The smartphone market has, for the most part, reached maturity, with not much room left for improvement in the basic form factor. Of course, Apple is expected to launch the iPhone Fold next year, with analysts hoping that Apple's pivot towards foldables might finally push this form factor out of the niche category and into the mainstream.

Even so, the foldable tech has been on the market for almost a decade now, and lacks the requisite oomph factor for delivering a truly differentiated product. Against this backdrop, smartphone OEMs, including Apple, are increasingly pivoting towards next-gen camera tech to create differentiation. And, Samsung might finally have an answer to this differentiation conundrum.

Samsung is working on a global shutter-level high-definition image sensor, and App

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