The launch of the Samsung Galaxy S22 is still many months away, but we’re already hearing rumors about what might be included in the next S series flagship – or rather what might not be included, in the case of the latest tidbit of unofficial information.

South Korean outlet ETNews (via SamMobile) says that there won’t be any 3D time-of-flight (ToF) sensor on board the rear camera on the Galaxy S22 – that’s the sensor that’s often used by phone cameras to measure depth information.

Its absence shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, as it didn’t appear on the Galaxy S21 phones either – but a 3D ToF sensor was used on the Galaxy S20 Ultra, suggesting that Samsung is now happy for its flagship phones to do without this particular piece of technology.
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