This month, Apple released the iPhone 14 Pro with a 48-megapixel camera — the highest resolution camera ever in an iPhone. However, the camera also has the flexibility to produce a 12-megapixel image.

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. A few years ago, smartphone cameras were different. In 2017, the Google Pixel 2, Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and Apple iPhone 8 had ...

The rate at which smartphone cameras have been getting better has been slowing down over the last few years. While lens apertures and overall image quality have been changing over the years, the ...

The past few years have seen the term “pixel binning” regularly pop up when talking about smartphone photography. The term doesn’t exactly conjure up excitement, but it’s a feature powering loads of ...

Over the past several weeks, you’ve probably heard the term “binned” when referring to the chips inside the iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo. But what does it mean? In simple terms, “binning” is the process ...

A feature of some camera sensors that combines multiple neighboring camera sensor pixels into one virtual pixel. Commonly, groups of four pixels (2x2) are combined into one. This technique reduces ...