Pictures and movies captured by the Samsung Galaxy S23 telephones might be considerably higher sooner or later: there are rumors of a brand new replace arriving within the close to future that can increase digicam efficiency and repair a number of bugs.

This comes from well-respected tipster Ice Universe (opens in new tab) (through PhoneArena (opens in new tab)), who says that the “digicam optimization” replace shall be a “massive” one. The identical supply has beforehand highlighted perceived issues in HDR efficiency on the Galaxy S23.

Within the pursuits of steadiness, we must always level out that we had been fairly happy with the S23 cameras – the Galaxy S23 scored 4/5 for its cameras in our evaluate, whereas the Galaxy S23 Extremely recorded an excellent higher 4.5/5 in our testing.

Can Samsung repair it?

As our critiques present, these are clearly telephones with nice cameras, though quite a lot of points have been reported on Reddit (opens in new tab). It is troublesome to ascertain how widespread these issues are, although they actually appear to be affecting some customers.

In the intervening time it is not clear precisely what enhancements and fixes the rumored replace goes to carry, however for those who’ve been noticing subpar outcomes from your personal Galaxy S23 handset, the approaching software program patch is likely to be sufficient to repair them.

The Galaxy S23 and the Galaxy S23 Plus are each fitted with a triple-lens 50MP+12MP+10MP rear digicam and a 12MP selfie digicam on the entrance. The Galaxy S23 Extremely has the identical selfie digicam, however contains a quad-lens 108MP+12MP+10MP+10MP digicam module on the again.

Evaluation: fashionable telephones are by no means completed

Whether or not it is Android 13 or iOS 16, we’re now used to annual software program updates rolling out for our smartphones – updates that add new options and performance whereas smoothing out bugs and glitches, so our handsets get extra succesful over time.

That is now prolonged to cell images as properly, as this new leak exhibits. Nothing adjustments by way of the bodily {hardware} fitted contained in the Galaxy S23 or another smartphone, however tweaks to the underlying code can imply that pictures and movies find yourself trying higher than ever earlier than.

It is a signal of the computational images that smartphones are actually able to: it is not simply concerning the quantity of data captured by the digicam lenses, it is also about how that data is processed and refined to provide an finish end result. That processing could be improved with software program updates.

In case your cellphone digicam is not supplying you with pictures and movies that you simply’re completely proud of, an alternative choice is to dive into the numerous free modifying apps which might be obtainable on cell – not least the default Google Pictures and Apple Pictures choices.

• We have already began occupied with the Samsung Galaxy S24