A Silicon Valley startup is developing an optical zoom lens unit that’s thin enough to slip inside of a smartphone and won’t protrude when used. DynaOptics has spent two years working on the device, ...

While we’ve been over the debates regarding whether iPhones (or smartphones in general) are serious options for serious ...

The new 48mm add-on attachment provides 16x optical zoom by mounting on to the phone's tetraprism telephoto system.

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One of the top selling points of the new iPhone 7 Plus is its telephoto lens, which lets you get twice as close to the action as the typical smartphone. Other smartphones use a digital zoom to ...

Oppo has held a “Future Imaging Technology Launch Event” online today to make some camera-related announcements, following the reveal of its “next-generation” under-display selfie camera earlier this ...

Some camera features are worth paying for, while others seem to exist exclusively to print big numbers on the box to sway naive buyers. When it comes to zoom — whether on a smartphone or a camera — ...

David is the former Editor-in-Chief of Android Police and now the EIC of Esper.io. He's been an Android user since the early days - his first smartphone was a Google Nexus One! David graduated from ...

All of the best smartphones today have one thing in common: they have excellent cameras. You can get lost in the DxOMark ratings, the industry standard for camera ratings, and gripe at the minutiae of ...