extremely fast, and that should mean the Galaxy S10 will be able to focus on your face much faster than we have seen any previous Samsung phone. Forth with the increased megapixel count (10MP), the S10 trio should be considerably amend than previous Galaxy flagships as far as taking selfies is concerned.

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