Samsung Galaxy S22 camera leak says one sensor will be missing

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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