This Smartphone Camera Can Zoom Into Your House from a Mile Away

Samsung's new S20 Ultra is moving into "spying" territory. It's pretty much got a built-in telescope.

The new Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra has a 108 megapixel 100x space zoom capability; features a 12 MP ultra-wide and 48 MP telephoto lens and is equipped for 5G . Meaning, it'll give you superpowers to see what someone is reading from quite a distance away. Will this become a tool for peeping Toms and spies? Does the average person need this kind of magnification? Maybe this technology will give us better UFO videos.

One thing's for certain, our personal privacy has just dropped a little.

As a photography enthusiast, I gotta admit, I want one now. It would be interesting to have a pocket sized telephoto lens built into a phone on you at all times.

The Samsung Galaxy S20 cameras will cost from $1000 to $1399 USD and comes in 3 different models:

Galaxy S20

  • Display: 6.2-inch Quad HD+ Infinity-O display
  • Dimensions: 151.7 x 69.1 x 7.9mm, 163g
  • Rear camera: Triple camera with 12MP Ultra Wide, 12MP Wide-angle and 64MP Telephoto lenses; Hybrid optic zoom 3x and super resolution zoom up to 30x
  • Selfie camera: 10MP
  • Processor: 7nm 64-bit Octa-Core processor
  • Memory: 8GB/12GB RAM, 128GB internal storage + MicroSD slot (up to 1TB)
  • Battery: 4,000mAh

Galaxy S20+

  • Display: 6.7-inch Quad HD+ Infinity-O display
  • Dimensions: 161.9 x 73.7 x 7.8mm, 186g
  • Rear camera: Quad camera with 12MP Ultra Wide, 12MP Wide-angle and 64MP Telephoto lenses and DepthVision; Hybrid optic zoom 3x and super resolution zoom up to 30x
  • Selfie camera: 10MP
  • Processor: 7nm 64-bit Octa-Core processor
  • Memory: 12GB RAM, 128GB/512GB internal storage + MicroSD slot (up to 1TB)
  • Battery: 4,500mAh

Galaxy S20 Ultra

  • Display: 6.9-inch Quad HD+ Infinity-O display
  • Dimensions: 166.9 x 76.0 x 8.8mm, 220g
  • Rear camera: Quad camera with 12MP Ultra Wide, 108MP Wide-angle and 48MP Telephoto lenses and DepthVision; Hybrid optic zoom 10x and super resolution zoom up to 100x
  • Selfie camera: 40MP
  • Processor: 7nm 64-bit Octa-Core processor
  • Memory: 12GB/126GB RAM, 128GB/512GB internal storage + MicroSD slot (up to 1TB)
  • Battery: 5,000mAh

Thumbnail photo: An observer captures an image on his smartphone of The Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I as Art Fund and Royal Museums Greenwich launch public appeal to save famous portrait of Elizabeth I at National Maritime Museum on May 23, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Michael Bowles/Getty Images for the Art Fund)


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