The South Korean tech giant Samsung has revealed its plans to develop denser batteries and slimmer camera sensors that will allegedly be used by smartphones within 2017. Though there are a couple of years for this to happen, it seems like it will be worth it.
If the firm accomplishes these plans as it intended to, the individual camera and battery components and smartphones from Samsung will be much more efficient and thinner. The current battery tech of Samsung has an energy density of 700 Wh/l and it is expected to increase to 750 Wh/l by the end of the next year. The same is believed to increase to 780 Wh/l by the end of the year 2017.
Eventually, the batteries of the same capacities will be much thinner and will have increased energy density. This will help the firm produce thinner devices without the necessity to skimp the battery capacity.
Samsung is also expected to increase the voltage of the battery enabling the firm to reach a voltage of 4.40 V in the coming months. By 2017, the voltage of the battery is likely to reach 4.5 V. Samsung is also aiming to enhance the fast charging technology and it is in hopes to charge the battery up to 80 percent in 30 minutes by the end of 2017.
When it comes to the camera segment, Samsung is expecting its forthcoming sensors to feature a smaller pixel size of 1 micron from 1.12 microns. This improvement will result in a 23 percent decrease in the thickness. For instance, a 16 MP sensor’s size will be reduced from 6.5 mm to 5 mm and that of a 13 MP sensor will reduce from 5.2 mm to 4.5 mm.
Though there is a possibility for Samsung to risk the quality of the pixel size it is not a new idea. Both Nokia and Sony have already come up with a process called pixel binning in their premium cameras. Samsung could adopt this process for its new sensors.
Samsung is also in works on a new RWB (red white blue) camera sensor for its smartphones that is believed to provide better color fidelity in photos. Samsung will take time to develop its ideas and bring them into fruition till 2017. It is definite that we can see a great progress in the smartphones’ battery capacity and camera sensors.
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