Samsung Electronics is working on a new 13-megapixel camera module with optical image stabilization, an area where Samsung has fallen behind its competitors.
This year has seen smartphone vendors put their cameras front and center in their efforts to make their products stand out from the competition, and that trend seems likely to continue. Samsung's new camera module will go into production in the beginning of next year.
The company has worked to improve the ability to take good pictures in dark conditions while also implementing OIS (optical image stabilization). The latter has become increasingly common on high-end smartphones from the likes of LG Electronics, Nokia and Sony, but it is a feature Samsung's regular smartphones, including the Galaxy S4, lack.
Two camps have formed in the smartphone camera race, with HTC and Apple sticking with lower pixel counts, while Nokia has launched the 41-megapixel Lumia 1020 and Sony the Xperia Z1 with a 21-megapixel camera.
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