It is likely that with the launch of the new Galaxy S20 several questions come to mind. Most of these questions may be related to the camera, as it is one of the most important incentives to buy it. You may have wondered about the need to have 108 megapixels in the camera of the Galaxy S20 Ultra, or if it is worth spending the almost 1,400 euros it costs having other devices with this amount of MP. Thanks to Ice Universe, we can answer one of the most talked-about issues since the launch of the Galaxy S20.
No, the 108-megapixel camera is not the same in the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 as in the Galaxy S20 Ultra. Having the same amount of megapixels does not make your cameras the same. Both devices have this amount of MP, but their sensors are not the same. And most importantly, technologies are implemented differently.
Galaxy S20 Ultra vs Xiaomi Mi Note 10: This is how your photos look
At the moment the Galaxy S20 are not for sale in any country in the world. They can only be reserved to receive them during the first week of March. This means that there are not too many examples of the photographs that these Samsung terminals can take.
Ice Universe has been in charge of publishing several sample photographs to show the differences between the 108 megapixels of the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 and the Galaxy S20 Ultra. You can see these differences in the image you are seeing just below these words.
Yes, there is a difference. And yes, both cameras are 108 megapixels. Why it shows so much? It is a question that goes beyond the amount of MP of the sensor and that is related to the technologies used by each company.
They only look alike in megapixels, the rest is different
While the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 uses the Samsung HMX sensor, the new Galaxy S20 Ultra features an ISOCELL HM1. They are different sensors and the most advanced is the HM1 of the Galaxy S20 Ultra. This is one of the differences, but not the only one.
The Xiaomi uses Pixel Binning 4 in 1 technology, while the Galaxy S20 Ultra uses this same technique with a 9 in 1. The result is a 2.4-micron sensor that captures much more information than the sensor used by Xiaomi.
These details, together with the image processing of each company leaves us with an abysmal difference between one camera and another. If someone tells you that these two cameras are the same because they have the same megapixels, you know that this is not the case.