The cheap phone market is going through a major shift, and it’s all because of cameras

Annual tech event MWC brings us loads of product launches – we saw 20 new smartphones debut over the course of this year’s week-long event – but when the dust settles, we can take a step back and use the show to chart trends in the smartphone industry. MWC 2022 is the same, and it exemplified a big change in the cheap phone market that we’ve been noticing for a while – and that we hope to see more of in the future. This is the rise of a certain type of camera sensor, which could mean big things for camera phones in the future, especially in bringing great photography power to low-end phones.

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